Sylvain_Chauveau-Nuage-2007-BCC

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2007-12-14

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Artist  : Sylvain Chauveau
Title   : Nuage
Genre   : Avantgarde
Year    : 2007
Date    : 12/14/2007
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks  : 19
Label   : Type Records
Source  : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length  : 35:25 min
Size    : 42,9 MB


Tracklist:
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01.Pauvre Simon                           01:51
02.L'approche Du Nuage                    02:01
03.Troubles                               01:03
04.Nuage II                               01:19
05.Marianne                               02:12
06.Sympt⌠me N░2                           00:47
07.Sympt⌠me N░1                           00:45
08.Vers Les Montagnes                     01:06
09.L'OrΘe Du Bois                         02:28
10.Le Tunnel                              01:48
11.Marianne (Variation)                   01:52
12.Fly Like A Horse                       04:44
13.Clara Et Simon                         01:17
14.Nuage III                              02:37
15.AndrΘa's Hands                         01:44
16.Staring                                00:38
17.AndrΘa                                 02:48
18.An Old Friend                          01:23
19.AndrΘa's Hands II                      03:02
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                                          35:25 min




From Boomkat:

Fabulous new release from Sylvain Chauveau, this time focussing on his instrumental work and taking the
shape of two soundtracks, both for films by Sebastien Betbeder. Chauveau's work has often straddled
classical composition and contemporary electronics, but this release rests its focus on largely untreated
works for a small ensemble including viola, violin and Chauveau's own piano and electric guitar
performances. The most obvious comparison to make would be to Chauveau's very own Un Autre
Decembre album - there's a similar sense of romanticism and understated melodic drama here, though it
never comes across as overblown or excessive - the small number of personnel and the minimal
arrangements involved maintain a climate of intimacy, while the relatively short durations of the individual
tracks make for a dynamically arresting album. The slow string sweeps of 'Nuages II' are bound to prompt
references to Max Richter's stately first album, The Blue Notebooks (released on the same Fat Cat
subsidiary label as Un Autre Decembre) but there's far less density to these recordings, and certainly, the
minimal keystrokes of 'Symptome No.1' and 'Symptome No.2' progress with a weightlessness and
punctuated phrasing that you wouldn't hear from contemporaries like Richter or Johann Johannsson.
Chauveau is often at his best when performing solo: one of the most memorable melodies on the Nuage
soundtrack is 'L'Oree Du Bois' for solo piano. Similarly, 'Fly Like A Horse' (the longest composition on the
disc) features Chauveau's guitar manipulated into digitally-enhanced Christopher Willits-like shapes, and
this most minimal of pieces turns out to be a clear highlight. Similar sonic elements make up the
soundtrack to Les Mains D'Andrea (a shorter work with fewer individual pieces than Nuage), which brings
the disc to a close with a real sense of unrest and sadness. There's a heaviness to these compositions
that contrasts music in the first half of the disc, but Chauveau's way with melody and his ability to write
miniaturised musical narratives remains equally adept. Gorgeous stuff.

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