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| | Artist : The Alps | |
| | Album : Le Voyage | |
| | Label : Type Records Source : WEB MP3 | |
| | Cat. No. : TYPE056 Size : 102.39 MB | |
| ª Genre : Psychedelic/Folk/Electronica StrDate: 2010-05-00 ª |
ª _ Quality : 320kbps/44.1khz/Joint Stereo RipDate: 2010-05-05 _ ª
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| | *Beautiful new album from The Alps, capturing a sense of pastoral | |
| | wonder reminiscent of 1970's psychedelia and the widescreen | |
| | exuberance of Serge Gainsbourg and Jean-Claude Vannier's renowned | |
| | work together, all offset by experimental vignettes influenced by | |
| | GRM's musique concrΦte archive and the Radiophonic Workshop* | |
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| | Reunited for a fourth full-length together, Tarentel's Jefre | |
| | Cantu-Ledesma once again joins forces with Alexis Georgopoulos of | |
| | ARP and Scott Hewicker of Troll. While their last album cemented | |
| | the trio's position as experts in vintage soundtrack-style | |
| | instrumentals and updated krautrock rhythms, 'Le Voyage' takes a | |
| | more psychedelic route, serving up a series of vignettes that | |
| | could have been plucked straight from the more obscure and | |
| | experimental regions of late '60s and early '70s music. | |
| | Previously, The Alps have conjured references to bands like | |
| | Magma, Goblin and Popol Vuh, and that's a theme carried over | |
| | here, but more pastoral, minimalist influences shine through as | |
| | well, lending opener 'Drop In' a similar feel to the pastoral | |
| | post-rock of Swedish group Tape. The album really kicks in with | |
| | 'Crossing The Sands', whose fluttering acoustic riffs connect | |
| | with pattering toms and wah-wah mauled lead lines for a first | |
| | glimpse at the kind of wild, improv-threatening psych manoeuvres | |
| | that recurs throughout the album (coming to a head on the | |
| | title-track's immense ten-minute space-rock epic). The album's | |
| | centrepiece 'St. Laurent' provides a massive highlight, evoking | |
| | Serge Gainsbourg and Jean-Claude Vannier's work together, whilst | |
| | deploying dual fuzz guitars redolent of Brian Eno's 'Another | |
| | Green World'. The astoundingly crisp production and engineering | |
| | comes across beautifully, really highlighting how much this | |
| | record sounds like it's been plucked from another era. Continuing | |
| | to gaze back forty years or so, a couple of raga-inspired pieces | |
| | arrive towards the close of the album: 'Black Mountain' throws | |
| | together sitars, lapsteel slides and meandering modal piano, | |
| | while last track 'Telepathe' underlines the power of the band's | |
| | incredible bass tones - somehow capturing that classic prog feel | |
| | you'd get from Goblin's Fabio Pignatelli or perhaps even Yes' | |
| | Chris Squire (without the flashy runs of course). One of the very | |
| | finest aspects of this record is the selection of diversionary | |
| | miniatures strung between the lengthier, more fully developed | |
| | compositions. On tracks like 'Marzipan' and 'Petals' the group | |
| | reveal their love of early electronics and old tape collages: the | |
| | former captures the mood of a hallucinated grand tour of Europe, | |
| | piling together string quartet recitals with the flow of Alpine | |
| | streams, chattering voices and the occasional soaring jet engine | |
| | - the montage effect of the piece is quite brilliant. 'The Lemon | |
| | Tree' could have been lifted straight from an old GRM musique | |
| | concrΦte archive, layering primordial oscillator tones, | |
| | tape-skewered percussive edits and spiralling piano flourishes. | |
| | Le Voyage is a real feast of a record that requires your | |
| | immediate attention. | |
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| | Tracklisting: | |
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| | 01. Drop In 4:37 | |
| | 02. Marzipan 1:01 | |
| | 03. Crossing The Sands 3:29 | |
| | 04. Petals 0:51 | |
| | 05. St. Laurent 5:21 | |
| | 06. The Lemon Tree 1:54 | |
| | 07. Saturno Contro 3:11 | |
| | 08. Black Mountain 6:02 | |
| | 09. Le Voyage 9:52 | |
| | 10. Telepathe 5:04 | |
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| | 41:22 | |
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ª _ Total: 00:41:22 _ ª
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