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Hemlock Smith & Les Poissons Autistes: Three Times Dead
Si sono incontrati grazie ad una compilation di una rivista svizzera e hanno pensato di fondere i loro percorsi musicali. Ne è uscito fuori un CD, Three Times Dead che è un crocevia di esperienze musicali sospese tra il post rock alla Tortoise, Gastr del Sol, Arab Strap e/o lo spoken word estenuante alla John Aidan Moffat, e l’intimismo sperimentale stile David Sylvian.
E così, accanto all’iniziale e autunnale introspezione di “Birmingham” o “The Man in the Grey Suit”, spuntano fuori i territori sonici e spettrali di “I Rehearse My Death Every Day”, i rigurgiti rumoristici di “The Flat Hands”, “Metaphors” o “The Space Between Us”.
Poi le citazioni letterarie di “If You Had Done More Sports...” con chitarre distorte in lontananza, e qualche altro momento di puro decadentismo sonoro (“Myrta”) completano un CD che si distingue per la capacità di creare suono e ambientazioni, ma forse un po’ troppo etereo per fare rimanere con i piedi a terra la concretezza.
Track Listing
01. Birmingham; 02. I Reharse My Death Every Day; 03. The Flat Hands; 04. The Man In The Grey Suit; 05. Metaphors; 06. If You Had Don More Sports...; 07. Myrta: 08. L’Appallissade; 09. Les Corps Subtils; 10. The Space Between Us.
Personnel
Michael Frei, Stephane Babey, Philippe Simon (piano, voce, tastiere, chitarra, tromba, effetti, laptop, drum machine); Julien Feltin (chitarra elettrica), Roger Duperrez (bird loop).
Album information
Title: Three Times Dead | Year Released: 2008 | Record Label: Everest
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