Manuel Bienvenu, ten years after his latest Amanuma LP, and five since Glo, is back in full grace and elegance.
Multi-instrumentalist from Paris, here backed by an international talented cast of collaborators, he shares a tracklist of new songs which read joyfulness through a whispered charm, in an amalgam of easy listening and creative dynamics.
Oh Do We is methodically beautiful, skillfully orchestrated. It's like the sound of a mosaic, or like making mosaically a music tune, such it's rich of details. Dark Polychrome speaks these figures. Dissipation would make the day of every Stereolab fan. This song is huge. Like being cradled on melancholy and sweetness through space-age pop arrangements (Minorton), watching an European film of the 60s. Armando Trovajoli anyone? Pure poetry and lyricism. That taste for beauty. Here Comes tingles with a broody romance tell, vibrating and enthralling, with Bienvenue's subtle voice embraced by female backing vocals and an emotional drum backbeat. Nureta Bara (濡れた バラ), 'soaked rose', sung in Japanese, lead female vocals by vibraphonist Tomoko Yoshino, words by Bienvenu's daughter Amande, is a high point among jazz and indie pop. Captivating and exciting.
An imaginative and melody-driven record indeed.
Multi-instrumentalist from Paris, here backed by an international talented cast of collaborators, he shares a tracklist of new songs which read joyfulness through a whispered charm, in an amalgam of easy listening and creative dynamics.
Oh Do We is methodically beautiful, skillfully orchestrated. It's like the sound of a mosaic, or like making mosaically a music tune, such it's rich of details. Dark Polychrome speaks these figures. Dissipation would make the day of every Stereolab fan. This song is huge. Like being cradled on melancholy and sweetness through space-age pop arrangements (Minorton), watching an European film of the 60s. Armando Trovajoli anyone? Pure poetry and lyricism. That taste for beauty. Here Comes tingles with a broody romance tell, vibrating and enthralling, with Bienvenue's subtle voice embraced by female backing vocals and an emotional drum backbeat. Nureta Bara (濡れた バラ), 'soaked rose', sung in Japanese, lead female vocals by vibraphonist Tomoko Yoshino, words by Bienvenu's daughter Amande, is a high point among jazz and indie pop. Captivating and exciting.
An imaginative and melody-driven record indeed.
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