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Orkney: Symphony Of The Magnetic North (The Magnetic North) #NNR7
This album is at once as monumental as a menhir and as intimate as the unspoken. Each mound speaks to every inch of skin, each wave to every thought, each note to every step, and the whole delights the heart just as much as the mind. It is grand and beautiful, subtle and deeply human. Perfectly unclassifiable, with its classical elements blended with electronic music and the folk sounds of the vast northern moors, "Orkney: Symphony Of The Magnetic North" takes its place here
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Orkney: Symphony Of The Magnetic North (The Magnetic North) #NNR7
This album is at once as monumental as a menhir and as intimate as the unspoken. Each mound speaks to every inch of skin, each wave to every thought, each note to every step, and the whole delights the heart just as much as the mind. It is grand and beautiful, subtle and deeply human. Perfectly unclassifiable, with its classical elements blended with electronic music and the folk sounds of the vast northern moors, "Orkney: Symphony Of The Magnetic North" takes its place here
7 days ago3 min read
Twentythree (Tristan Prettyman) #NNR6
At just 23 years old, displaying maturity in both her lyrics and harmonies, Tristan Prettyman doesn’t set out on this upcoming album, "Twentythree", to come across as cool or laid-back; she simply aims to convey her feelings with disarming simplicity and ease, a quality that could have made this a defining album for a generation. Her voice, by turns dynamic and fragile, and her seemingly accessible compositions still strike a chord now, because they speak to a world before In
Nov 63 min read
Street scenes (David Sanchez) #NNR5
In the mid-1990s, New Yorker David Sanchez, following many years of the Young Lions alongside Wynton Marsalis and a return to acoustic roots, captured in his “Street Scenes” series what an entire generation was trying to convey about the contemporary world around them: the interplay of cultures, tensions, loneliness, but also unexpected, even incredible, encounters, and moments of poetry, for those who take the time to listen, watch, and feel. Give it a listen!
Nov 53 min read
Beaurivage (David Grumel) #NNR4
In “Beaurivage,” David Grumel has allowed a wide variety of influences to find their way into his work and blend together, in a sort of intimate confession that reflects his state of mind, one that flirts here with electro, as well as soul and almost funky jazz. This diversity of musical approaches maintains its coherence throughout "Beaurivage" and gives the album its full legitimacy.
Nov 42 min read
Zerøspace (Kidneythieves) #NNR3
In the style of Anne Rice, who succeeded in rehumanizing the mythical vampire, bringing his situation, that of an immortal endowed with “a heart” yet doomed to watch all those he loves die, to its tragic peak, the Kidneythieves, through their incorporation of other electronic genres, will breathe life into rock at the dawn of this new millennium, a rock with existential undertones, at times monumental, or hypnotic or even ethereal, in which Free sings of loneliness and misund
Nov 33 min read
Genetic World (Télépopmusik) NNR#2
"Genetic World" is a masterfully crafted window into the complexity of this new world, quantum, genetic, and electronic, which the French band Télépopmusik sought to make creative, poetic, and human. Twenty-five years later, we are coming to terms with its ironic fate, amid ongoing ethical debates and in the midst of a world marked by neglect, violence, and dehumanization.
Nov 23 min read
Troublegum (Therapy?) NNR#1
By breaking away from the ubiquitous grunge scene, Therapy? manages to deliver a blend of metal and alternative rock that possesses both the urgency of punk and the effectiveness of popfrom which it borrows, for this album, the melodic sensibility that sets it apart from its earlier, rawer works, which were more in the vein of The Jesus Lizard or Big Black. Yet "Troublegum" rises to the challenge of a unique sonic fusion while retaining a constant feverish energy and an elect
Nov 13 min read
No November rain : 30 days, 30 albums !
To resist the melancholy and gloom of November, which promises to be as gray and depressing as the world news, the remedy lies in our ability to celebrate energy, life, our resilience, and our ability to build the future while learning from the past, all while rejecting the dictates of fast consumption, whose impermanence breeds a sense of disconnection among people, even in sound? During this time, we’ll pick one album a day, let it sink in, and share it with you.
Nov 12 min read
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