25.05.08:: live @ le comptoir with an exhibition of Gwenola Carrere
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flake out -- humpty dumpty records, 2008
On 'Flake Out', the Tangtype duet (a girl, a boy, a billion sound possibilities) invites us to a disconcerting and intense journey in the heart of their atypical universe. All along the nine tracks that constitute the album, Tangtype creates a contrasted pop with exploded structures influenced by jazz music, while reconciling electronic experimentation and melody obviousness. The listener finds himself immersed in a landscape with complex but accessible reliefs, raised by organic and watery flows, torned by glitches, shaken by sonic deflagrations.
Around these saturated atmospheres that neither Tim Hecker nor Fennesz would disavow come to join familiar acoustic instruments (violin, percussions) among which the guitar plays an essential part. The sweet and soothing feeling which results from the listening of 'Flake Out' would not be complete without the presence of Julie’s voice, sometimes high pitched, sometimes distilled in a shivering breath. In the middle of atmospheres reminding sometimes Midaircondo, sometimes Davide Balula, Tangtype invite us to have a drink at ‘La reine du Sandwich’ by introducing field-recording or transportes us in the heart of the Konono n°1 tribe thanks to thumbpiano (likembé). No doubt, you won’t regret the trip ! (HMPTY)
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Plop (Japan)
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