Debut album of this extraordinary French band (here still 2Bis and not Alpes), firmly led by the brain duo Catherine Ribeiro (vocals and author of all lyrics) and Patrice Moullet (guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, inventor of instruments like the Cosmophone, half guitar and half lyre, and composer of all the music). Here Ribeiro and Moullet are still on more singer-songwriter/folk coordinates compared to the more experimental/prog/spacepsych expansions of the '70s, the arrangements are quite sparse and minimal, pure accompaniment to Ribeiro's vocal performance, strong, magnetic, and charismatic. Ribeiro's lyrics, well, you don't need to be an expert in French to understand that the vibe is quite angry, quite polemical and the style is that of modern electro-acoustic folk protest singer-songwriter, Ribeiro writes and sings (a lot, there's a bit of verbosity) like in the best streams of consciousness of singer-songwriters, with the added virtuosity of her exceptional voice, which is sweetness and anger, bel canto and raucous screams, theatricality, cartoon whistles, and shamanic hallucinatory declamations, anathema and laughter (certainly not joyful, but derisive and mocking, or anger also). The only track where the stage is left to Moullet and the other musicians is "Voyage 1" which instead directly embarks on the pat… more

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