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Track Listings
| 1. Mineral |
| 2. Sous tes yeax probablement |
| 3. Granulation 1 |
| 4. Neauf cents Lunes |
| 5. Alors la lumiere vacille |
| 6. Granulation 2 |
| 7. Il fait nuit noire a berlin |
| 8. La letter qu’il n’envoya jamais |
| 9. Granulation 3 |
| 10. Un autre decembre |
| 11. Granulation 4 |
| 12. Du reve dans les yeax |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Sylvian Chauveau's Un Autre Decembre is characterised by space... and lots of it. In the late 1950s, Miles Davis remarked that jazz had "gotten thick, guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them." French pianist/composer Sylvian Chauveau appears to have taken this opinion as gospel. In Un Autre Decembre his compositions of often painful simplicity allow notes and harmony to breath, never playing two notes if one will suffice. As unresolved sequences are left to hang, Chauveau introduces extremely subtle electronics and glitches. These sequences are occasionally given titles of their own, named in true Jean Michel Jarre style "Granulations" 1-4 and named after the software used to create them (Curtis Rhodes' Granular Synthesis). These intermissions can often resemble the sound of windscreen wipers and rain or a late-night train station and the overall result is simple, relaxing and thoughtful.
Sylvian Chauveau has been compared to Yann Tiersen who rose to fame primarily for the Amelie soundtrack, and there is a definite melodic resemblance, especially when he switches from piano to accordion for the final track "Du reve dans les yeux". However, the emptiness that characterises much of the music here is perhaps more akin to Japanese guitarist Taku Sugimoto. This album is certainly one for those in need of some space. --Robert Smoughton.
CD Description
Third album from French contemporary composer with no formal musical training, who cannot read or write musical notation and claims to not even know what notes he is playing. His beautiful, elegant, minimalist pieces for piano, strings, and woodwind are layered and treated with electroacoustic glitches. Inspired by early 20th Century chamber music, musique concrete and new wave cinema, his is a truly modern French music.
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