Label: La Scie Doree - SCIE2419

クリア・ヴァイナル仕様、大判アートワークのインサート付き。英国の大ベテラン作家であるAndrew Chalkと、同じく大ベテランにしてレーベルLa Scie Doreeの主催者であるベルギーのTimo Van Luijkが長年継続してきたデュオ・プロジェクトElodie。2018年発表のカセットアルバム[Musique En Scene III: La Passion D'Elodie]から2年振りとなる2020年LP作。ゆっくりと浸透する様に美しく静謐な気配が漂い続ける、コンテンポラリーからアンビエント、エレクトロアコースティックまでを内包した説明不要の超傑作。2020年重要タイトル。

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The tremulous, electro-acoustic/ambient beauty ’Le Nid D’Ivoire’ marks the return of Andrew Chalk and Timo Van Luijk’s enchanted Elodie duo to the latter’s La Scie Dorée label. It's an engrossing smudge from oneiric wind, brass, keys and string tones to much gauzier, gently psychedelic scenes over the LP’s spellbinding narrative arc. With intravenous stealth and efficacy ‘Le Nid D’Ivoire’ gets right under the skin and soothes the senses with its glacially unfolding pace and sensuous smoke-curl dynamics. It starts out recalling the soundtrack to a film noir, but ends up ripe to soundtrack scenes of druggy, psychedelic experiments or a slow burning, furtive romance, conjuring heavy-lidded osmosis, letting the soundtrack drift over you during the dying light of a winter afternoon. Where the first side is marbled with wistful melody that wraps us up in its tale, their musical storytelling really comes into its own on the B-side with the title tracks’s tip-of-tongue tremble redolent of everyone from Loren Connors to Akira Rabelais, leading into the elegantly pulsating chamber ambience of ‘Calice et Croix’ before they ultimately transmute into shimmering spiritual resonance with the hyaline strokes of ‘Méridien’ to leave us blissed to bits. (Boomkat)