Laurent Pernice / Jacques Barberi / Dominique Beven - Nine Tales Of The Winds [Psychofon Records 062]

Released via the German Psychofon Records label on July 7th, 2k24 is "Nine Tales Of The Winds", the latest collaborational album effort conceived and cooked up by the musical triumvirate of Laurent Pernice, Jacques Barberi and Dominique Beven. Based upon the concept of pairing original and modified wind instruments from all over the globe with electronic textures and post-production the trio caters a nine tracks and 54 minutes spanning longplayer which opens on a surprisingly groovy and captivating Contemporary Jazz x Future vibe with "Le Silence La Nuit" which might even become a very late night favorite on intimate and musically advanced dancefloors for a reason whereas the subsequent "Ghost Mountains" provides a rather dark, solemn and droning variation of what probably could be best described as Desert Jazz, marking an early favorite on the album, followed by the somewhat arabic x oriental sounding klaxon'esque off-kilter pulses of "Sandanapale" which immediately put the listeners senses in a high alert mode for a reason. Furthermore "Apres le Feu, Tout Resplendit" drifts off into Dark Ambient-leaning melancholia with a rather deep and slightly maritime twist, "Zombies" follows up with intricate harmonic layers of what sound like sustained bagpipe tones even though bagpipes seemingly weren't part of the instrumental setting in the first place before surprisingly turning into a psychotic maelstrom of rumbling tectonic low end shiftings and eerie transmissions from the outerworld whilst "Voices Of Canopee" serves an array of mystical elusive and ever busy flutterings whizzing and bouncing around like small magical creatures from ancient folklore. With the 15+ minutes spanning "Lost Angels" the three musicians cater an amalgamation of tender, fragile rhythms of a well hypnotic, time-dissolving nature and ethereal Ambient atmospheres which provide an excellent match for ChillOut rooms and late night radio transmissions, "Une Pluie Vague Apres La Nuit" brings forth a rather deep ebb and flow of beauteous, enchanted, yet slightly melancholic and (Neo)Cosmic- x Synth-informed Ambient waves whereas the closing cut that is "Les Petits Canards" offers a surprising collage of retrofuturist electronic bleeps, cut-up vocal snippets, echoes of Electronica and Field Recorded bird song for a well curious finale. Quite an intriguing and therefore highly recommended album, this.

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