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Melodium - La Tête Qui Flotte (2005), Wv - Indie Electronic/Folk Rock

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Posted: 21-04-2006, 19:04 (post 1, #588998)

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Melodium - La Tete Qui Flotte (2005)

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Review

‘Melodium never plays live’ announces the Autres Directions website. Listening to the latest offering from Laurent Girard, it is certainly a shame to see his beautifully complex and extremely detailed blend of acoustic-infused electronica confined to the realm of recorded music, and one is left dreaming of what it would be like to suddenly animate these fragile mobiles.

The first signs of Melodium began to appear at the turn of the century, slowly infiltrating the electronic scene with a couple of seven inch singles published on Static Caravan between 1999 and 2001, and a debut album, Quietnoisearea, released on Disasters By Choice that same year. More EPs and compilation appearances followed on labels such as Active Suspension and Grounded Records, leading to a second album, A Possible Way Of Spending Time (Peter I’m Flying, 2002). By the time Girard released his third album, A Slight Difference In The Air Pressure (Disasters By Choice, 2003), he had already firmly established his sound and appeared more assured with each record. That same year, Melodium teamed up with French web label Autres Directions In Music to publish a nine-track, download-only EP, Parthenay, and recorded his fourth album, Anaemia, released on American label Audiodregs.

With La Tête Qui Flotte, first full CD released from Autres Directions, Melodium abandons the slightly dark tones of Anaemia to explore once again an incredibly varied and pertinent sonic palette, which incorporates acoustic and classical guitars, found sounds, flutes, xylophone, electronics, harps, melodica, and for the first time, vocals. Putting himself in the limelight on three songs (Hellomusic, Kill Me With A Smile and La Fin De Tout), Girard also relies on contributions from his friend and Autres Directions artist Dudley (Les Psychotropes Sont Mes Amis, Puis Mes Ennemis and Le Creux Est Ma Matière Première) and his niece Laïs-Salomé Massoussi (La Chanson De Laïs-Salomé) while his girlfriend makes a discreet apparition at the end of La Fin De Tout.

Assembling his precise little vignettes with infinite care, Laurent Girard builds here a series of evocative pieces, each with a specific tone, yet all intricately related. If this album denotes a slight change of direction, Melodium builds up on previous recordings and cleverly adjusts his soundscapes. Although very sophisticated, his music often appears deceptively simple and straight-forward, and the pop shine given to some of these compositions helps making this is most accessible record to date.
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Label: Autres Directions In Music
Catalog#: moulin013
Format: CD
Country: France
Released: 27 Apr 2005
Genre: Indie Electronic
Style: IDM, Folk Rock, Indie Electronic
Credits: Mastering - Atone (2) (tracks: 1-15)
Notes: Dudley performs Guitar and Electronics on 'Les Psychotropes Sont Mes Amis, Puis Mes Ennemis...'.
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Track Title

1 Hellomusic (4:06)
2 Les Psychotropes Sont Mes Amis, Puis Mes Ennemis... (3:46)
Vocals - Dudley
3 Se Rayer Provisoirement De La Liste Des Vivants (3:33)
4 Kill Me With A Smile (3:36)
5 Emptykuerten (3:36)
6 Le Creux Est Ma Matière Première (3:34)
Featuring - Dudley
Vocals - Dudley
7 L’Attachement Aux Symptômes (3:42)
8 Mon Baromètre Mental (2:51)
9 Interlude Pour Dépressifs (2:08)
10 Gamm-recomposé (4:56)
11 Marcher A L’Envers Dans Nantes-Atlantique (2:28)
12 Greg Davis > Craig David (1:32)
13 La Chanson De Laïs-Salomé (1:19)
Vocals - Laïs-Salomé Massoussi
14 La Fin De Tout (2:46)
Vocals - Violaine Barbault
15 La Vie Est Plus Belle Depuis... (2:40)

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This post has been edited by germe on 21-04-2006, 19:05

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