Le Chat...

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2
EAN: 3473351382038
ASIN: B000071A6R

Release Date: 2002-12-17

Metropolis/Appars/Le Chat...

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Tracks:

Metropolis
Le Chat De Schrodinger
Appars

Album Description

2002 release for the French avant-prog unit features music three tracks, 'Metropolis' (based on the film by Fritz Lang), 'Le Chat De Schrodinger' (music - Gerard Hourbette, Karole Armitage's ballet) & 'Appars' (composed by Kasper T. Toeplitz for electronics & the Musiques Nouvelles ensemble). 150 minutes. Gatefold digipak. In-Possible Records.

Customer Reviews:

Art Zoyd uncompromised.......2005-06-24

This is the second (and still the most recent) recording by Art Zoyd since the departure of Thierry Zaboitzeff and like Ubique, it has few moments of ease or lightness. I'm sure that many fans of the group are still missing "Dr Zab" since he added a bit of humor and playfulness while still maintaining a very high level of compositional excellence.

Having said that, I really like this recording!

With Patricia Dallio (check out her CD "L'Encre Des Voix Secretes")and Kaspar T Toeplitz as co-composers, Gerard Hourbette has created something akin to a soundtrack for the movie Metropolis. In fact, that's exactly how this music is performed in concert. The band play live to support the showing of the film. As fans of the band may be aware, Art Zoyd has been doing this for some time with movies such as Nosferatu, Faust and Haxan. Unfortunately I've never seen the band perform so I can't comment on the effectiveness of this as a concert event, however there is a DVD available of Nosferatu which features their soundtrack music as one of the options. (You can perhaps judge for yourself whether the audio enhances the video or not. I like the music in either case.)

The music on Metropolis is very evocative of the Machine Age updated to the present. The attention to detail in the orchestration of the sounds is staggering. There are many layers to the sound which open up on repeated listenings and - despite the overall "darkness" on the surface, the music crackles with a kind of brilliance.

The propulsive opener (composed by Dallio) piles one mechanistic rhythm on top of another until the whole thing is grooving like a train with a genius for polyrhythms! Each piece uses many interlocking meters to create a very complex polyphonic texture with multiple layers of activity going on simultaneously.

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