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(2015) Astrïd - The West Lighthouse Is Not So Far [FLAC,Tracks]
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Review: The West Lighthouse Is Not So Far is the 4th album recorded by Astrïd. The compositions, each titled after a lighthouse, create ambient soundscapes, filled with sparkling details and ornaments, which fluidly move into disturbing moments when strong basslines meet repetitive percussion. The band shows how thin the border is between harmless calm and storms of heavy guitar waves. Their CD has seven lengthy pieces, from six to fourteen minutes and is some musical excursion into the world of post-rock, improvisation and a bit of jazz, all of which is played as though it’s a small ensemble – less rock perhaps, especially in any passages in which rock drums don’t sound. All of this is very moody and atmospheric music, with gentle, harmonious passages of all those keyboards and soaring violin and wind instruments intoning sad melodies. Astrïd is Vanina Andreani (violin, juno, rhodes, crumar, harmonium, metllophone), Yvan Ros (drums, rhodes, harmonium, metallophone), Cyril Secq (guitars, bowed guitars, juno, piano, charango, harmonium) and Guillaume Wickel (clarinets, rhodes, harmonium and saxophone). Recorded and mixed by Cyril Secq at Goulephar Studio in the countryside of Nantes, France, between March 2013 and January 2014.