Wednesday, March 9, 2011

La Blogtheque review!!

Big News!!! One of our all time favorite music blogs did a great review for Willow Be!

Here is the link (if you read French)
http://www.blogotheque.net/Live-Footage-Balmorhea-des-villes

..Translated.. (Crudely)
For Willow Be the first album of Live Footage, like Balmorhea two years ago, is primarily a story of pocket. A sober and elegant design that evokes the fusion of elements, ideograms (or other records of Asian origin) to induce a secret, a treatment rather high-end disk claimed as a self-production ...
And arguments that place the disc on the top of the stack, listening with a priori favor and do not regret it. He was not told that a fully instrumental disc, made of loops and improvisations, described as a surrealist masterpiece, played minimalist duo (Mike Thies on drums and keyboards, Topu Lyo cello and loops ) and embellished with clear springs mercenary (played heavily on the heartstrings), can inspire in me something other than a passing curiosity ...
Surely there is the effect of mode, Live Footage of a false airs Aufgang: less virtuosity and pure talent but effective tricks to compensate (severe rhythmic, powerful bass lines on "See The Reflection" in particular). The duo plays with nostalgia, too, is taking Royksopp in an instant revival and subtle dancefloor ("Working Man Is Always Poor ').
It's so direct and easy to listen that becomes suspect: it is in the sound world of ads most aesthetes (luxury deviant, perfumes that want to sell by caressing models), it provides the perfect material for generations of cultural programs ...
It borders on the looting and scholarly distillation of catchy melodies, archi-known guise reworked (the haunting feeling to know everything already be familiar melodies from the first listen) but that is very strange. Live Footage playing with electronics as if it was a framework that should be overcome, however: the frames are simple and synthetic cello alights slowly and using loops and other effects to enrich the whole, probably dreaming of an orchestra to replace them. Classical music is a permanent reference, but it is tackled head almost in fleeing, the economy or timidity.
Willow Be is a discrete disc, a small collection of valuable urban contemporary music and Live Footage, a kind of Balmorhea cities. Here, a sincere compliment ...


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