L’humeur Des Non Jours
Circum Disc, 2024
8/10
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Falter Bramnk, Phillippe Lenglet and Samuel Bodart bring their inimitable talents to these avant-garde tunes that put a very unique spin on jazz.
The animated “Loose Obedience” opens with Bodart’s wild drumming and Bramnk’s found objects strategy making for calculated noise, and “Réflexion faite” follows with no lack of effects and adventurous keys from Bramnk that quiver with atypical gestures.
Landing in the middle, “Fouilles” has Bodart’s distinct drumming guiding the off kilter rhythm, while “Le clou” drones with strong attention to ambience via the strategic bass drum and Bodart’s creative guitar sounds.
Deeper yet, the cinematic nods of “intimisation” are largely bare but impactful via its tinkering appeal, and “Traumen” exits with a dense landscape that’s ominous, mysterious and busy.
A strong exercise in repetition and expressionism, the plucked versus struck strings, hammered keys and scraped, struck and prepared percussion blends melody and noise in a way that few others could replicate.