Champignon Flamme
Carton, 2021
8/10
A scientist and longtime music fanatic, Gilles Poizat releases his first instrumental album here, where he’s armed with just trumpet, modular synth and a very fertile imagination.
“Galet Dérivant (Drifting Pebble)” starts the listen with bare, soulful trumpet as much atmosphere settles into a unique jazz meets electronica hybrid, and “Traversée De La Table (Crossing The Table)” continues this theme with buzzing synth as soaring brass lingers in the background of the very stylish tune.
The middle tracks bring us the manipulated and precise “Amont Des Chútes (Upstream Of The Falls)”, where soft trumpet aligns with skittering electronics that are very subtle, while “Cérémonie De La Brume (Mist Ceremony)” is a minimalistic adventure of meditative electronics as the trumpet enters faintly near the end. “Lignes De Fuite (Vanishing Lines)” exits the listen, and brings an ominous quality where a cinematic appeal floats with both mystery and fascination.
A very adventurous effort that’s also quite intimate, all the electronics other than the last track were done live, and Poizat relearned the trumpet- his first instrument- for this highly creative and absorbing listen.
Travels well with: Submarine FM- Crawl; Christopher Sky- What It Is, It Isn’t