Gibbon
Carton, 2022
8/10
A highly creative listen, Tatiana Paris brings us a solo guitar effort that welcomes objects and a radio cassette player that helps place some electronic moments along the way.
“préfixer” gets the listen off to mesmerizing start, where haunting manipulated strings are met with much ambience, and “le rouge-gorge aime la t110” follows with a strategic rattling that segues into an oddly dreamy, bare climate of cinematic exploration.
In the middle, the buzzing “chant VI” welcomes Pierrick Pagé’s distinct vocals to the mechanical landscape, while “muréne” showcases Paris’ pretty pipes amid a very minimal, stirring album highlight.
The title track and “marisa” exit the listen, where the former offers a blurry flash of firm electronic prowess and the latter emits a gorgeous guitar tone and highlights the agile playing from Paris.
A record that utilizes wooden and metal objects, raw bouts of electronics, and poetic guitar and singing, Paris is well versed in pop, jazz, tango and African music, and all those influences are present and appreciated here.