01 - Éveil des Fées
02 - Assault
03 - La Ronde des Fées
04 - Entre Ciel et Fer
05 - Devenons Demain I
06 - Devenons Demain II
07 - Solitude
08 - Solarisation
09 - La Chambre des Fées
10 - Soleils Noirs pour Lune Blanche
11 - La Mélodie de la Tête
12 - Le Château Enchanté
13 - Le Scarabée Bleu
14 - Soleils Noirs pour Lune Blanche – Tango
15 - Les Eaux Dormantes
16 - Alpha du Centaure
Through the times, the night has been a terrain of inspiration, fascination and mystery for mankind. The silence and the darkness it brings, the imprecise contours that grants to the forms and appearances of things, drastically changing the laws of the day and manifesting a whole new reign with new rules, strange shapes and enigmatic connotations. Comparatively, poets and musicians alike have often used night as a muse to transcend the more perceptible side of things, that way, amalgamating a whole series of ideals and prefigurations about this quite unique moment of the day.
Romanticism made of the night it’s unconditional ally, the place where often the true nature of things resides unquestioned, aided and supported by the darkness and the silence that abounds. Les Fragments De La Nuit are part of this legion, eternal lovers of the unknown and the mysterious, a set that returns at the dawn of each age to collect new odes to the twilight zone with musical landscapes and atmospheric paintbrushes. It is basically in that set of ideas and conceptions that this beautiful epic and at times tragic work strolls in. As the main musicians involved in Les Fragments De La Nuit claim theirselves: «Our music is poetry in which words are notes, a memory in which images are dreams».
The musical transition is calm and sublime as the night itself is, slowly transcending the black curtains of a sky sparked with stars and somber woods slowly balancing with the wind. Nevertheless some more strong moments take place but always doing so in a perfect complementation between subtlety and intensity.
The work is entirely instrumental with a strong cinematic development. And the construction is in the way of cult chamber music with radical influence from modern composers. Main instruments used are: the piano, a Violin ( Both played by Michell Villar and Ombeline Chardes respectively, the main composers for Fragments of the nuit) and a cello that enters the score from time to time to add some more sinister line or to encompass a low rhythmic accent. The style is entirely romantic, with both a lush sense and a disturbing side at times. It’s interesting though that all instruments takes serious hold in the rhythm, accentuating the “contra punctum” and referencing modern composers style.
Each song constitutes a quite singular nocturnal escapade assembled by a magnificent and diverse piano score driven along by the rhythmic section disposed with the violin along with the cello, and some occasional well placed ethereal chorus lines. This choral apparition reminds of faeries performing haunting magical canticles of sublime dark beauty and hypnotic attraction. In return the instrumentalization put a subtle influx of repetitiveness, slowly inducing a magical trance like state for the listener, slowly transporting him to the very centre of the night, with all it’s creatures and magical events. Surely a romantic evocation of the magic side of nature within the wide margin of night! Romantic neoclassic with a subtle ethereal tone. Sueño de una noche de verano.
The work as a whole is charged with this feeling of transparent stillness, arousing voluptuousness and a subtle touch of mystery, constantly inviting to a state of contemplative laxity and sweet melancholy that suits perfectly with an evening listening experience.
This French cinematic quintet is widely recognized in Europe as a set of professional score composers for independent cinema and they certainly surrender all their expertise and effort in this work, clearly dominating the romantic musical concept they are dealing with along with an exceptional and often blinding performance capacity, sufficiently original and beautiful to not just captivate the listener but to bring atmospheres and scenes with just their instrumentation and not needing any additional special effects or electronic enhancements. A work that without a doubt is one of the releases of the year and a band to keep at sight for future developments. One of the tops this year!
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