Review: Vincent Bergeron - Le savant arriver avant songeur
Québec, Canadian composer Vincent Bergeron’s Le savant devait arriver avant songeur is a weird trip: an almost entirely discordant, abrasive, Lynchian hash of twisted instruments (strings, tabla, electric guitar, piano, electronics, saxophone, among others) and Bergeron’s creepy voice, the totality of which he describes as “impossible music”, and one which proves very awkward to the ear and mind. It sounds like there is lots of improvisation. At times a female voice plays off of Bergeron’s vocal in a stage musical style. Stand-out for weirdness has to be the acapella “duet” SexyBookWorm (the only full English-language track present) where Bergeron and accomplice seem to adopt mockney accents and yearn, for something. It’s avant garde and not without its own freakish charm, but I am wholly unqualified to say anything more.
[Out now on Freaky Waves]
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Posted in Music & Reviews by Martin Skivington on April 21, 2009.
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