Modular, multifold elegance
Symphonic arrangements and experimental researches in an album featuring unexpected piano harmonies, quasi-minimalistic stings and winds and an almost outworldly choral part, as well as a couple of more rhythmic tracks where the tendency of stylistic exploration is significantly prominent.
Origami is the traditional Japanese art of folding paper into various shapes, without using glue or scissors. Apparently inspired by this technique, John Peter B. proposes seven instrumentals where the separate elements keep their distinct identity rather than mingling into seamless unities.
Like in an origami being gradually folded into shape, or a modular one that consists of many individual origamis joined together, there is progression from one track to the next, with more "ingredients" being introduced step by step - from a solitary piano to accompanying percussions, flutes, violins and choruses, culminating to the final addtion of the male voice in the 8th bonus track (Le bateau des fleurs), half-singing, half-reciting the lyrics (which I wish were also published, so that the words could be better understood) against an immersive techno rhythm, not overwhelming but tactfully present in the background.
A quite unusual, elegantly idiosyncratic work, perhaps not for all ears but unquestionably worth discovering.
NOTE: This album is no longer available on Jamendo, but may still be freely downloadable from The Jamendo Albums Collection @ Archive.org.
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