OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE / AL-’AN ! / SUB ROSA - SR440 / 2017

This can be purchased OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE AL-’AN ! (And Your Night Is Your Shadow; A Fairy Tale Of Piece Of Land To Make Our Dreams) 01 Notes from the Mediterranean Sea 02 Bab Sharqi 03 Feu Aux Frontières 04 Baalshamin 05 Our Mind is a Sponge; Our Heart is a Stream 06 Mish Aaref Eish w Leish 07 Electrique Résistance 08 The Offering 09 Ya Layl, Ya 3aynaki (ô nuit, ô tes yeux) 10 Carnaval 11 Through The Speech Of Stars 12 A L’Aube 13 Hurra Osba3o / Par-delà le Désert With this ambitious project partly recorded in Beirut with local musicians and featuring Mondkopf, Charbel Haber, Sharif Sehnaoui, G.W. Sok, Tamer Abu Ghazaleh, Oiseaux-Tempête have achieved a far more complex work, richer in texture, the intertwining of acoustic elements with electronica, roaming and shaking the foundations of this almost labyrinthian personal opus of an album. As ever, the group realises both the immersive and also the total physicality on the record. In Oiseaux-Tempête, Frédéric D. Oberland and Stéphane Pigneul have chosen a name, a call from the sea, of almost totemic quality. First, perhaps, it offers the suggestion of journeys over great distance, the distant hymns of fortune-tellers and gravitydefying acts of the oracles. Yet at the same time, comes the idea of earthly chaos, a willing reference to the telluric frenzy that darkens the sky yet also, paradoxically, brings promise of a radiant tomorrow.