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Le Journal du Dormeur
[EDT]
Cynfeirdd
[Hide & Seek]
Two records, two names, but almost just one band. Since 2002, Liesbeth Houdjik often sings on the Nouvelles Lectures Cosmopolites' records, Julien Ash's project, and with the help of Pierre-Yves Lebeau (her band-mate within Hide & Seek), she naturally gives birth to A Sparrow-Grass Hunt, a mixed french-dutch band. On their first album, "Le Journal du Dormeur", the band visits the world of tales with an ambient music that we could swear it's been composed outdoor. Experimental and untypical, this record is divided into four sleep cycles with classy, warm and colourful compositions full of fairy figures. Every track is like a picture of a journey where the absurd has never been so real nor orchestrated with so many violins and synths. This is a magical record, where heavenly voices and spoken words gather around a sampler in the woods. Meantime, the new Hide & Seek album entitled "European Landscapes" comes out. Liesbeth and Pierre-Yves are on their own for this record that sometimes remind of Trees Dance for its dance-heavenly-voices-pop music (Towards the Sun). Made of nine mastered tracks where French, English, German, male and female vocals alternate for a short time duration (hardly half an hour) with guitars and way much colder keyboards than Julien Ash's ones, Hide & Seek make us feel that autumn is already there. And they prove it with music and images thanks to the ten different CD sleeves, a true collection of landscapes at dawn, all European certified, of course.
Bertrand Hamonou |
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