MANINKARI - Continuum Sonore

Format: CD

Label & Cat.Number: Basses Frequences BF44CD

Release Year: 2012

Note: fantastic new album by the French duo enlarging their typical ethno-percussive style by creating immersive majestic & emotional instrument based drone-pieces, full of tension & dark grace, using mesmerizing sounds from cymbalon, alto, bodhran, & field recordings... very beautiful & highly recommended !

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"You'll get in "Continuum Sonore" in well-known territories: deep alto with ethnic percussions. You're in a Maninkari record, no doubts.
But that's where the french duo will left the obviousness. After a handfull of critically acclaimed records on labels such as Conspiracy, Three:Four and Neuropa to name a few, Maninkari offered to Basses Frequences the chance to release something different: a drone album. If the band already used deep, continuous sounds in its previous works it never handle them with such extended, pure approach. They didn't used drums nor percussions apart on the intro, but their usual kind of traditional instruments (cymbalom, alto, bodhran) and manipulated fields recordings, to create solar or nightmarish drones. The band totally reached its goal and offered us a majestic piece of drone that I'm really proud of." [label info]

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