Comming Up: Francois & The Atlas Mountains - E Volo Love
Comming Up: Francois & The Atlas Mountains - E Volo Love
DOMINO RECORDS
Releasedate 23 January 2012
LIVE: Eurosonic 12 januari 2012
Aanstekelijke tweetalige indie pop van eerste Franse act op het Domino label.
E Volo Love (which is a palindrome), is comprised of eleven elegant, fragile, velvet-plush songs on an album that is heart-meltingly delicate, enchanting and otherworldly. Delicately poised between sunnily feel-good and wistfully melancholy, E Volo Love has a poignant, end-of-summer feel to it. The grand theme on this dual-language album – sung in both French and English – is simply love.
E Volo Love was written whilst Fránçois Marry surfed, cycled and wandered through the countryside, and was recorded in a church in Saintes, his hometown near La Rochelle in south west France.
The album’s hot buttered sound comes from its wide range of influences, from French chanson, traditional indie pop and Aphex Twin to African and Middle Eastern sounds, which can be heard in particular on Les Plus Beaux and Do You Want To Dance, which bookend the album. The album was mixed by Tinariwen’s studio bod, Jean-Paul Romann.
Texture and mood dominate thanks to slowly ebbing arrangements, elastic rhythms, seamless twists and turns such as Piscine’s chanson-into-house music tack, heavy doses of elegant French drama, and a soft gaze of electronics. Released as the first single on 7th November, Piscine yearns nostalgically for the past, and for lost afternoons at a small-town swimming-pool from Fránçois’ youth.