TOUT BLUE - OTIUM

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: BJR074
Barcode: 7640159731740
Release Date: Dec 2021
Genre: Experimental / Avant garde

TRACKS
Ere De Rien
Baleine
Constellation
Rucksucre
Entre Les Mots
06 Tout Bleu - Ce Sera Snippet
U22
Otium
Shes Lost

Tout Bleu's second record, Otium, recalls a route where the electronic crosses paths with the acoustic.

This new milestone in Genevan multi-instrumentalist Simone Aubert's (Massicot, Hyperculte) musical field represents a kind of fruitful deceleration. Initially conceived as a solo project in 2018, the act is now an exploration ground for the musicians gathered on Otium : Naomi Mabanda on the cello (Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp, Chien Mon Ami) and Luciano Turella on the alto (Irtum Branda) encounter the sampling machines of POL, that could already be found on the first eponymous album Tout Bleu. In Tout Bleu's music, the part-melodic, part-abrasive riffs reminiscent of Massicot are present, and so are the socially engaged, energetic singing of Hyperculte. However, the band, by using acoustic instruments, vocals and electric guitar in an unconventional way, draws an orchestral landscape that sometimes flirts with pop, and where strings merge in polyrythm on low tempo beats.

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