add to cart
add to wantlist
email a friend
 
PRICE:
$23.50
NOT IN STOCK
NO RESTOCK ESTIMATE
01. OISEAUX-TEMPETE - Omen: Divided We Fall
02. OISEAUX-TEMPETE - Ütopiya/On Living (feat. G.W. Sok)
03. OISEAUX-TEMPETE - Someone Must Shout That We Will Build the Pyramids
04. OISEAUX-TEMPETE - Fortune Teller
05. OISEAUX-TEMPETE - Yallah Karga [Dance Song]
06. OISEAUX-TEMPETE - Soudain Le Ciel
07. OISEAUX-TEMPETE - I Terribili Infanti
08. OISEAUX-TEMPETE - Portals of Tomorrow
09. OISEAUX-TEMPETE - Requiem for Tony
10. OISEAUX-TEMPETE - Aslan Sütü (Santé, Vieux-Monde!)
ARTIST
TITLE
Ütopiya?
FORMAT
2LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
SR 396LP SR 396LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
6/2/2015

Gatefold double LP version; pressed on marbled vinyl; includes download code. Ütopiya? not only continues Oiseaux-Tempête's first album (SR 381CD/LP); it also extends it. The travels move this time to Istanbul and Sicily, providing the food for its urgent energy and indomitable drive. While the structures still hint at moments of post-rock, they go further now, almost into the area of free-jazz yet without losing a directness rooted in punk (highlighted perhaps by the presence of G.W. Sok from The Ex). In addition, the bass clarinet of Gareth Davis references both the roughest of experiments of Akosh Szelevényi and The Stooges' Fun House. There are, so the story goes, sea birds that reveal themselves only at times of approaching storms. This story though, is a little more complicated. For some, the pipers riding the deluge, yet for the mariner the prophets in the lingering final moments of calm. Ultimately, are they the creator or created if the existence of one requires the other? It is this Mediterranean Sea that Oiseaux-Tempête chose to roam. More or less anchored in Paris, Oiseaux-Tempête is the result of the meeting between Frédéric D. Oberland and Stéphane Pigneul (members of both Farewell Poetry and Le Réveil Des Tropiques) and Ben McConnell (Beach House, Marissa Nadler). For Ütopiya?, the group is expanded with the addition of bass clarinet virtuoso Gareth Davis.