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	Les Fragments De La Nuit Musique Du Crepuscle Genres: Classical, Metal From the label, Equilibrium Music: "Les Fragments De La Nuit is a blossoming band created in 2005 by Michel Villar (piano) and Ombeline Chardes (violin), score composers for film. In order to play their pieces on stage, th... more » « less
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All Artists: Les Fragments De La Nuit
Title: Musique Du Crepuscle
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Equilibrium Music
Release Date: 8/26/2008
Album Type: Import
Genres: Classical, Metal
Style: Chamber Music
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 5600323960224

Synopsis

Album Description

From the label, Equilibrium Music: "Les Fragments De La Nuit is a blossoming band created in 2005 by Michel Villar (piano) and Ombeline Chardes (violin), score composers for film. In order to play their pieces on stage, they decided to set up a quintet made up of three violins, a cello and a piano. Their music, ranging from tragic to epic and atmospheric was greeted by audiences with unexpected enthusiasm. Some see in it the influence of repetitive music composers such as Philip Glass or Steve Reich, others the melancholic emotion found in the works of Arvo' Part or Canadians Godspeed You Black Emperor. Encouraged by such fervour, Fragments de la Nuit have played their music to a growing number of passionate spectators, keeping in mind their motto: "Our music is poetry in which words are notes, a memory in which images are dreams". 'Musique du Crepuscule' - a vision of night wrapped in mystery: a night haunted by spectral chants, under the spell of epic, poignant strings and sustained by hypnotic piano pulsations. Its nocturnal universe oozes with hybrid ink, enveloping hidden emotions tainted with melancholy and voluptuousness. A neo-classical or post-nocturnal piece, 'Musique du Crepuscule' has many different faces. It alternates between violin riffs, dark cello projections and the complaints of a lone piano, highlighted by enigmatic echoing voices."

CD Reviews

Beautiful Neoclassical Work

Zombiehor.de | Detroit, Mi | 10/23/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Epic, sublime, intimate and euphoric. I thought long and hard about how I wanted to describe Les Fragments de la Nuit's album, "Musique du crépuscule", and really, it can be summed up with those four words. The music is composed by a small band with cello, violin and piano, so it is very neoclassical in nature. But this is neoclassical in the most ethereal sense, and the music on "Musique du crépuscule" really transcends what conventions I normally use to describe beautiful music.

On the band's Myspace page, they list composers such a Steve Reich and Philip Glass as influences. I don't hear much experimental sound here as it sounds like there is a definite vision, but I definitely hear the intimate, introspective qualities of Glass present. They also list Godspeed You! Black Emperor as an influence. Again, I hear nothing similar to Godspeed or post-rock. There is definitely a similarity to Rachel's "Music for Egon Schiele", but even that comparison is fleeting. "Musique du crépuscule" is dark and epic like sound track work, using occasionally intense staccato rhythms, and really brooding progressions. However, where the music is larger than life at times, it is highly personal and reflective. Where it has similarities to a lot of music I listen to, it really is highly original work.

If you like neoclassical music, and want something as dreamy and sublime as it is dark and brooding, I definitely recommend this album."