CENTENAIRE
centenaire
Release Date: 13/11/2007
an unusual, quite entrancing debut album by french quartet centenaire, whose style is a mixture of indie, folk and left-field pop music but with too many other contemporary and retro influences to list. arthur lee meets this mortal coil, possibly, but much else too. their self-composed songs (in english) are often dreamy & acoustic, under-pinned by organ and over-laid with harmony vocals, reminiscent of harper's bizarre or the association.
centenaire were formed in january 2006 by damien mingus, aurlien potier and orval carlos sibelius, and joined by stephane laporte later that year. the band uses a wide but subtle palette of instruments & sounds, including : charango, organ, guitars, cello, clarinet, metalophone, melodica, and voices, as well as fire, rivers, electric eels and insects, apparently !
they cite influences such as the penguin caf orchestra, pentangle, nick drake, leonard cohen, delta blues, mark hollis, van morrison, slint, motown, this heat... and many more - although certainly some of those are more immediately audible in their music than other
| CD code: chin200712 | 13.99 GBP |
