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Jean-Daniel Botta
Devotion Pour La Petite Chameau
Le Saule
- Cat No: LSL-24CD
- updated:2021-01-31
A bizarre gem that could be called the twin counterpart to "Feigen Feigen," the 2016 album by the witch Leonore Boulanger, which also saw a domestic Japanese release on windbell.
Track List
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1. LE REVE DE L'ADJOINT
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2. LES PIECETTES
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3. CHEMNITZ
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4. CHORALE BEGUE
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5. LES DEUX EAUX
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6. MORDRE (LES SOLUTIONS VISUELLES)
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7. LES SEMBLABLES (PETIT AIR)
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8. KINDER IN MOSKAU
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9. A (DIRE PAS DIRE)
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10. SUITE DU VILAIN
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11. UN AUTRE VOYAGEUR
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12. LE TOUCHEUR DE LAMPES (PAR LE PAYS)
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13. LES SEMBLABLES II
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14. L'IPERSUASIF (UNE PILE DE MOTS TOPS LIMPIDE)
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15. LE CHANDE - BETE

A 2016 work by Jean-Daniel Botta, who is also Leo's partner; the Japanese title translates as "Faith in the Little She-Camel." I kept the previous album, "Ammi-Majus: Grand Gouter," on repeat — among the various LE SAULE releases packed with eccentric talents, it stood out as contemporary chanson marked by warm guitar. This one plays like an omen of "Feigen Feigen." Collage and recitation, mimetic words ∞ onomatopoeia and minimalism, plus the distant resonance of ethnic instruments. The way non-Western timbres and melodies are collaged and put to painterly use owes nothing to dance-music methods; it follows in the lineage of the Saravah catalogue and French avant-garde music. Avant-chanson with Indian santoor and bagpipes flying about. It feels like witnessing an extreme example of how "song" might evolve from the 2010s onward. A sound diary that reads like a dream journal. The music video is wonderfully strange too. (Original Japanese text by Shhhhh)