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French composer Julien Locquet debuted at 23 with
-1 (Artefact , 2001) under the moniker :Gel, a work of subtle and sublime
post-ambient melody.
Changing name to Dorine Muraille, he continued his exploration of gentle,
dreamy melodies on Mani (Fat Cat, 2002), a collaboration with
French poetess Chloe Delaume.
His compositions are sculpted by means of
computer-processed acoustic instruments, but the result is not noisy or
futuristic. It radiates, on the opposite, a childish and nostalgic feeling.
The fragmented Le Supplice De La Baignoire seems to deconstruct a church psalm.
Dopees slowly disintegrates a children's nursery rhyme.
Se Flinguer liquefies a street-band fanfare to the point that it becomes a lake of pulsing alien sounds.
Bbraallen weds a warped psychedelic carillon and a drunk singalong.
Madrague Retour blends neoclassical strings and guitar, aquatic electronica, a child's rigmarole.
A wave of harsher dissonance attacks the lullaby of Perdre, like an alien in a distant galaxy listening to a confused human radio broadcast.
The bucolic elegy of Techniques Du Lexo sinks in quicksands of sparse chords.
The aquatic effects in 50actionexpess obscure what could be an acid-rock jam.
La Regle is perhaps the subliminal zenith (or nadir) of the album, a noise that harks back to a primitive universe.
The aquatic theme returns (a bit swampier) in closer Alexia.
The repertory is virtually infinite.
Julien Loquet mysteriously disappeared after this promising album.
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