Letters to the dearest (GR cdr 05) - CDr - 2005


   Moonman is back with a new surprise collection of eleven tracks, called « Letters to the dearest ».
   If most of the tracks are based on
real-time auto-sampling of acoustic and electric guitars magicly transformed  into polyphonic indie-folk, one also finds such wonders as "Underground design" (an outake from "Manipulators") or elsewhere "Very old letters with cigarette burns" with lyrics written by labelmate Dana Hilliot.
  The conjunction of multipitched vocal parts becomes a trademark of an ambiguous and original songwriting process (« Write on invisible shores », « Ocean »), as is the juxtaposition of interwoven guitar motifs that can be fragile and slow (« I could have been your dad », « Toast ») in a style that is rather akin to Smog, or sometimes also more optimistic and radical, thus building a strange tension with the often rather dark monologues/dialogues elaborated on the spot with automatic writing.
   Finally we also encounter other pieces that lean towards the more experimental as already expressed in the underrated trilogy of « Pièces pour guitare préparée » with improvised parts that weave a very subtile link between dissonance and melody  (« The rigid stars were wrong »). 
« Letters to the dearest » was published under Creative Commons License.