Le désert avance

by melmac

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1.	Trahison 07:40	buy track
2.	Killer 04:59	buy track
3.	Boom 06:55	buy track
4.	Le désert avance 04:09	buy track
5.	Accident 06:19	buy track
6.	soldat 14:09	buy track

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Melmac reveals a new maturity gained in the course of three French and european tours that have enabled the group to initiate a major part of the ideas presented here through extensive improvisation sessions on stage in the spirit of the instant composing sessions ran by Kraut Rock bands during the psychedelics years.

These new experiments have opened the artistic spectrum of the band to new horizons clearly rock, heavy, trippy or noise reminiscent of bands like Sleep or Skullflower (.. and reconciling the band members with their teens rocked to the sound of Thrash Metal and Black Sabbath ...) but still leaving open wide moments close to ambient and repetitive music, not far from the solo work of someone like Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. Titles like "Le désert avance" or "soldat", the closing song of the record, a kind of a long bad trip, sealed and inhabited, might be the showpieces.

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released January 1, 2010

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melmac Paris, France

Almost 15 years since its formation and three years since its last album, Melmac continues its ongoing evolution by becoming a guitar/drum/saxophone quartet.

In its first years of existence, the group defined its own artistic world, a sort of anguished and abstract “imageless cinema” drawing from the borders of instrumental rock, ambient music and minimalist sound experiments. ... more

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