Labelle
Syncretic music.
Electronic & Maloya.
Electronic & Maloya.
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LABELLE
Maloya electronics of Labelle lives at first as an experience, an accelerator of imagination. Either sung or either declaimed, in the tradition of fonnkèrs from Réunion Island, rhythmical, electronic or more experimental, he is constantly surprising by his capacity to pull atmospheres and by the introspection which he generates.
Resolutely syncretic, the universe of Labelle unites maloya (from Reunion traditional music) and electronics, colored with Indian and African touches, to give birth to a new shape flirting with the universality. On stage, Labelle lives in its music and invites the public in the meditative depth, in the dance, even in the trance.
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« Entre émotions vives et distorsions nerveuses, échos de la vieille Europe et mémoire d’Afrique, comme irisé par la lumière d’une aurore australe »
4 clés ƒƒƒƒ (Éclat)
« Labelle réaffirme brillamment l'évidence et la légitimité d'une union entre le souffle des cordes et les sons synthétiques »
«...a deconstructed selection of string quartet works reframing
classical melody through Maloya rhythms and contemporary electronics »
« On Éclat Labelle pushes the creolisation of styles one step further into actually largely unknown territory, which nevertheless feels amazingly close and ultimately comprehensible »
« Labelle réinvente le Maloya traditionnel de La Réunion »
« The complimentary energies between the staccato synths and poignant strings remind me of Jon Hassell's electroacoustic Fourth World style, while Plimmer's atmospherics add an experimental, almost jazzy touch »
Labelle défie la pesanteur et dessine les contours du futur de la musique de l'océan Indien.
Album of the month. (Orchestre univers)
« Cordes, clarinette, flûtes et percussions conversent ou se fondent avec les boucles, nappes, brumes et orages dessinés par Labelle »
"Labelle is clearly a very talented musician, composer and producer.
His synthesis of modal harmonies and tribal rhythms is very reminiscent of the ‘Fourth World’ created by the venerable Jon Hassell"
« C’est comme si le producteur avait séquencé l’ADN du maloya et replanté ses racines dans un rêve sensible et mystérieux »
4 clés ƒƒƒƒ (univers-île)
