LILLY JOEL What Lies In The Sea
Description
'What Lies In The Sea' is the fruit of a ten year collaboration between singer Lynn Cassiers and keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin, and is the first release for their duo Lilly Joel. Both musicians are free spirits and true, much-lauded innovators in their respective fields.
Belgian singer Lynn Cassiers is as much a singer as she can be called a sound sculptor, using her voice, microphone, and electronics to create soundscapes.
Pianist Jozef Dumoulin (Belgium) redefined the Fender Rhodes keyboard through a scope that is at the same time fully contemporary, eclectic and highly personal.
This recording marks a milestone on their path as a band and crystalizes a moment in a universe that was carefully shaped and daringly explored. The music is straightforward, fresh and original - the focus never being the attempt to be part of some distinct genre, but only to be honest towards one's own place in a ever changing world.
There are reminiscences of experimental music, jazz, rock, electro, pop, traditional music and contemporary classical music, which is totally normal considered who's at work here. Anyhow, all those influences are fully digested and serve as countless small bricks that are used to make a new big image, that stands on it own and can be watched as such.
Titles
01. I Sea Star
02. Blue Algae
03. A Wheel In The Palm Of Your Hand
04. Thaw
05. Ruben's Tree
06. Wij De Wolken
07. The Cage Of The Yellow Bird
08. Zondag
09. I Can See You From Afar
10. Today A Small Bird Died Due To Sadness (He was 6 years old)
11. Dew
Press
Rif Raf (FR · fv · 01/02/2016)
Dix ans de collaboration, deux artistes belges au programme. Une chanteuse, Lynn Cassiers, davantage créatrice de paysages sonores que vocaliste au sens premier du mot. Un musicien, Jozef Demoulin, que les pas emmènent du côté de Chris Watson ou de Jana Winderen, dans la stratosphère. Pour un miracle de légèreté. Quelques grammes de poussière d'étoiles en ouverture, totalement sublime, ça fait penser à l'immensité discrète d'Anne Laplantine. Des pas en apesanteur, nullement celle de l'infâme Calogero, du genre '2001, A Space Odyssey'. Un reste d'orage technoide, on fantasme Björk et Alva Noto, toujours en fond sonore ces quelques notes en escapade à l'orée de l'electro-pop. Ce chant, aérien et prenant, sur plusieurs morceaux ('Thaw', mazette!), telle une soliste de l'Hilliard Ensemble interprétant un fantasme descendu de chez Steve Reich.Un ou deux paragraphes, aussi, où la légèreté s'envole tellement qu'elle ne retombe plus de son cumulus. Pour un disque à la personnalité aussi immense que frêle.
