Opera Multi Steel – D’une Pierre Deux Tombes (Album – Wave Records / Meidosem Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Cold-Wave, Dark-Pop.
Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl.
Background/Info: The twelfth album by French formation Opera Multi steel is a special one. The work has been composed by the original trio of the band: Patrick L. Robin, Franck Lopez and Catherine Marie. The work is about the loss of member’s mothers who all passed away in 2018.
Content: Opera Multi Steel strikes back with an intimate concept which they transposed into their familiar melancholic sound. Dark, French poetry reflecting the loss of their mums has been mixed with sad atmospheres. But the work also features a few danceable cuts which even reveal certain club-appeal.
+ + + : I easily imagine this album has been part of the members mourning. Opera Multi Steel accomplished a deeply artistic homage to their mothers. The dark -but poetic lyrics have been always the band’s trademark but now reaches an ultimate point of emotion. The music has been masterly adapted into a Dark/Cold-Wave requiem. Mainly melancholic but also danceable. The opening piece “L’Annonce” is one of the best cuts I’ve heard from the band and it’s not that different for “Les Immortelles”. The songs have been achieved with judicious arrangements, poignant melody lines and a great harmony between the main male- and female backing vocals.
– – – : I sometimes miss a bit more passion in the vocals production.
Conclusion: “D’Une Pierre Deux Tombes” is an ultra dark- and beautiful posthumous tribute.
Best songs: “L’Annonce”, “Les Immortelles”, “D’Une Pierre Deux Tombes”, “Ars-En-Ré”.
Rate: 8.
Side-Line spoke to the band about the album in June 2022: Click Interview with Opera Multi Steel: ‘No More Ego Problems For A Very Long Time Now’.
Listen to “D’une Pierre Deux Tombes”:
Artist: http://opera.multi.steel.pagesperso-orange.fr / www.facebook.com/OPERA-MULTI-STEEL-Officiel-122973142438816
Labels: www.waverecordsmusic.com / www.facebook.com/waverecords / www.asso-trinity.org / www.facebook.com/Trinity-webzine-Meidosem-Records-105271546011
About Opera Multi Steel
Opera Multi Steel is a French coldwave band from Bourges, formed in the winter of 1983 by Franck Lopez on vocals, keyboards, recorder and guitars, his brother Patrick L. Robin on vocals and percussion, and Catherine Marie on keyboards and vocals. The first demos were built around an Elex keyboard, a Casio VL-Tone, a Roland TR-606 drum machine, guitars and bass pedals.
The band self-released its early records on its own label up to “Stella Obscura” in 1992. A Brazilian label then issued the compilation “Days Of Creation” in 1995 and produced “Histoires De France” in 1996, which brought the group back into view in Europe. Later releases have come through Wave Records, Triton, Meidosem Records, Dark Entries, Infrastition and VOD.
“D’une Pierre Deux Tombes” is the twelfth Opera Multi Steel album. It was recorded and mixed at STATION, with music and lyrics by the band and mastering by Marcelo Gallo, and released on 29 June 2021. “Les Passions Tristes” followed in 2023.
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