Signal Bruit – Hyperborēe (Album – ProductionB)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, experimental, minimal-electro.
Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl.
Background/Info: Signal Bruit strikes back with a second album, which comes nearly four years after “Planisphère(s)” which was released on Meshwork Music. Member U-0176 –who’s also involved with the French electro-pop project Celluloide, now released this album on his own label –which is a subdivision of BOREDOMproduct. This album is a kind of conceptual work inspired from the Greek mythology and more specifically about the voyage of Pytheas.
Content: “Planisphère(s)” was a pleasant work, but this new work is clearly more elaborated. Inspired by synthesizer icons like Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream ao this work is a fusion between pure retro electro-ambient music and a very own approach. The songs are instrumental edits, revealing the magic of vintage electro sound treatments. The work features 9 songs, which never stopped catching my attention.
+ + + : Signal Bruit has seriously improved all aspects of the production. If the debut work revealed some real good ideas and cool songs, this album clearly moves several steps further. It’s a pretty sophisticated composition built up with ingenious sound treatments, great vintage sweeps and effects. I’ve been impressed by some of the deep, resonating bass lines and the minimal electro approach mixed with space like atmospheres. There are numerous outstanding tracks featured in this work, but “Baltique” and “Sirēnes” both are little sonic wonders. The slow rhythmic carrying the songs make the composition only more accessible and accomplished.
– – – : The major difficulty with intelligent electro compositions is to reach a wider audience. Therefore this kind of production remains a challenge… which I fully support!
Conclusion: Signal Bruit has released a truly masterpiece, which I highly recommend if you like intelligent, vintage electronics.
Best songs: “Baltique”, “Sirēnes”, Lacydon”, “Pentēcontēre II”.
Rate: (8½).
Artist: www.facebook.com/signal.bruit
Label: www.production-b.fr / www.facebook.com/productionB.label
About Signal Bruit
Signal Bruit is the solo project of the French musician known as Member U-0176, who also records as one half of the electro-pop act Celluloide and runs the label BOREDOMproduct and its sub-division productB. Signal Bruit debuted with “Planisphère(s)” on Sevren Ni-Arb’s label Meshwork, before “Hyperborēe” followed on productionB in 2020, its concept built around the Greek mythology of Pytheas’s voyage. Side-Line spoke with the artist twice, in a 2016 Click Interview and again for the release of “Hyperborēe”.
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