Inactuelles (FR)

The meeting between øjeRum (Paw Grabowski, piano and synthesizer, Copenhagen) and Peter Knight (trumpet, artistic director of the Australian Art Orchestra in Melbourne). With a collage on the cover that is not by øjeRum (too bad…). Misty trumpet, piano loops, trails and electronic textures for a form that lasts an hour. An hour to get lost in the forest of sounds, an hour to sail on a sea with a light, ample swell. And what a beautiful title, once again: Now we are Branches and Leaves! The two musicians awaken a whole world of echoes, rustles, rustles, in an atmosphere of illumination. It is the young Rimbaud walking in a mystical early morning:

MYSTIQUE
On the slope of the embankment, the angels turn their woolen robes, in the grasslands of steel and emerald.

Meadows of flames leap up to the top of the hillock. On the left, the soil of the ridge is trampled by all the homicides and all the battles, and all the disastrous noises spin their curve. Behind the ridge on the right, the line of the orients, of progress.

And, while the band, at the top of the painting, is formed of the turning and leaping rumor of the conches of the seas and of human nights,

The flowery sweetness of the stars, and of the sky, and of the rest descends in front of the slope, like a basket, against our face, and makes the abyss flowering and blue below.

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Wool trumpet, emerald synthesizer, piano descent of stars in the ultramarine conches, and the infinite rise of the branches and leaves of the engulfed magic forest.

A splendor to wash us of contemporary ugliness.