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COLLECTION D'ARNELL-ANDREA Noticed in 1988 by the english label VALOTTE Rds, the group COLLECTION D'ARNELL-ANDREA, reduced at this time to the founder nucleus (Chloé St Liphard / Jean-Christophe d'Arnell), records the 4 tracks of its first 12" entitled "Autumn's Breath for Anton's Death". This record, unobtainable these days, presents a musical atmosphere particulary deep and bewitching, that, at once appealed to both sides of the Channel. The Autumn, obsession and leitmotiv of the french group (became at this time a quintet), will see the first LP of COLLECTION D'ARNELL-ANDREA coming out in 1989, thanks to the parisian label Lively Art/New Rose. "Un Automne à Loroy", real funeral oration, coloured by the Autumn, in which stands out Chloé's voice and the long sob of the cello, has a warm wellcome from the press, in France and abroad. The music of COLLECTION D'ARNELL-ANDREA is original because it realizes the perfect assimilation of instruments a priori antinomic : on a background of a minimum and metronomic rythm composer, blend the bass guitar, the cello, the simply or symphonic layers of the keyboards, and at least the voice, real instrument too. As for the lyrics, they have certain similarities to Symbolism Poetry, arousing pictures of quiescent residences, pond under the snow and old memories, lost in the foggy mornings of the bygone days... Hoped by more and more fans, the new LP of COLLECTION D'ARNELL-ANDREA, entitled "Au Val Des Roses" comes out in Autumn 1990, again with Lively Art/New Rose. The 8 tracks of this record may seem different from each others, but in fact, they all join in the "deep and tenebrous unity" of what we have to name from now on : The proper Style of COLLECTION D'ARNELL-ANDREA. "This music is both impassioned and ravishing. Entrance me to the end of love." (D. Simpson / MELODY MAKER). "The style of this french combo could almost be categorised as a form of chamber music in which they add droning bass, drum machine and the etheral vocals of Chloé St Liphard to violins and cellos." (FOR THE RECORD). "You can hear a connection to the old parlor orchestras from the turn of the century ; hauntingly beautiful strings, with a driving bass line, and flowing, lush harmonies and... Well, what else could you want ?"(Ken DEWDROPS). At the beginning of 1992, that is to say, a little more than a year after their previous record, the members of COLLECTION D'ARNELL-ANDREA finally unveil "Les Marronniers", a genuine album with 11 tracks. This third album remind these introspective journeys that charm and change anyone who enters into them. A "search" where the sincerity is omnipresent, immortalizing in this way, a strange universe of Nature, memories, fears and dreams. Then, the emotions follow one another, from beginning to end, and "bunches" of cellos, pianos and voices come from more classical constructed songs. The fourth album, "Villers-Aux-Vents" (released in 1994) is a solemn promenade into the sombre universe of the 1914-1918 war. Soldiers, burried victims, crosses, muddy shadows in the trenches... The music is pure COLLECTION D'ARNELL-ANDREA, but perhaps more tense than ever, with distorded guitars evoking the tragedy of the fights. Four Albums tinged with poetry, spleen and eternity... Four Albums which have succeed in moving Californians, chinese journalists of Taïwan, or many radios from Brazil, Portugal, Belgium and somewhere else... A french music that proves that "COLLECTIONNISM" is an universal mode. |
