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L'Ensemble Rayé
Performed By
L'Ensemble Rayé
Album UPC
884502715965
CD Baby Track ID
7460672
Label
Disques Rayés
Released
1990-01-01
BPM
112
Rated
0
ISRC
ushm21069495
Year
1990
Spotify Plays
597
Writers
Writer
Cédric Vuille
Pub Co
Cédric Vuille
Composer
Cédric Vuille
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Rights Controlled
Master and Publishing Grant
Rights
One-Stop: Master + 100% Pub Grant
Original/Cover/Public Domain
original
Country
Switzerland
Description
European avant-prog band L'Ensemble Raye arose from Switzerland's innovative Debile Menthol, here in their debut album from '89 giving founding members Jean-Vincent Huguenin and Cedric Vuille each a side of compelling and melodic music.
Notes
With their ukuleles, accordions, and clarinets, the quirky little instrumental tunes on L’Ensemble Rayé’s first disc certainly have a sizable share of lightheartedness and whimsy, but there’s also the occasional sense that the proceedings are about to become unhinged. Something is a bit skewed when, for example, Jean-20 Huguenin plucks his folky guitars over the steady pulse but uncertain pitch of something sounding rather like a cross between a fuzz bass and the muffled bark of a metallic dog on « Un Square au Printemps , » or when Cedric Vuille’s various multi-tracked and questionably tuned instruments (including the ever-popular « lucky ducky ») on « Renouveau Horloger » give the impression that New York no waver Rhys Chatham, with his twisted sense of rhythm and harmonics, has taken charge of an Appalachian folk outfit. The weirdness creeping in around the edges is not unanticipated, given Huguenin and Vuille’s previous involvement in Debile Menthol, a Swiss band greatly influenced by the avant-prog Rock in Opposition movement, which included such dark-horse rock outcasts as Henry Cow, Univers Zero, and Etron Fou Leloublan. This recording represents the first stage of L’Ensemble Rayé and, although credited to an « ensemble, » it’s more accurately regarded as a Huguenin and Vuille duo effort — or perhaps even two solo efforts, since the first ten tracks (combined under the heading « Même en Hiver ») were composed and arranged by Vuille and Huguenin handled the composing and arranging on tracks 11 through 17 (« Comme un Pinson dans l’Eau »).
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