Description:	Nice CD on Home Normal (David Wengrenn of Library Tapes and Danny Norbury), limited to 1000 copies
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Ambient
	Label:	Home Normal
	Price:	£8.19
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

5
...according to our Brian on 29 October 2009.

Well as dream collaborations go, Le Lendemain is a pretty fine start, this duo being comprised of Library Tapes' David Wengrenn & man of the moment Danny Norbury. 'Fires' is actually their second combined effort (the first being LT's beautiful 'Sketches') and is a CD on ambient/drone/neo classical behemoth Home Normal. Some of the intertwining cello work on this magical CD recalls Dirty Three or Godspeed's more tranquil moments while sombre piano exploration, Dulcitone embellishment and brittle swathes of field recordings tinker busily below the surface, hardly audible. As far as contemporary classical albums go, 'Fires' is by far one of the most evocative & free-flowing. You'd swear there was a multitude of chamber players at work here by the way the strings have been edited & layered - the sheer grace & fluidity, the way it all segues & flows, as a cello stroke starts to fade, another swoops in leaving you feeling touched by magic. Seeing how much I love the work of Arvo Pärt & Max Richter, this wonderful, atmospheric collection will no doubt be filed lovingly alongside them when I retire to my peaceful lakeside cottage in the isolated far North. A very precious blending of talents! Ltd to 1000 for the world.

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Sound clips for Fires by Le Lendemain: on CD at Norman Records UK. CD, Home Normal, n007, £8.19.

What their label says...

Le Lendemain is the new project between Danny Norbury and David Wengrenn. Following on from their early collaboration under David’s Library Tapes moniker (Sketches), we find the pair delivers a more personal album of hazy dialogues.

There are real moments on this record where you feel that you are let into the private lives of it composers; tracks such as ‘Lois’, where they are telling the tale of a friend. Other times the mystical finds it way to the mix as with ‘Petrichor’, where the organic lays on a bed of electronic sounds that have managed to find there way on to tape by some ESP. The depth of sound throughout this album make you constantly reassess what you are hearing as your focus is shifting to the fore and background.

Writing about such music is always difficult, as words can never really penetrate the emotion of sounds. The music from this album is a journey of two instruments and the outside world, what it adds up to is a Soundtrack to the moments of unconsciousness, of times when one is dreaming, or the beautiful in between state. Conversations where you understand completely yet are unaware of the tongue. This delicate music, that is so skillfully weaved together of the most fragile fibers that one false move would result in the whole thing falling apart.

Tracklisting:

01. fiore
02. petrichor
03. linden
04. att andas
05. narbonne
06. Lois
07. paus
08. le fleuve
09. even with eyes closed