Description:	CD on Autres Directions, limited to 250 hand-numbered copies in cardboardy packaging
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Post-Rock
	Label:	Autres Directions
	Price:	£9.79
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5
...according to our Brian on 12 November 2009.

Atone is a massively talented Frenchman who constructs some really fine quality experimental, electronic & post-rock sounds for release on the Autres Directions label. On his latest collection, 'Cet Après-Midi Là', a stuttering melancholy jazz-flecked piece gives way to a brilliantly eccentric organic "folktronic" segment which includes these lush field recordings with some sort of woodblock/xylophone cascading thing which strikes me as a most pleasing sound. He's got this woozy, hazy free-flowing thing happening with his music that keeps you consistently interested, moved & amused. It's the acoustic properties of this album that I love the most, it sounds so alive & intimate - like, for instance, sad streaks of melodica flow into organic electronics, then you've the crazy feral rhythms built from acoustic & synthetic samples which are totally intriguing. This is a wondrous widescreen collage of sound that has the feel of some kind of bizarre futuristic classical/musique concrete movement but with strong electronic/ambient & ponderous folk elements, a real progressive hybrid. Totally taken by this, a truly special CD!

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Sound clips for Cet Apres-Midi La by Atone: on CD at Norman Records UK. CD, Autres Directions, MOULIN021, £9.79.

What their label says...

Angers-based Antoine Monzonis-Calvet has been an active member of the electronic
/ experimental / post-rock French music scene for ten years. Atone is his solo
project, his most personal one.

After a promising first EP (spring 2004), Atone wrote his first whole album,
which was called Un An (2006) and was full ot atmospheric layers and sad
melodicas. Atone's world constantly refers to itself, conveying the image of an
indestructible unity, of a singular & unique whole. Imposing, harmonious. It
gave birth to an adventurous live show, where organs and computers stand face to
face to a drummer, and to a remix EP (Un An Plus Tard, 2007). With his new Cet
Après-Midi Là, Atone abandoned the numerous ambient layers which composed Un An.
He associated tones and acoustic sounds (piano, bass, drums, organ, melodica)
with synthetic sounds to create a unique sound material. The noises of everyday
life & nature, coming from the opened windows, also came to add up in his
maelstrom. Nostalgy erases from this mixture, worked between sound recordings
and reprocessings treatments.

In Cet Après-Midi Là, tracks come one after the other as a series of clichés,
each carrying its own subject, rhythm and sensation. Between harmony and
dissonance, Atone delivers a collection of nocturnal, strange pieces. Dreamy
pieces.

Tracklisting:

01. Cinq Heures Moins Le Quart
02. Dormir
03. Melodrum
04. 72 Mesures Et Plus
05. En Crue
06. Tourbillons
07. Il Pleut Dehors
08. Piano Et Orgue
09. Essai 2
10. Une Seconde Fois