Description:	CD on Autres Directions, ONE COPY!!
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Electronica / IDM
	Label:	Autres Directions
	Price:	£9.99
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Brian on 19 November 2006.

eem to be getting a lot of good CD albums in at the moment. So sell your world cup tickets & spend the vast proceeds on this lot I'm digging this morning. Another one is by Atone, a French dude who's built up a backdrop of organic sound, melodica, accordion, gentle synths, widescreen drums. This must be the year for ambient soundscapes to take a quantum leap into the field of progression. Or possibly I'm just sick of beats & crave more beautifully constructed textures. Yes, this is damn good too. All this from the quality Autres Directions label who brought us that brilliant Depth Affect CD! Curses, give me something to savage......

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What their label says...

Antoine Monzonis-Calvet (based in the country near Angers - France) has been an active member of the electronic / experimental / post-rock French music scene for almost ten years. This multi-instrumentalist has regularly been releasing his work over the past few years - with the different bands he’s in or through his own solo projects.

Atone is one of those solo adventures : in fact, it is his most personal one. In spring 2004, Antoine Monzonis-Calvet released Un Jour EP (« A Day EP ») on Autres Directions In Music, 5 tracks that meant a lot and got critical acclaim. A year later, the track ’Qobac Sine’ (from Un Jour EP) was re-released on Various Artists - Cottage Industries 4, Meadow by the English label Neo Ouija. The smart music of Atone was here associated with that of today’s most interesting upcomers in electronic ambiant music (Julien Neto, Praveen, Xela ,Cepia, Maps + Diagrams...).

Un An LP (« A Year LP ») was written over a year, each track being closely related to an event in the life of its creator. This utterly mastered first album is built around a unique frame, where the acoustics of an accordeon, of a voice, of a piano or of drums, are combined with pulses & textures of chiselled sounds. Above all, the melodica is the backbone of Un An LP. Atone’s world constantly refers to itself, conveying the image of an indestructible unity, of a singular & unique whole. Imposing, harmonious. However, its evocative perfume carries us, as the music goes by... Like an immense and majestic river.

A Day then. Followed by A Year. The time of departure has come. Discover a text & frame which are unique - and embark on a marvellous introspective journey recommended for fans of Cliff Martinez, Colleen, Brian Eno, Aphex Twin, Jules Verne.