Baikonour - Your Ear Knows Future

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3...according to our Phil on Thu 29 Jan, 2009.

I had no idea what to write about this new Baikonour CD on Melodic. It's called 'Your Ear Knows Future' and now I'm stuck about what to write. All I can think of is Pink Floyd and prog. There's a lot of prog about these days... prog and synth. I'm not mad keen on either to be honest. Maybe in another dimension or in years to come I'll get it. There's hope for Genesis yet. Thankfully this isn't like Genesis and like I say it's latter Pink Floyd era with the guitar sounding a bit like Vini Reilly at times. The cover is well mystical as well adding to the whole proggyness of it all. I'm sure they used to sound more Krautrocky than this.

Your Ear Knows Future is the second album by Brighton’s Baikonour, aka Jean- Emmanuel Krieger. Three years on from For The Lonely Hearts Of The Cosmos, his acclaimed debut, Baikonour has delivered another burst of smart, proggy poptronica, bursting with Gallic charm and myriad, fully realised ideas.

Krieger was born in Versailles, France, the city that has also spawned Air and Phoenix. But it’s Brighton that he calls home and where the album was recorded, with Jean-Emmanuel playing all the instruments on the record bar the drums. Fujiya & Miyagi’s Lee Adams fills in there.

Your Ear Knows Future finds Baikonour making confident strides as an artist, turning in a collection of tracks that fuse electronica with motorik Krautrock and the dynamics of MBV and The Cocteau Twins. Never straying from Krieger’s modus operandi: to mix electronic and traditional instruments and produce music with timeless quality. In describing
individual tracks, Krieger cites Amon Duul 2, Popol Vuh, Harold Budd, Eno Harmonia, Neu! Vangelis, Magma and Melody Nelson-era Gainsbourg as inspirations.

Vinyl edition strictly limited to 250 copies and contains a free mp3 download of the full album.

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