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angles

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polarités 03:35
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Voices from David Hinton's interview with Francis Bacon
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Voices from Philippe Harel and Denis Robert's "Journal intime des affaires en cours"
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attendre 03:09
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attractions 03:06
Voices from Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Kairo"
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errance 03:22
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face 05:46
Voices from Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs"
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nyodene d 07:42

about

"Each of the ten pieces has an insistent and musically coherent center but (...) peripheral elements fizz in the margins. Sampled voices break the frame, French and English, female and male, some raising issues of representation and aesthetic composition, all adding enriching friction to the music’s smooth attractions."
THE WIRE (UK) – issue 231 - May 2003

"The songs are much more heart-taking, developing lush atmospheres dipped in melancholia without sounding frail. Chauveau is a mainstay of the post-rock movement (if we can talk of a movement) and with Angles he shows that Arca could become the biggest band in the field since Tortoise and Godspeed You Black Emperor! One possible obstacle is the music's reliance on French spoken voices to develop a sub-text to these otherwise instrumental pieces. Themes of deception, erotic dysfunction and media manipulation are dear to Chauveau and empower the music with a subversiveness that is more convincing that what GYBE! has done, yet if you don't understand French, it will all sound like cliched textural backdrops to you (...). Without a single weak track and with plenty of replay appeal, Angles is a must-have and one of the best instrumental rock albums of 2003."
ALL MUSIC GUIDE (Canada) — François Couture – June 2003

"There’s a kind of pure fascination behind this band"
LE BONHEUR (Belgium)

"The music of Arca could be described as an extremely beautiful, deep and brilliant meeting of contemporary music and post-rock, with voice samples, various other atmospheres and sounds, cello, guitars, field recordings, urban ambiences, drums, violin, glockenspiel, dark feelings, intense melodies, ethereal landscapes of extreme beauty, delicate cloudy melancholic ambiences, ghost-like magic drones,… ARCA distinguishes itself by it’s originality and brilliant compositions."
PUNX (Switzerland)

"Arca's newest album is stunningly beautiful (...). Every song on Angles is positively mesmerizing and beautiful, and all of Arca's sometimes-odd instrumentation choices (which include samples that sound like broken clocks, garage-sale synthesizers, clarinets, and glockenspiel) combine to give each song a great deal of atmosphere."
JIVE (UK) - Max 'Flava' Martin - January 2004

"Leur deuxième album mêle samples, rock, boucles obsédantes, guitares et violoncelle inspirés. Prenant."
TELERAMA – n°2780 – Anne-Marie Paquotte – 26 Avril 2003

"L’émotion jaillit de ces moments fragiles et précieux (...). Arca invente une musique répétitive aventureuse, qui ne s’abaisse jamais à revenir à son point de départ."
LES INROCKUPTIBLES - Richard Robert - 02 juil. 2003

"Disque de rock concret, "Angles" invite clarinette, basse, piano ou guitare dans un environnement sonore serein, parasité par un zapping d'extraits d'entretiens (Francis Bacon) ou de films (Sam Peckinpah...)."
ARTE

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released April 1, 2003

Photographs by Karine Fages
Sleeve lay-out by Sonia Gilhodes

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Joan Cambon and Sylvain Chauveau

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