catalogue

ESMERINE

LOST VOICES (CONSTELLATION)

ESMERINE - LOST VOICES 88434
format:
1 CD
release:
16.10.2015
label:
CONSTELLATION
item ID:
88434
barcode:
0666561011628
Montréal chamber rock ensemble Esmerine return with the new full-length album Lost Voices, the most dynamic and incendiary record of the group's career, following its highly-acclaimed and Juno award-winning 2013 release Dalmak.

Led by co-founders Bruce Cawdron (Godspeed You! Black Emperor) on various mallet instruments and Rebecca Foon (Thee Silver Mt.

Zion, Saltland) on cello, Esmerine also includes drummer/percussionist Jamie Thompson (The Unicorns, Islands, Little Scream) and multi-instrumentalist Brian Sanderson.

Lost Voices can fairly be called Esmerine's "rock" album, expanding upon the band's celebrated prowess at deploying structure and dynamic, balancing melodic expression against methodical restraint through a diversity of stylistic touchstones while allowing for explosive crescendos of exuberant density and maximalism that most notably distinguishes this record from previous work.

Lost Voices is a deeply satisfying and evocative journey and another brilliant iteration of Esmerine's distinctive instrumental chamber rock; cerebral and visceral, controlled and volatile, and wholly cinematic in scope throughout.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. THE NEIGHBOURHOODS RISE
  • 1.2. A RIVER RUNS THROUGH THIS CITY
  • 1.3. PAS TROP PAS TROPES
  • 1.4. 19/14
  • 1.5. A TRICK OF THE LIGHT
  • 1.6. MY MAMMA PINNED A ROSE ON ME
  • 1.7. FUNAMBULE (DEUX PAS DE SEREIN)
  • 1.8. OUR LOVE WE SING
  • 1.9. LULLABY FOR NOLA