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Albums
Aquarelle
Barem
Biosphere
Chubby Wolf
Collard-Neven
Cuni & Durand
FareWell Poetry
Field Rotation
Fonogram
Keith Freund
Freiband
Buckminster Fuzeboard
Harley Gaber
Richard Ginns
Grauraum
Hilton/Phillips
Jenny Hval
Jasper TX
Kenneth Kirschner
The Last Hurrah!!
Letna
The Lickets
Melorman
Penalune
Mat Playford
Radiosonde
Salt Lake Electric Ens.
Will Samson
Janek Schaefer
Phillip Schroeder
Silkie
Sølyst
Swimming
Nicholas Szczepanik
Talvihorros
Kanazu Tomoyuki
Luigi Turra
Watson & Davidson
y0t0
You
Compilations / Mixes
Bleak Wilderness Of Sleep
Lee Curtiss
Deep Medi Volume 3
Goldie
Goldmann & Johannsen
Heidi
Mindfield
Priestley & Smith
SM4 Compilation
EPs
Agoria
Bop Singlayer
Botany
Duprass
Margaret Dygas
Fennesz
Golden Gardens
I Am A Vowel
Mobthrow
Dana Ruh
I Am A Vowel:
Body Curves
Fang Bomb
Nelly Larguier is hardly what one would call prolific. Her latest I Am a Vowel release, the seven-inch vinyl EP Body Curves (packaged in a lovely full-colour sleeve, the disc is available in an edition of 200 copies) appears three years after her debut album Et Op La Bang, and its four songs amount to about half of the earlier work's twenty-five-minute running time. Originally from Paris but now rooted in London, Larguier once again presents low-key, subdued, and intimate settings that are much like electro-acoustic diary records she's decided to share with us. The material is split into vocal and instrumental pieces, with Larguier's delicate, sometimes multi-tracked voice assuming a strong AGF-like character during the two brooding “Scarlette” versions when French and English words stream across electric guitar strums and field recordings of crashing waves. On the instrumental front, “Take It Easy” is an atmospheric dronescape sprinkled with footsteps, while the title track is a drifting dreamscape of high-pitched tones and muffled voices that includes a bass drum pulse persisting throughout like a heartbeat. One might characterize the EP's material as some imagined collaboration between AGF and Popol Vuh—a promising combination, even if only a small amount of it's available to be heard.
September 2011