Le Grand Sbam: Much contrasted and exploring the very rich possibilities of an instrumental ensemble…..

For the second album Furvent by Le Grand Sbam is a bigger band regarding the number of musicians. In addition and as a bonus the sonic varations has exbanded. Still Le Grand Sbam is based around  many vocalists and piano and other keys and is a true chamber rock band with great will to explore the RIO universe but also with a moderne Zeuhl touch and math rock on the agenda.

The Grand Sbam, an earthy music ensemble, embarks with Furvent on a new octet journey, meeting the wind and the elements, inspired by A. Damasio: The Horde of the Contrevent and by the symbolism of I Ching. Carved in the continuous flow of sound, the music of the ensemble is a de-fluence, a circumvention, an inflection of air and time.

Nowhere between rock, contemporary music, early music, jazz, improvisation or even electroacoustics does it overlap with our elusive present. It immerses the listener in a familiar universe with an unpredictable fate, caresses him like a gentle zephyr and propels him straight into the eye of the storm. Powerful and delicate, virtuoso and sensitive, the music of Furvent, composed for 4 hands by Guilhem Meier and Antoine Arnera, is much contrasted, exploring the very rich possibilities of an instrumental ensemble with singular and generous sounds.

Tracklist:

1. La trace

2. Nephèsh

3. Yi Yin I Tchen (Le tonnerre)

4.Yi Yin I Souen (Le vent)

5. Yi Yin I Li (Le feu)

6. Yi Yin I K’ouen (La terre)

7. Yi Yin I Touei (Le lac)

8. Yi Yin I K’ien (Le ciel)

9. Yi Yin I Kan (L’eau)

10. Yi Yin I Ken (La montagne)

11. Choon Choon

Line-up:

Antoine Arnera – Piano, electronics, voice, composition

Boris Cassone – Bass, mellotron, voice

Jessica Martin Maresco – Voice

Guilhem Meier – Drums, amplified percussions, voice, composition

Marie Nachury – Voice

Grégoire Ternois – Marimba, toms, dum dum bells, gong

Mihaï Trestian – Cymbalum

Anne Quillier – moog, rhodes, voice

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