Air Resort

Tracklisting:
01. Yoshi’s Island (07:44)
02. Meli-melo (09:33)
03. Silence Cadeau (07:32)
04. Small Village on The Hill (feat. guitar by Mark Templeton) (08:30)
05. Praw Nii (02:13)
06. Je Te Laisse Des Messages Sur Ton Décodeur (feat. sounds by Sebastién Roux) (07:38)
07. Coloriiage (09:49)

Soundscaping Records launches and proudly presents its first album release, a dreamy masterpiece by multimedial artist Christophe Bailleau – well-known by former releases on Fenêtre Records, Eglantine Records, Annexia and collaborations with a variety of artists; Neal Williams, Won, Sebastién Roux, Mark Templeton.

On Air Resort, Christophe Bailleau embarks on a journey through spacious landscapes, and it begins with the lush patterns of bells and shape-shifting waves of sounds washing ashore on Yoshi’s Island. Meli-melo is a series of overlapping hums, mellow sounds offset by a sharper, reverberating synth gradually enveloping the listener in a shimmering field of fascinating colours. Silence Cadeau strikes up with organs chiming set to tasty clicks in the backdrop, being enigmatic and majestic in build-up and reaching far into your imagination to unveil the contents of a treasure. Then Small Village on The Hill leaves the calm behind in a piece of shrill chimes and bells that increases in frequency to encompass the listener before Mark Templeton’s soothing strummed guitar chords safely harbours the tune. Praw Nii is a brilliant piece, short and expressive, and in build-up like an LFO-esque track with dark thuds and synths in concert only to fade, then return for a great encore – yet all over in mere 2 minutes. Sebastién Roux joins efforts with Bailleau’s on Je Te Laisse Des Messages Sur Ton Décodeur – and the two ably play off each other’s imaginative minds as magical tapestries of all-encompassing sounds and a multitude of textures create lush soundscapes to marvel – similar to Bailleau’s endeavours on his 2008 album on Fenêtre. The finale of Coloriiage finds Bailleau venturing into a landscape of wavy textures that spin off each other as sparks of sound wisp off into the air, and the show comes to a close with Bailleau having displayed his expertise creating magical soundscapes that manage to both come across as personal and abstract.

Mastered by Andreas Nordenstam
Artwork by Trym Asserson
Graphics by Erik Sand

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