Manafonistas

Looking back on this year this album is clearly my favourite. I followed Sylvie Courvoisier from the beginnings of her musical career through many years and musical constellations. She is maybe the musician i wrote about most. I should collect and review my texts one of these days. This new album is again a big leap in her development. At this moment she already has formed another new group, called POPPY SEEDS, that is as bold as CHIMAERA. It comprises Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Thomas Morgan (bass) and Dan Weiss (drums). 

The richness, clarity and depth of the music of this album offers a secret and at the same time evident impact. It owns an astounding deep calmness going together with a high level of inner rhythmic agility in its yearning melos.

It has a transitional quality beyond icon and fresco, hovering between the echoes of the shimmering of the winding road of a lived past and the emergence of the whispering of imagined peaceful horizons.

1. 1. Fire! Orchestra: Echoes
   2. Roger Eno: the skies, they shift like chords
   3. Billy Valentine & The Universal Truth
   4. PJ Harvey: I Inside The Old Year Dying
   5. Morton Feldman: Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello
   6. Ferdi Schuster: Playing Life
   7. Valtteri Laurell Nonet: tigers are better looking
   8. Yaeji: With A Hammer
   9. Natural Information Society: Since Time Is Gravity
   10. Aja Monet: when the poems do what they do
   11. The Stance Brothers: Duktus
   12. The Necks: Travel