Installation Sonore by <<rinôçérôse>> (CD, 1999)

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5033197072289

25050115822

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CD

1999

Installation Sonore

Electronic

55 mins 8 seconds

Rinocerose: Jean-Philippe Freu (guitar, Flamenco guitar, e-bow); Remi Saboul (guitar, lap steel guitar); Johnny Palumbo (guitar, Fender Rhodes piano, synthesizer, programming); Patrice Carrie (guitar, bass, triangle); Florian Brinker (guitar); Franck Gauthier (flute); Fred Ladoue (congas, bongos, shaker, maracas); Chris Hawkes. Additional personnel: Daniel Martinez (harmonica). Recorded at Studio Bernard Blier, Les Aubes, Montpellier, France. Personnel: Franck Gauthier (flute). A 10-person instrumental collective, mixing house beats with rocked-up, psyched-up instrumental interplay, Rinocerose is further proof that the French pop music revival isn't all Parisian lounge-techno and sweetened retro soundscapes. INSTALLATION SONORE, the Montpellier-based group's debut, veers between a variety of club-ready grooves and an iconoclastic approach to modern music making. Rinocerose's general approach is to lay down the house beats and let the guitars power chord freely. At its most freewheeling, as on the stomping Daft Punk-like opener "La Guitaristic House Organisation," this is music for party people who love to get down. However the band can be just as inclined to introspection, as on the self-descriptive "323 Secondes de Musique Repetitive avec Guitarre Espagnole." The difference between Rinocerose and most of its beat-happy counterparts is made clear on "Popular Mechanics," a slowly unfolding Spiritualized-like anthem featuring four guitars snaking under skittering hi-hats and echoed Brazilian chants.

Rolling Stone (5/25/00, p.70) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...Dance music that's as earthy as it is esoteric....the duo recombines routine dance devices into a mix that defies classification..." Entertainment Weekly (12/29/00, p.140) - Ranked #9 in EW's Top 10 Albums of 2000 - "...Puts a sly crafty grin on techno's often dour face..." CMJ (1/08/01, p.32) - Included in CMJ's "Best RPM Albums" of 2000. CMJ (3/27/00, p.24) - "...Its mesmerizing drone and twangy funk of electronic guitars , lulling flutes and dubby bass licks...links rock ethics and dance design like few albums before it."

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