🔸 What a wonderful discovery this album is! Perfect to take you out of your comfort zone. Maybe you’ve listened similar stuff before but I bet you’ve never listened something like this before! ‘Amra’ will surprise you every step of the way. Welcome to the Nomadic World of Bruno Karnel & Frédéric Gerchambeau!
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‘Amra’ will surprise you every step of the way
🔸 This is not for everyone folks!, if you know what I mean. Nothing made to be ‘mainstream-friendly’ at all, rather to satisfy the most demanding sonic explorers, always in search of the incredible in music. This is a journey you won’t regret to take. Just lay back, open up your ears, and enjoy the ride!
The music on ‘Amra‘ is hypnotic and mystifying, always trying to stay on the outstanding side of things
🔸 At first listening, Robert Fripp’s Frippertronics and his other solo stuff comes to mind, but with a twist. I can hear echos of experimental King Crimson and Fripp’s works. A very atractive mix of electro-acoustic music, with a solid rock layer underneath.
Bruno Karnel’s somewhat doom-and-gloom voice (after the style of his much-loved Marta Töpferová) soars over the tracks like a melancholic bird
1. Cérès Bus Stop (07:43)
Master Frédéric Gerchambeau’s modular synthesizers almost take the stage on this album, but they’re smartly counter-balanced by harsh post-rock guitars and Karnel’s voice
2. Îles espace (08:44)
‘Amra’ (which means ‘Eternity’, in Sanskrit) is a bold, highly ambitious and complex work, surprising all the way, an ahead-of-the curve album, where you never know what’s round the corner
3. Ghost (07:15)
“Karnel’s Nomadic Rock is a mandala where guitars dance the saraband with Ukrainian mandolin, Peruvian charango or Turkish saz”
4. Plusieurs fins de chapitre (07:53)
Bruno Karnel’s influences (Peter Gabriel, HF Thiéfaine, Steven Wilson, Marta Töpferová, Jacques Lacarrière) join forces with Frédéric Gerchambeau’s passion for keyboard-driven avant-garde adventures
5. Alphoméga (07:49)
‘The interested ears will listen echos of Thiéfaine, Peter Hammill, Dead Can Dance or even early Anathema‘
6. Tutayan (08:48)
‘The acme is the terrifying ‘Axolotl’, a 16-minutes Proteus where Van der Graaf Generator’s spirit of chaos drowns memories of 90’s doom!’
7. Axolotl (16:21)
- Sources: Bruno Karnel · La Musique Dans La Plume
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