Babel 17

"Babel" is the highly-anticipated sophomore recording of the British band. The epic album finds the rock quartet continuing their effortless blend of traditional folk and rock. The group’s flawless harmonies are bone-chilling. Standouts include “Ghosts That We Knew”, “Whispers In The Dark” and “Below My Feet”. "Babel" has already been hailed by the Washington Post as one of this year’s best releases and is on track to having the best opening week of the year.

"Babel" is the highly-anticipated sophomore recording of the British band. The epic album finds the rock quartet continuing their effortless blend of traditional folk and rock. The group’s flawless harmonies are bone-chilling. Standouts include “Ghosts That We Knew”, “Whispers In The Dark” and “Below My Feet”. "Babel" has already been hailed by the Washington Post as one of this year’s best releases and is on track to having the best opening week of the year.

INDOCHINE 7 sept 24 BABEL BABEL Double album 17 titres Mixé par Mark ‘Spike’ Stent Pochette : David LaChapelle.

INDOCHINE 7 sept 24 BABEL BABEL Double album 17 titres Mixé par Mark ‘Spike’ Stent Pochette : David LaChapelle.

This is the first ever recording of Arvo Pärt’s wonderful vocal music performed by a boys’ choir. The year of release of this album is also the year when the Estonian composer celebrates his eightieth birthday. More than four decades ago, the musician Arvo Pärt fell silent, and went into retreat for eight years. His silence gave rise to a new kind of music, which has gained him international fame. “I have discovered that it is enough if a single note is beautifully played,” Pärt once said. Based on his study of the cathedrals of sound of the Renaissance or even earlier periods, the composer has developed a very personal and original style: music inspired by spirituality, striving to accomplish the ideal of perfect simplicity, of laying bare the pure essence. An everlasting stopping and pausing: eternity. At the same time a continuous flowing and being carried away: the transitory nature of time.

Improvisation, harmonic movement between organic and digital tools, confidence in oneself and the other, experimentation, action without slogans. Creation. This album is the summary of two free improvisation study sessions. In both the creative process was identical, the usual line of Corleone: there are no pacts, we directly touch. Each of our choices defines the form and concept of the piece as something alive, a path in which sometimes it seems that it is the music itself that is using us as intermediaries of that natural process.