Montréal chamber rock ensemble Esmerine return with the new full-length album Lost Voices, the most dynamic and incendiary record of the group's career, following its highly-acclaimed and Juno award-winning 2013 release Dalmak. Led by co-founders Bruce Cawdron (Godspeed You! Black Emperor) on various mallet instruments and Rebecca Foon (Thee Silver Mt. Zion, Saltland) on cello, Esmerine also includes drummer/percussionist Jamie Thompson (The Unicorns, Islands, Little Scream) and multi-instrumentalist Brian Sanderson. Lost Voices can fairly be called Esmerine's "rock" album, expanding upon the band's celebrated prowess at deploying structure and dynamic, balancing melodic expression against methodical restraint through a diversity of stylistic touchstones while allowing for explosive crescendos of exuberant density and maximalism that most notably distinguishes this record from previous work. Lost Voices is a deeply satisfying and evocative journey and another brilliant iteration of Esmerine's distinctive instrumental chamber rock; cerebral and visceral, controlled and volatile, and wholly cinematic in scope throughout.
CONDITION: USED LIKE NEW! MINT! "PROMOTIONAL IMPRINTED ON THE COVER"
TRACK LISTINGS
1.1. THE NEIGHBOURHOODS RISE
1.2. A RIVER RUNS THROUGH THIS CITY
1.3. PAS TROP PAS TROPES
1.4. 19/14
1.5. A TRICK OF THE LIGHT
1.6. MY MAMMA PINNED A ROSE ON ME
1.7. FUNAMBULE (DEUX PAS DE SEREIN)
1.8. OUR LOVE WE SING
1.9. LULLABY FOR NOLA
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