VERONIQUE VILHET /
DOMINIQUE GRIMAUD
ÎLES
Format: LP vinyl
Label: In-Poly-Sons
(France)
Recording date: 2013/2014/2015
Release date: 2016
Véronique Vilhet: drums, balafon, jew’s harp / Dominique Grimaud: guitars, épinette des Vosges, alto and baritone sax.
Inspired by Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky (Particular Books, 2010). The drums and the Fender Stratocaster guitar are the main instruments, always with this search for simplicity and purity, and the unusual practice of open tunings, like those used by Nick Drake, Peter Finger or Michael Hedges.
Press:
“Bizarre journeys, geographical absurdities, surreal topography - French literature has thrived on such departures from familiar locations and everyday routine… oblique conceptions such as Raymond Roussel's Impressions of Africa, in which a worm plays a zither... Îles has the appeal of a cabinet of curiosities...” Julian Cowley THE WIRE
“Ces orientations orchestrales d'une grande sobriété créent les conditions idéales pour que l'imaginaire puisse prendre ses aises partout.” Paul-Yves Bourand, REVUE & CORRIGÉE.