Les Nymphes, by Martin Rev

Les Nymphes

by Martin Rev

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1.	Sophie Eagle 07:14	buy track
2.	Narcisse 04:22	buy track
3.	Triton 06:02	buy track
4.	Venise 06:22	buy track
5.	Valley Of The Butterfly 05:52	buy track
6.	Les Nymphes Et La Mer 06:31	buy track
7.	Dragonfly 06:28	buy track
8.	Phaetone 06:00	buy track
9.	Nyx 04:50	buy track
10.	Daphne 05:03	buy track
11.	Cupid 06:01	buy track
12.	Deep Temple 04:53	buy track
13.	To Vow 04:46	buy track

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Reissue (originally released 2008)

Hazy dream chronicles.

A Martin Rev album is always liable to spring a surprise. Think of the rough guitars which unexpectedly appeared on his 2003 release "To Live" instead of synthesizers. "Les Nymphes", which followed in 2008, saw Rev return to dream-laden melodic miniatures, but came from a resolutely more radical place than its predecessors.
A minimalist thread runs through Martin Rev‘s oeuvre, and yet there is an opulence, something approaching exuberance, to the pieces on "Les Nymphes". The first few seconds of the opening track "Sophie Eagle" herald a towering sonic wave, a cascade of echoes and rhythm loops, with fragments of melody and Rev’s sporadic utterances rising like whitecaps above splashing phase shifts.
References to contemporary club music, in evidence on "To Live", resurface here, along with the disconcerting guitar samples which dominated the previous album. The other tracks on "Les Nymphes" share a subcooled, dreamlike, slow rave sensibility amidst a post-industrial atmosphere which is eminiscent of Coil in the scope of its three-dimensional soundscape.

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released December 2, 2022

© 2008 Martin Rev
℗ 2022 Tapete Records

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