Arno Alyvan - Tandem OST
Watch out for a second tandem
Follow him!
A composer’s temptation is high, in this kind of exercise, to take an only theme, to offer variations of it and never give it up. Just to give a unity to the sound background of the series. Not here. There is not one theme... but several. Besides the main theme ("Tandem (Soler et Marchal)"), you have the themes from the songs "Follow Me", "Sitting in the Middle", "Hush" and "Même Combat". Each of these themes can be found again in the instrumentals coming after or before. More or less. Sometimes the chord grid only.
"Follow Me", the excellent opening title, almost disco (not as much as its homonym by Taï Phong), has some likeness to "It's Raining Men". Like I said, the following instru, "Feelgood Temptation", takes the theme, and could even have been slipped in the same track, as an outro.
If you still find the mastery of pop instrumentation or – seldom – atmospheric instrumentation ("Hidden"), which Arno Alyvan got us used to with Caïn, this time gives rather often a good funk groove, supported by the bass, Stéphane Gest’s trumpet ("Falcon Flowers") and a lot of rhythm.
Carried away by Arno and Bernard Rubio, the guitars go palm-mute, the guitars go wah-wah.
Some instrumentals (typically "Family Comedy" or "Paul Holmes") smell good like the 70’s-80’s movies with Pierre Richard (those with Vladimir Cosma’s music).
In the likeness range, the astounding "On my Way" violently reminds me of Daran’s "Violence Zéro".
But you haven’t seen all the palette of musical styles yet. As a way to offset the lightness of pop or funk pieces, it also looks a lot towards classical music, with the contribution of fretted strings instruments. Frédéric Deville’s cello in a beautiful 2-part "Déambulations" (slow then fast). Théo Croix’s violin, superb, in "Hush" – and in other places- reminds me of how much I liked this instrument.
Seemingly the production put the budget for all these instruments, for all these musicians. It did well.
The very songs are 6 in number, all sung with character by GWTG, who is also the author of the lyrics in English. I award the prize to the languorous "Sitting in the Middle", of which the a cappella final (she doubles her voice with some hmm’s) is delightful.
Behind the series tandem, there is another tandem indeed. The soundtrack tandem. Formed by Arno and his lucky singer. Even mixing their voices in "Même Combat" (with lyrics in French, for once). So a tandem who won their spurs since Caïn Season 2. (At that time I didn’t know who this singer was. Now I know, but I respect her choice of using a pseudonym.)
Anyway, the result is brilliant for sure. Follow him!
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68 minutes, 24 tracks, that enables lots of things! Varied things. Short instrumentals with a strong personality which may enable future developments across the next seasons of the series. Or even their transformation into songs, for Arno already did such in the past.
And a bit longer pieces, generally the songs. Too much length probably in "Happy Ending", hardly saved by a beautiful violin solo at the end. Luckily, you aren’t left a bit hungry for more; you have a right to a second end with a "Sweet Lullaby". -
Sitting in the Middle
Follow Me
Who to Blame -
Romance Comedy
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The sentence
“You know you wanna move until your feet can’t do it no more” ("Follow Me")
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himarnoalyvan.com (1022 Hits)
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...And now, listen!
- www.deezer.com/en/album/42743621 (466 Hits)
- open.spotify.com/album/5sKqMa4jX0QpnNSo7RgBap (338 Hits)
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Created06 October 2017
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