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la Maison Tellier - Avalanche

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  • 2016
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It is an avalanche indeed. Not a snow avalanche, but a note avalanche, a word avalanche, an avalanche of metaphysics and American wide-open spaces (or the idea of them). Prepare yourself for travelling to the sound of their very good guitar arpeggios ("Amazone", "Garçon Manqué"), or their tonic counterpoints from the trumpet player Frederic [Leopold Tellier].

Here is something endearing I have trouble describing, between folk and French chanson, carried from beginning to end by the gentle voice of Yannick [Helmut Tellier], sometimes with some inflections à la Gerard Manset ("J'Ai Rêvé d'Avalanches"). An album permanently at a balance point. On the one hand, “the joy of the simple fact of living”, beautiful and sure, one of those which make you kiss a frog, and not even to conjure a princess! On the other hand, these moments when you wonder who you are, where you come from and what you’re doing on earth ("Quelqu'un d'Autre").

If "Cinq Est le Numéro Parfait", this 5th album of our 5 mates is not perfect all the same. Much as its 6 first songs are good, hit-like, with a music which seems to flow easily, the rest, yet not bad, seems a little more convoluted, either in the lyrics, or in the music. With as epilogue an interlacing of electric guitar and horns ("Taros"). It was an avalanche indeed.



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  • The songs line up between 2 minutes 30 and 5 minutes 30 – for 39 minutes in total.

    At the top of the scale, the declamatory and testamentary "Haut, Bas, Fragile", wordy, linear and crescendo, contains so many finds and consistency that I could have extracted several times a line for my section "The sentence" hereinafter (“Thou learn to crush thy neighbour since school”, “To know you end up alone, no need to study”, “I can’t no longer manage to be angered with my ass in an armchair”...)

    At the bottom of the scale, its exact opposite: a lighter, lively, rhythmic, accessible, immediate "Beautiful Again".

    Oh yes, La Maison Tellier is that all, rich but consistent. And it makes you want to come back.

  • J'Ai Rêvé d'Avalanches
    Haut, Bas, Fragile
    Cinq Est le Numéro Parfait
  • En Toutes Choses
  • The sentence

    “L'amour devenait un hobby, une triste parodie, un poulet du dimanche” ("J'Ai Rêvé d'Avalanches")

  • them
    lamaisontellierofficiel.fr (135 Hits)
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Maison_Tellier_(group) (148 Hits)
  • ...And now, listen!
    • www.deezer.com/album/11800736 (188 Hits)
    • open.spotify.com/album/6uJrH2dyEJBmqrAISjW4tL (158 Hits)
    • www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTRWHFX88ng&list=OLAK5uy_kiSZ10ohljyac63OLaCGTTIaTWzMK3Uj4 (93 Hits)
  • Tags
    La Maison Tellier | brass | spaces | balance | French chanson | Manset | folk

  • To be appreciated too...
    la Maison Tellier
    Primitifs modernes
        2019

    Instinctive intellectuals
      De Palmas
    La Beauté du Geste
        2016

    Mirror, mirror on the wall...
      Tom McRae
    Did I Sleep and Miss the Border
        2015

    Do not sleep, do not miss him


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    28 January 2017

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