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年份 2022
藝人 Esmerine
專輯   Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More (CD)
廠牌   Constellation
樂風   Instrumental, Neo Classic

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週一睡醒昏沉沉,有時會想辦法在往學校或公司的通勤途中聽些能讓腦袋稍微清醒的音樂,像 Esmerine 這樣以室內樂配制為核心的後搖滾作品或許可以是一種選擇。

以 Set Fire To Flames、錫安山大提琴手 Rebecca Foon 與前 GY!BE 打擊樂成員 Bruce Cawdron 為核心的 Esmerine 來到了第七張專輯《Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More》,如果聽過那些他們待過的樂團或許就能想像音樂的可能樣貌,新古典、爵士、民族音樂、後搖滾兼具,在他們的音樂裡沒有落差很大的激情,鋼琴、弦樂、管樂、打擊樂的行徑貼近正常的心跳,是一種穩定的感覺。

「一切都是永恆的,直到它不再存在」專輯名稱很美,也是整張專輯設法找到的狀態,在有和沒有間的平衡,以混沌為中心圍繞的精靈。

Rooted in a distinct and immediately identifiable sound—with the cello of Rebecca Foon (Saltland, Set Fire To Flames, Thee Silver Mt Zion) and the marimba of ex-Godspeed You! Black Emperor percussionist Bruce Cawdron at its core—Esmerine has long embroidered emotive chamber works using threads of post-classical, post-rock, Minimalism, neo-Baroque, jazz, pop and a wide array of folk traditions. Multi-instrumentalist Brian Sanderson, who joined the group in 2012, has furthered Esmerine s melodic and ethnomusicological sensibility ever since, expanding the ensemble s palette as its third core member with guitars, ngoni, ekonting, hulusi, brass horns of all sorts, and more.

Since 2003, six stately and filmic instrumental albums have inscribed compositional landscapes through epigrammatic miniatures, longform multi-movement chronicles, and all manner of evocative musical prosody between. Marked by an inimitably turbid yet tempered pastoralism, alternately lit by dappled dawn and disquieted dusk, Esmerine s musical narratives balance asceticism and romanticism, melancholy and hope, stillness and wanderlust.

Esmerine now shares Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More, its seventh full-length album and first in five years. The band surprise-dropped the full album digitally on 06 May 2022, with the CD and Deluxe 180gram LP editions hitting stores on official release date 26 August 2022.

Following an acclaimed run of mid-career records on Constellation through the 2010s—the last three of which have all been finalists or winners of Juno Awards for Instrumental Album of the Year and/or Album Packaging of the Year—Esmerine began working on new music at decades end. Under the auspices of a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, and a summer 2019 residency at Le Château de Monthelon (an artist commune in France where the band has cherished long-standing spiritual, creative, and personal connections), compositional seeds were planted—and then pandemic rooted everyone in place. In between lockdown waves, at the respective rural Québec homesteads of Cawdron and Foon, longtime co-producer Jace Lasek (The Bernard Lakes) began capturing the band in various stripped-down configurations with spartan remote equipment. More fulsome arrangement and overdub sessions at Foon s converted barn during the summer of 2021 brought the album to full fruition—where a notable increase in the use of acoustic piano also poured forth, with just about every band member having a go. The record also signals the definitive integration of bassist Philippe Charbonneau—having joined Esmerine as a touring member pre-pandemic, he plays throughout the album on upright and electric bass, with turns on piano and synth, as well as sound design contributions via tape echo and other processing.

Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More grapples with the existential tensions between atmosphere and airlessness, seclusion and claustrophobia, forbearance and coalescence. In many ways it is one of Esmerine s most restrained records. Only a few passages are driven by full percussion. There is palpably less Sturm and Drang or overt crescendos compared to its recent predecessors. The new album roils with a different sort of dynamic intensity, where instrumental densities ebb and flow within an overtonal centre, melding into each other with gauzy timbral warmth, sometimes tracing fleeting tendrils outwards, but always rotating around a saturnine gravitational force. Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More is like a dark forest lit by a closely-orbiting opalescent planet; it could be the alternate score to Von Trier s Melancholia or Cormac McCarthy s The Road.



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