Multi-instrumentalists Axel Concato and Barth Corbelet are Bolbec and as they've been friends from childhood, this album is crammed full of influences, a 'Victime De l'aube' youloung might say
This is an album that deep in the OST world of Piero Piccioni, Michel Legrand or Jonny Trunk's favourite, Basil Kirchin with a more than healthy dollop of library.
If you'd come across a track like 'Feuille D'orage' in a diggers vault you'd have to pay a hefty some to get your rare bossa flute gang banjo hands on it; worth the price of the album in itself.
Even then there's 'Vengeance Tropicale' for some Herb Alpert-ish jazz shuffle for a Sunday Afternoon or even they title tracks which is a strange blues walk al a Horace Silver meets Mark Murphy as an instrumental (wonder if someone will let it slip any of these in the Dingwalls 'tent' at WeHowHere Festival).
But there's 9 other tracks that are out there from the 70s synth pop-corn theme of 'Rue Nue', the childrens TV theme of 'Funaise' or lost in a rain forest, 'En Bermuda'; it all sounds so familiar yet it's new!
The duo are supported by the rhythm section of Notalgia 77 (still love 'The Lonliest Flower In The Village; see review HERE) but as always with such albums, great tracks like 'Nuitée' and 'À L'instar Du Flair', whilst beatifully formed, just seem a little short.
As you can tell, it's a lot to the leftfield of Batov Records 'traditional' Middle Eastern Sounds but If you know your Bruton from your KPM's, this is the must have album of the summer.
Artist: Bolbec
Title: Victime De l'aube
Release date: 9th August, 2024
Label: Batov Records
Cat. No: BTR101
Format: Digital / Bandcamp
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