Saratoga is a couple: ChantalArchambault and Michel-Olivier Gasse. We will also see the tandem again on the last day of the Francos, among Les polissons de la chanson, celebrating Brassens. Above all, we like their voices, these soft timbres intertwined for two albums. That is to say that we receive outside the curriculum what Forests all instrumental, played for four in a studio chalet in Saint-Zénon, recorded during the winter… and the pandemic. With Mathieu Charbonneau and Guillaume Bourque, the ad hoc group offers a bouquet of contemplative pieces, barely noisier than forests in January. That’s the idea. Calm and beauty. Basic piano-bass, with other keyboards here and there, sometimes synths, good old round Fender Rhodes. It buzzes like under a comforter, it bewitches. Heavenly echoes shine on the white tablecloths. This is the title of the third piece, better than Forestswhich describes the experience: All life forms slowed down. At the end, we can’t wait for the lovebirds to start singing again.
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