Call it artistic love at first sight. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith fell in love with her composition work for the image, particularly for her original music for the film minari (2020) by Lee Isaac Chung, and Emile Mosseri fell in love with the composer’s impressionist ambient frescoes. The pandemic has welded their musical universes together on this double (but short) album of vaporous songs like the mist at dawn. The synthesizer expert orchestrates her new friend’s song ideas, conceived on the upright piano; timbres and textures, like the two voices of the musicians, overlap over the course of these 13 short songs which merge into each other as a single work, divided if not into two sides, the first part of this project having first presented last fall. It flows, the harmonies spread in the surrounding air, forming a serene and comforting proposal; If you liked Patrick Watson’s latest album, listen.
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