“Unlimited Future”, Éisénia Orchestra

The excess of this “French-speaking pop opera” is charming: behind the initiative lies the pure pleasure of creating something that stands out as unique, detached from any imperative of profitability. Think about it: there are a dozen musicians (including Agathe Dupéré, aka pataugeoire), narrators, composers, arrangers (delightful work by Elyze Venne-Deshaies) who have worked on Unlimited futurea baroque pop-rock work traversed by the voice of soprano Sarah Albu responding to that of multi-instrumentalist Benjamin Bleuez. What does it tell? Mystery. It is about God, artificial intelligence (AI alone knows), of our idols (ZZ Top). The first album of the Éisénia Orchestra is, in this respect, turned towards the orchestral pop of the 1970s, strings, brass, choirs and synths furnishing the vaguely psychedelic musical space without being outdated — the group cites the influence of Robert Wyatt and Debussy, we also hear the music of Hair, flashes of Ferland’s Jaune, Osstid’cho, Infonie, less fierce: disheveled and endearing.

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