French musician Olivier Perez is slowly building an impressive catalog of melancholic folk songs with his Garciaphone project. The new album Dreameater never rises above a whisper - he mostly prefers brushes to keep the beat, and keyboards and acoustic guitar are the instruments of choice to enhance the melody - pointillism set to music.
Explore the subdued intensity of A Hole In The Universe, the lure of pastoral Mourning Of The Day and the neo-psych of I'll Be A Riddle that could have been written by Jacco Gardner. Recommended if you like No Ninja Am I.
Olivier Perez: guitars, vocals, drums, keyboards, percussion
Christophe Adam: double bass on 2
Zacharie Boissau: piano, keyboards, backing vocals on 2
Julie Lopez: backing vocals on 2, 5 and 7
Matthieu Lopez: bass, electric guitar
Dreameater is released on Tiny Room Records (vinyl, CD, digital).
Tracks:- Don't Let It Die Like This
- Oh Sleepless World
- Heirmet
- I'll Be A Riddle
- Mourning Of The Day
- Deadstar
- Every Song Of Sorrow Is New
- A Hole In The Universe
- Our Time To Spare
- Dusk