Les espaces inquiets
by Art Zoyd
- Type: Album
- Released: 1983
- Label: Cryonic
- Country: France
- Length: 2:23:37
- Community rating: 4.01/5 from 7 ratings
Artists on this release: Divine Records, Thierry Zaboitzeff, Gérard Hourbette, Jean-Pierre Soarez
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Moving further away from their strictly acoustic, Zeuhl-adjacent origins, the French avant-garde ensemble heavily integrated early analog synthesizers and samplers into this deeply unsettling suite. 'Les espaces inquiets' weaves aggressive, staccato string arrangements and blaring brass with chilling electronic textures, conjuring a tense, cinematic atmosphere. The challenging compositions highlight their masterful ability to blend contemporary classical dissonance with the rhythmic intensity of progressive rock.
Genres
Descriptors: Avant Garde, progressive, avant-garde, atmospheric, fantasy, experimental, orchestral, theatrical, dissonant, chamber, ensemble
Tracklist
- Légendes: la forêt qui avance (3:47)
- Cérémonie (9:12)
- Image d'une ville poussière: errance (4:47)
- Image d'une ville poussière: cortège des officiels (4:30)
- Image d'une ville poussière: au delà des vallées (4:08)
- Migrations (13:08)
- Légendes: le bruit du fer (3:06)
- Tat d'urgence (14:45)
- Naufrage (6:42)
- Dernière danse (4:34)
- Deux préludes (2:14)
- La musique d'Erich Faes (0:13)
- Et avec votre esprit (5:17)
- Ballade (4:05)
- Chemins de lumière (15:15)
- Du sang sur la neige (4:18)
- Vue d'un manège (4:11)
- La nuit (13:05)
- Les larmes de Christina (3:43)
- Ex tractu do inaucauit (2:55)
- Le comba des dragons (1) (2:46)
- Le comba des dragons (final) (1:51)
- Malbodium: sommeil du noble (0:42)
- Malbodium: entrée (1:33)
- Malbodium: églises (1:18)
- Don Juan: danse macabre (1:22)
- Don Juan: le bain (1:38)
- Don Juan: la sainte famille (3:10)
- Un jour au château: le parc (1:07)
- Un jour au château: le matin (1:55)
- Un jour au château: le secret (1:29)
- Don Juan: le bain (final) (0:36)
Credits
- Didier Pietton - alto saxophone [alto sax], tenor saxophone [tenor sax], percussion
- Thierry Zaboitzeff - bass, cello, guitar, voice, tape, synthesizer, written-by
- Patricia Dallio - electric piano [yamaha], piano [steinway]
- Jean-Pierre Soarez - trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion
- Gérard Hourbette - viola, violin, synthesizer, percussion, written-by
- Art Zoyd - Primary Artist