Miriodor: Mekano: reviews

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Mekano

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Mekano

Cuneiform | RUNE 148 | 2001

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Review

by Massimo Ricci in Touching Extremes (Italy), March 25, 2002 |2191|

“… they’re spirited, funny and dramatic at the same moment…”

What a pleasant surprise, having Miriodor back in my favorites. This record shows them in great shape, sculpting and creating intricacies of MIDI links that continuously mesh with oblique guitar/bass lines, interesting sax parts and a very hard effort (by Remi Leclerc) on drums. The good news: everything sounds fresher than in the last couple of albums by the group; sometimes, it looked to me that they were searching difficulties for themselves, without too much of a musical sense. Now they’re spirited, funny and dramatic at the same moment, and some of the tracks are really stunning and instrumentally eclectic.


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Critique

by Nicolas Houle in Voir (Québec), September 1, 2001 |2192|

“… un monde fascinant dont l’immense richesse se révèle au fil des écoutes.”

De retour après cinq années de silence discographique, Miriodor offre avec Mekano l’une de ses oeuvres les plus achevées. Suite logique à Jongleries élastiques, Mekano mise sur les guitares inventives de Bernard Falaise, les savantes lignes de clavier de Pascal Globensky ainsi que les rythmiques syncopées et proprement hallucinantes du batteur Rémi Leclerc et du nouveau bassiste Nicolas Masino. Le quatuor originaire de Québec présente ainsi une art rock subtile et rigoureusement orchestrée, un monde fascinant dont l’immense richesse se révèle au fil des écoutes.

Véritable cocktail de trouvailles musicales, Mekano est sans contredit une réussite, bien que sa densité risque d’en effrayer plus d’un.


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