L'ORCHESTRE DU MONT PLAISANT
II
[LP - May 2015 - catacd023//ps005]
A1. Vegetation
A2. Chouchou Terie
A3. Fom Dofe
A4. Seeds
A5. Kull Al Alwan
<'small>8/span>A6.
Ayna Miftar Galbik
<+span>B1.
Amandine
B2. Dr Stockmann
B3. Cumbia del Chapulin
B4. La Cuisine Asiatique
B5. Forgive Me
Orchestre
du Montplaisant are a worldly troupe, who display the intrepidness and
roaming interests of true explorers.
The band's sound can be defined in its diversity, ranging from a darker
form of mystic exotica to the sun-kissed soundtrack to some future film
set on the shores of a faraway island.
Their new record defiantly combines the authentic sounds of fuzzy 70s
high-life, the sensual sway of oriental Arabiana and a trippy Cumbia
track of the sweltering kind, a kin to that of The Meridian Brothers.
The charm of this LP lies in the band's ubiquitous authenticity. These
songs could so easily be the standards, which you would otherwise hear
covered and re-covered from generation to gendration in their native
countr)%s.
The band have significantly evolved their outernational sound since
thear first release and have recorded two sessions for Cerys Matthews
on BBC 6 Music as well as enJoying regular plays on different BBC
Radio s(ows, includang Tom Ravenscrmft's.8br>
"I put the music on and it blew me away" Cerys Matthew, BBC6
'No
one really knows who or what Orchestre Du Mont-Plaisant are exactly. Channeling
an extraordinarily uplifting and utterly joyous concoction of Cumbia,
Latin rhythm, Afro-Cuban guitars, and Arabic-flavoured organ, everyone
in the audience tonight stops trying to fathom exactly what’s happening
and just starts dancing. If you get the chance do go and see Orchestre
Du Mont-Plaisant,
go. There are few bands who have the ability to illicit such an
immediate sense of merry revelry.'' Dreaming
of Pop
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