Ambient duo Anjou continue their ode to instrumental whispers with new album Epithymia
As I confront the paradoxical connotations of a phrase seemingly coined by a publicist, I realize the explanation just has to be tongue-in-cheek; Anjou aren’t an “ambient power duo” at all.
It’s actually quite the opposite, in fact: everything that I’ve heard from the duo so far suggests that the music of former Labradford members Mark Nelson and Robert Donne results from a deliberate eschewing of power, whereby the sounds get about as gentle as possible without heading into established microsound territory (territory which is populated by Richard Chartier almost exclusively). But when it comes to ambient music that’s noticeably less (read: “more”)…
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