It’s not exactly unusual to come across an artist who shirks the public eye in favor of making their music the centerpiece, but if we take a moment to place a dim spotlight on the French Arandel, one quickly realizes how folks like Marcus Eoin and Mike Sandison really don’t know shit about modesty. Being selective and/or universally exclusionary when it comes to doing interviews is one common method of shifting attention away from the person(s), but Arandel… he’s taking lack-of-pretense to levels rivaled only by the unexcitable sloth (whom his mask sort of resembles), if the sloth took things down a notch by evolving camouflage fur. The inconspicuousness extends deeper, too…
Separate from the concealed identity, Arandel’s musical work is said to deliberately avoid production “tricks.” In this rare interview, he claims a total unfamiliarity with Logic and associated plug-ins, and his 2012 debut album In D was composed entirely through the sampling of live instruments. Widely praised that album was, and with the upcoming Solarispellis (out November 24), there’s no sign of a shift in philosophy, even if there may be a shift in style:
Blatantly electronic-sounding! No-frills production is all the more impressive when it leads to colorful and complex tracks like the above. I’m on the verge of fetishizing confetti.
Solarispellis tracklisting:
01. Opening Section
02. Section 7
03. Section 11
04. Interlude (Variation on Section 12)
05. Section 9
06. Section 10 (1st & 2nd Movements)
07. Section 13
08. Interlude (Variation on Section 6)
09. Section 12
10. Section 10 (3rd Movement)
11. Section 8
12. Finale Section
• Arandel: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Arandel/128193290527804
• InFiné: http://www.infine-music.com
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