Nov 20 2008 1:18 pm,
Angil & Hiddentracks
‘Ouliposaliva’
(Chemikal Underground)
‘Ouliposaliva’ revolves around an inventive, naturalistic and watertight musical device that shapes, guides and informs the direction of the record completely. Angil & Hiddentracks head honcho Mickael Mottet (louche, jazzy French soothsayer) elected to banish the letter ‘E’ from the whole thing – the chord and the letter in the lyrics and even from the lyric book and sleeve. If you listened without this knowledge, you’d appreciate the emotive turns of phrase, the moody piano, the minimal strings, woodwind and horns in accompaniment (there’s no rock here) and the atmosphere of calm assertion. With the knowledge, though, it becomes an even more ingenious undertaking, simultaneously brave, silly, whimsical and thoroughly satisfying. Also, the close of the album is essentially the word ‘fuck’ repeated for quite some time. No ‘E’ in that.
Daniel Ross
