Blog: New Age of Heroes

Sylvain Chauveau - The Black Book of Capitalism This 2008 re-release (originally 2000) has been my introduction to the French 'neo-classical-ist/electronic- ist/avant garde-ist' Sylvain Chauveau. On this album he crafts a delicate (though evidently more dynamic than his other works, according to most blogs) and subtly intriguing series of 'songs', or rather 'landscapes of sound'. Brooding piano lines, haunting and inscrutable vocals, quietly droning synths, and sometimes the understated strumming of a guitar /churning of an organ combine to produce pieces that, neither alone or as [...]