IN SPIRAL

Jean Pascal BOFFO, French guitarist known personally since 1993 for an ambient work around the thousand and one nights, using his guitar to create atmospheres more than miles of notes; work with ANGE and her then singer; an experiment ranging from progressive rock with MANDRAGORE to jazz for electric and acoustic sounds. This 15th album gives way to his renowned guitar playing, ambient on changing, fascinating and introspective atmospheres.

"Fly Away" goes on a hovering electronic track, an experimental RADIOHEAD thing with Thom at the helm; repetitive minimalist with a catchy chorus like a melancholic mantra. "Cosmic Blossom" bluesy title, slide guitar, bass forward; slow musical cascade in declination with the rising guitar, which forces attentive listening, tribal break before leaving again feeling musical water waves behind the ears. "Childhood Dream" drives the point home with a plaintive guitar, bordering on melancholy on a haunting tune; we feel the current cinematic fashion flirting between BOF and nonchalant air where rhythmicity is put forward. "Seed of Light" returns to a repetitive electro-dub work where the Crimsonian guitar comes forward; memories of FRIPP's work with ENO and a cheerful and melancholic trance at the same time. "Epicycle" sends me back to Eddie MULDER's latest opus 'Blind Hunter' with this country guitar-movie soundtrack that flows endlessly; it's beautiful, it could last a long time without disturbing with an agreed air that takes you to the guts.

"Blue Nebula" with a JAPAN sound in intro quickly erased by the magic guitar of Jean-Pascal surfing on the ambient cloudy waves; the minimalist synth makes it possible to amplify this feeling up to a sampled amalgam that can recall 'Furyo'. "Inner World" starts with a slow bossa nova ambient movement, with a bewitching atmosphere that could pass as slow Andalusian for a western film, inventive, psychedelic. "Connection Breakdown" for the most 'barge' track; connection of different genres with ZAPPA, FRIPP, tortured title stamped space-synth-trip. It sounds avant-garde, tonic, tribal for extra-terrestrials in need of music. "Space Time" spatial melancholy spleen precisely with voice-over as start and agreed title saved by the more exuberant guitar at that time. "Night Sky" ambient electronics with a spatial crescendo, soft, introspective, on notes of the first SCHULZE to help understand the sound; aided by an airy chorus bringing the title far, high, beyond the clouds; meditative and dreamlike.

Jean-Pascal BOFFO releases a different album, less melodic, more introspective, where the sounds leave on cold electronics above all, enhanced by his guitar playing. An intimate, melancholic instrumental to spend a beautiful evening, alone or in company, at the limit of electric and progressive space rock and melancholy melodies; a universe with proven spleen to sink into his meditative compositions. This album is an invitation to indulge in listening.