Cerchle de Chêne – Récits d'Automne et de Chasse

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• Band:
  Cerchle de chêne
• Duration: 00:53:00
• Available from: 21/03/2025
• Label:

• Antiq records

A group of wild animals gathers at the foot of a oak. Here, far from human eyes and ears, they share the stories of their meetings with our world: stories of hunting, courage, survival and wild life that go to compose a sort of small epic, minute in the themes but not for this less heroic.
This is the delicious concept of the Cerchle de Chêne, the new project of the Griesche Hyver-La couple for the Antiq family label.
Given the dizzying prolificity of the two (especially of Hyver, who arrived at the eighth release in two years under the fifth different moniker), it was legitimate to fear that this publication would repeat their canons in a slightly predictable way, which decline in a fairly recognizable way a black metal with medieval tones in an now more rough key, now more folk, now more atmospheric and trapped. In part it is so, but the ability to translate Really In music, a non -trivial concept makes “Récits d'Automne et de Chasse” an album of sure interest, which stands out for originality and refinement in the rather crowded audience of the genre of election of its proponents.
The formulas are not very distant from those with which Hyver and Griesche express themselves in the Tour of Ivoire, with the protagonist Synth and a dark fairytale allure; But here is objectively an extra gear, which is perceived in the way apparently simple ideas are articulated and in the search for sound detail.
In fact, the Cerchle de Chêne adapt the lessoning lesson to fit it on the small protagonists of this epic, as if it were a mouse -friendly armor: trumpets, horns and flutes dialogue with tinkles of cedamins and xylophone; strings pinched almost imitate a legs now circumspect, now hectic; The rhythmic section prefers linear patterns and the percussion of drums and drums – but quiet, there is also a little Blastbeat.
There is a lot of favole in “Récits d'Automne et de Chasse” but also, as we have mentioned, a certain solemnity. There are gift brass, martial rhythms, a little austere recitatives and the superb choral parts that embellish the “Dans Le Crystal du Givre” opener and even more significantly the epic “Aux Jours de Chasse”. There are the folk and a little romantic reminiscences of the first hour Ulver, the Les discretes and to the tracts even of the Agallloch.
The melodies are mostly simple (and perhaps precisely for this reason memorable, such as the supporting one of “Sur Les Toes of Une Tour”), but the structures of the songs and the arrangements reveal a scrupulous and stratified composition, which grows up to culminate in the ambitious “The Croix entre Les Bois” and capable of supporting the almost narrative trend of the album until the closure of the drama ” Rois “and on” Retour Vers the Aube “, crystalline and bitter together.
“Récits d'Automne et de Chasse”, even if he brings autumn in the title, actually comes out in conjunction with the spring equinox. Perhaps it is a coincidence, maybe not: it will certainly be difficult to find a more suitable album to accompany the rebirth of the nature of this enchanting collection of Chanson de Geste In miniature, whose protagonists perform their deeds in the fragrant humidity of the undergrowth, or inside lairs dug between the roots, or on the banks of a reverberating stream of sun and the last frost.

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