Exposition, Eaux-Fortes et Méandres
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{{Infobox album
| name = Exposition, Eaux-Fortes et Méandres
| type = Album
| artist = Collection d'Arnell Andréa
| cover = Cdaa exposition.jpg
| alt =
| released = 2007
| recorded = 2006 at Studio Nyima
| venue =
| studio =
| length = 58:25
| label = Prikosnovénie
| producer = p.e., Collection d'Arnell Andréa
| prev_title = The Bower of Despair
| prev_year = 2004
| next_title = Vernes-Monde
| next_year = 2010
}}
Exposition, Eaux-Fortes et Méandres is the 8th album released by the French darkwave band Collection d'Arnell Andréa. The concept for the album is based on pianist Modest Mussorgsky's 1874 Pictures at an Exhibition piano suite, which in Mussorgsky created 10 different piano songs based on Russian artist Viktor Hartmann. The majority of the tracks on Exposition, Eaux-Fortes et Méandres are based on 19th-century paintings.{{cite magazine|title=Collection D’Arnell~Andrea – Exposition |language=German |first=Thomas |last=Abresche |magazine=Sonic Seducer |year=2007 |issue=7 |url=http://www.sonic-seducer.de/index.php/component/option,com_reviews/anzeige,2801/func,detail/}}{{dead link|date=May 2014}} These paintings had darker themes and included works from Arnold Böcklin's Isle of the Dead, Edward Robert Hughes, and John Everett Millais's Ophelia. The album cover art and title track, Les Méandres, are based on Richard Boutin's 1999 painting Crepuscule sur la Loire. Boutin also photographed the band for the album's liner notes.
Style
The songs feature vocals, guitar, keyboards, cello, and viola, but also synthesizers and electronic beats. The style has been compared to the Cocteau Twins and Dark Sanctuary.
Track listing
Image:John Everett Millais - Ophelia - Google Art Project.jpg
Image:Arnold Böcklin - Die Toteninsel II (Metropolitan Museum of Art).jpg
- "Les Sombres Plis de l'âme" – 4:40
- "The Monk on the Shore" – 6:18
- "Les Herbes mortes" – 6:16
- "Les Méandres" – 6:09
- "The Long Shadow" – 4:53
- "I Can't See Your Face" – 6:07
- "Les Catacombes" – 4:00
- "Into Flowers" – 5:33
- "Crowns of Golden Corn" – 4:03
- "L'Eau des mauves" – 5:14
- "The Island of the Dead" – 5:07
Credits
=Musicians=
=Graphic artists=
- Christophe Poly : liner notes
- Vincent Lacape : liner notes, band photo
- Richard Boutin : cover art, band photo
=Production=
- Pierre-Emmanuel Meriaud (Studio Nyima) : engineering, mixing and programming
- Terence (Studio Nyima) : mastering
References
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External links
- [http://cdaa.free.fr/discography/exposition Album description on CDAA website]
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