Video shot by Walter Mirtl and Peter Clasen. Edited and directed by Peter Clasen.
"Le vent et la poussiere" is a track taken from the album "Take a deep breath" by Electro Trip-hop duo Bix Medard. "Take a deep breath", released in March 2011, is the third album by Bix Medard. 12 melancholic, very personal, breathy, weird songs, sung by Bix, mostly in French, with some sung in English, Italian and Japanese.
Slow electronic trip-hop beats, monophonic vintage synths, new-wave influenced bassplaying, freejazz orientated fluteplaying, and the unique voice of Bix, are the main elements in the music of Bix Medard.
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CD Review by the Music Critic (UK, April 2011). Bix Medard, the idiosyncratic Belgian/Norwegian duo return with another great album of atmospheric grooves and cinematic, trippy beats. They're a talented bunch this lot. Take a Deep Breath is edgier, darker and more stark than last year's excellent Y Dress. Peter Clasen has excelled himself with his bass playing and guitar riffs most notably on Are You Ready? the stand out track, clever, cool, dramatic and inventive. The title track Take a Deep Breath sees them at their most quirky and weirdest. Apart is a gothic love song, the sultry vocals have an esoteric almost Portishead feel. There's some nice touches throughout especially the garage psychedelic guitar and haunting flute which really add to the modern city soundscape. Fans of Bix Medard won't be disappointed with Take a Deep Breath as Bix and Peter continue to sculpt the sonic landscape.
Bix Medard -- Take A Deep Breath (Altair Musik)
By Dominic Valvona, for God is in the TV zine (UK), May 31, 2011.
The amorous cooing and slowly unfolding, finely-tuned, sculptured soundscapes of Bix Medard prove a challenge to define or sum up in any review. Part conceptual, and partly recondite yearning pop; the pairing of Norwegian chanteuse flute player Bix, and her Belgian sparring partner Peter Clasen -- also known as Medard -- are often filed under the "nouvelle chanson Française" tag, which goes some way towards explaining their brand of Euro-rich synth and live instrument sound. Bix switches between dialects; breathlessly wooing, dictating or incidental meandering in French, English, Italian and Japanese; all the while a much understated, yet acutely arranged and executed, trip-hop backing track underwrites each of the 12 oblique traversing songs.
Strains of Portishead can be heard throughout, as well as the occasional reference to Holger Czukay's U-She collaboration -- especially on their more melodic synthesized string moments -- and even nods to Pil. On the moronic slow-jazz thriller, 'Apart', they rework Blondies 'Sunday Girl' for the ambient trance market, and filter the Pola X and Toxic Affair soundtrack compositions of Scott Walker, with a touch of Outside era Bowie, for 'Sur Les Marches'.
Take A Deep Breath' isn't just an album title, it's also an instruction for the experience you're about to partake of: submerged in a post Factory Records haze of drowning electro art.
So far one of 2011′s more inventive and intriguing albums.
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