Tricolore

Description

With a new album on PRAH Recordings out in early September the first and second albums are being repressed on LP in editions of 500. Debut album by Derbyshire trio who use accordions, trumpets, glockenspiels, pianos, loopery and laptopery to create gorgeous instrumental music in the vein of múm and Yann Tiersen. Haiku Salut, a trio from the Derbyshire Dales who describe themselves as a Baroque-Pop-Folktronic-Neo-Classical-Something-Or-Other. Influenced by the evocative film soundtracks of Yann Tiersen and Benoît Charest, the genre-melting electronica of Ametsub and early Múm, and the impressionistic writing of Haruki Murakami, Tricolore is a startlingly ambitious debut: hypnotic, atmospheric, informed by a love of repetition and a desire to unpick that repetition from the inside. Its an album of tiny details and stark emotions, an often euphoric, sometimes unsettling record that quickly becomes addictive you return again and again to these strange instrumental pieces, trying to work out how they made time slip backwards here, why they added that bizarre extra note there.