Today’s Random Album of the Day is Fleuve from Ô Paon. This is music from Geneviève Castrée who I am sad to report passed away in 2016. Her music is considered Indie Folk or “Avant-folk”. Singer Songwriter fits too. She was only 35 years old. Very sad.
Her music is good but definitely avant garde. It is very lovely without always being exactly catchy. Geneviève had a great voice in my opinion and such a creative musical mind. This album really works for me.
“Fille Tannée” gives me a bit of a Mount Eerie feel – which is appropriate since she was married to Phil Elverum of Mount Eerie. That’s more of a sidetone but worth mentioning.
I somehow adore that this is mostly in French. For one because that would probably irritate conservative losers. Maybe more than a little because it is fitting with us drinking out of Bastille mugs this morning (our anniversary is on Bastille Day so we’re preparing for the wonders of it all!).
Anyhow, overall great album. I need to listen to this more. Though it does make me sad knowing she died it’s nice to also recognize her great talent.
Rating: 9.8
Favorite Track(s): “rive-sud” for its uniqueness. “fille tanée” for its melody. This song is actually very awesome. “blue/fleuve ii” gives me chills in a good way. I get excited at its intro. “Trandscanadienne” is just so good. I think I missed another great one while I was multi-tasking. “Bouée” because good. And I could list nearly every song…
Keep or Trash: Keep. I love this EP. Even if I didn’t I doubt I could delete it. But I love it so there.
Background
Every day, or nearly every day anyhow, I will randomly select an album from my collection of digital music, listen to it, and share it here. – Jayne
My wife and I are board gamers and we gamify nearly everything in life. This includes our music listening. We use a dice catapult to roll dice and then use the dice results to pick our vinyl listens. So why not do something similar for the blog?
I have made the randomizer table I use for picking the album of the day available! What? It’s a simple table but uses some weird dice. If you are not familiar, if you say D30 that means a 30 sided die. These are the dice the randomizer table uses: D30, D4, D8, D10, D12, D14, and D20. The D14 and D30 are unique but you can buy cheap packs of dice with those in them off the internet.
The basic steps are to 1) roll the D30. That picks the starting letter or if it’s a number. 2) Then use the chart roll the die associated with the first letter to pick the second letter. If you get “Other” that means numbers or some other weird character. If none of those exist re-roll. 3) Once you have the second letter you can use that to roll for a third letter if needed. 4) That should get you down to a few artists and from there you pick dice based on the number of artists. 5) finally for the artist selected you roll a die for the number of albums listed. Then you have your Random Album to listen to….
Download the Random Album Selector Table here: