Album Notes

Serge Blenner creates it to breathe the electronic music life. The sensitive and melodic
tracks device the listeners into dreams while listening the wonderful and filigree piano,
the blowers and the pearling chimes of "Les Perles" or the urgent soprano voices, the harps
and the string players of "Symbiose". It is a very special sound of classical music,
You can not stop listening to this new album!

24 Bit Digital Recording - MdeC Editions DDD CD 004
classical - chamber music - atmospheric - chill out
electroacoustic and eclectic contemporary music

(c) & (p) 2008 by MdeC Editions
All tracks written and produced by Serge Blenner
12 compositions - playing time 60:33
Label: MdeC Editions

Serge Blenner, a Frenchman who already lives and works in Hamburg (Germany) for years
has an unique place in electronic music. Don’t come to him for sequencerpatterns,
Mellotronsounds, space sounds, soundscapes or big solo’s. His records, especially those
from recent times, are for the biggest part influenced by modern classical music and ethnic
music. On "Musique de Chambre" (Chamber Music) he goes deepest exploring the classics.
When I read the title, I had a slight thought that he might have recorded an album with a real
chamber orchestra. Well, this not the case but he does uses a sound library of samples from
the VSL Vienna Orchestra. I hear hardly any difference with real acoustic instruments.
A compliment is on its place for the makers of the samples and for Blenner. The pieces on
Musique de Chambre have a lot of strings, harp, wind instruments, pianosolos and female
operatic voices. Next to this, we hear the usual French atmosphere, sometimes in the form
of a accordion. Again this leads to a diversity of wonderful tracks like "Les Perles", "La Source"
and "Des Visages" that sound almost like filmmusic and compositions like "Une Présence",
"Logica" and "Novum" that are built up as pure classical pieces. You must like this music and
open up for it. If this is the case, than this is a great listening experience. And that is not only
for fans of electronic music but also for lovers of classical music.
© 2008 Paul Rijkens, iO Pages (Netherlands)