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10/17/2011

Bark Cat Bark - Á Lífi (2009)



/Chamber pop, Art-pop, New Age, Experimental indie, Post-rock, Modern classical, Crossover, Classical music/


Comment: Bark Cat Bark was Josh Todd`s solo project, being in action from 2004 to 2009. He had released a handful of albums. Á Lífi was one of his last issues. Soothing orchestrations, enthralling transitions from one fragment to another, some New Age-ish voyages, lone piano-driven reverberations and majestic post-rock-ish ascensions. And of course, accordion-based Paris street music makes always sense. By the way, shortly after he ended up with the activity some yobbos accused him of stealing other people`s oeuvre. Of course, it turned out to be a ridiculous and completely false case. In fact, there may be found out some similarities with Yann Tiersen, and Beirut, for instance, yet, could there be just one person who is able to abandon the legacy of the previous and contemporary eras to introduce his/her absolutely idiosyncratic experience onward? Inevitably not. One cultural layer was pulled out from the previous ones and thereafter heaped up on other ones.