Banileue Records boss Benoit B lands on Facta and K-LONE's Wisdom Teeth imprint with
a spacious four-track set of dazzling new-age steppers.
The record follows on from Benoit's excellent Japonaiserie EP - a stunning tribute to
Japanese synth music released last year on Berceuse Heroique. OnVague a l'Ame, the
melodic ideas developed on the Japonaiserie EP are set to work against broken beats and
UK-leaning rhythms, bringing it in line with the output of Wisdom Teeth label-mates
Duckett, K-LONE and Don't DJ.
The EP is bookended by a pair of euphoric broken-beat rollers: first, the melodic bleeps
and weighted kicks of the title track; and to close, the scuzzy pads and glissando synths of
Kimono.
Sat between them are two lean, smokey half-steppers: the record's vocal centrepiece,
Gyvenimo Tekme (featuring Lithuanian songwriter Dalia), and Ice Valley - an intergalactic
slowjam built around dubbed-out bleeps and yearning cluster chords.