Opera Multi Steel - Biography
La Légende Dorée is the eighth album by the French band OPERA MULTI STEEL. This is also the first one since 2002 when the band stopped recording after the release of "Une Idylle en Péril" issued by the now extinct German label Triton. This new album is a kind of return to the very first years of the band. The musicians attempted to recreate the minimalist atmosphere from the time of their first cult album "Cathedrale" reusing and exhuming all the instruments they were playing by that time such as the vintage Elex or Casio VL Tone keyboards… The rhythm patterns were elaborated with samples from the rhythm boxes which they loved so much on their beginnings, mainly Roland TR 606, TR 808 models… The minimal "hand made"electronic wave sound of the band is completed by the adjunction of flutes, melodica and bass guitar. Some atmospherical sound effects, one of the band's characteristic recordings, are still scattering over the songs of the album. This new album presents twelve brand new songs composed, written and arranged by Patrick L . Robin, Catherine Marie, Franck Lopez and Eric Milhiet who are playing together as OMS musicians since the album "A Contresens". The digipack artwork was conceived as a small triptych using anonymous sulpician distorted pictures from the late XIXth and beginning of the XXth centuries selected among the wide personal old pictures collection of the band's members. The album's title is a reference to a famous book written by Jacques de Voragine between 1261 and 1266 relating the life and the tragical destiny of saints and martyrs. Several lyrics of this new OMS album are in relation with saints and distant mysticism in general (Sainte So. NS-ND, Rite Sacré…) the idea of using it came naturally , for subject itself and for its poetical sounding as well. Anyway, the lyrics written by Patrick L. Robin also keep on exploring outside the strict limits of supposed beliefs. All the human vanities and torments are merged in those texts within an apparent hermetic literary form that allows every personal interpretation. The band released in 2008 a Best of Collection double cd by Wave Records (Brazil) and now the Brazilian label release the new album in 3 different versions (Cd, Limited double cd and Box Limited Edition).
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