MH-256 4 Bonjour's Parties - Pigments Drift Down To The Brook 4 Bonjour's Parties is a seven member strong ensemble from Tokyo, Japan. Their debut full-length release, Pigments Drift Down To The Brook, with it's expansive, chamber-music approach to song structure and production, hints at modern risk-takers Architecture In Helsinki and The Arcade Fire. Alternating between sweet and majestic, the combination of male and female vocals, sung both in Japanese accented English, is an aural wonder. Keyboards and wind instruments lay on top of a bed of dream-rock guitar, bass, and drums, creating moments of 60’s guitar pop, Neu inspired repetition, and modern electronics, all within the same expansive track. Pigments Drift Down To The Brook marks 4 Bonjour's Parties as a band that deserves close attention.

Tracklist 01. Magpie Will Peck A Hole In My Plaster Cast 02. Satellite 03. Ruins 04. Your Chill Long Hands 05. Il Cortile Grigio 06. Ksana 07. Amalthea 08. Nostalgic Was Broken To Pieces 09. Otogima Horse 10. Crimson Sky After The Sunset

Release Details Release Date: 12/04/2007   Download/Available/$7.00 CD/Out Of Print

Reviews Summary

A big sound with a sense of wonder to it. - Remix / An album that should be making the world of pop music take notice - The Needle Drop / A gloriously dreamy treasure - Organ / Breathtaking experience in ethereality and catharsis through open-minded, collaborative sound - PopMatters / Nothing quite like this on the market today - Slug / You can't go wrong with this album - Giant Robot

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All Music Guide / Babysue / BiBaBiDi / Boomkat / Crashin' In / Fast Forward Weekly / Forest Gospel / Getecho / Giant Robot / INDE-ssence / Japan Live / Japonchi / Last.fm / Organ / PopMatters / Remix / Resonance / Slug / Soundslike / Strange Glue Music / Textura / The Needle Drop / Tiny Mix Tapes / Vue Weekly / XLR8R /

Well, I don´t know how many of you know them but I´ve never heard of these guys before. The 4 Bonjour´s Parties project from Tokyo is a very nice surprise for me. It´s a Japanese indie folk ensemble, a sort of lo-fi sound, with seven members who love to play all kinds of instruments, such as guitars, clarinets, vibraphone, bongo, flutes, trumpets, accordion, piano... Including electronics. Their inspiration comes from Efterklang, Broken Social Scene and Yo La Tengo, Animal Collective, Architecture In Helsinki or Belle & Sebastian. This is what makes 4 bonjour´s parties music so sophisticated, colourful and truly collective. Their full-lenght debut album Pigments Drift Down To The Brook is out on & Records in Japan and on Mush Records in United States. I highly recommend. - Getecho