EPISODE · Sep 19, 2025 · 6 MIN
PREMIERE : Pablo Diarra - After Trane
from Les Yeux Orange · host Les Yeux Orange
Pablo Diarra - Griffe Sonam EP BUY LINK: https://songe-anima-records.bandcamp.com/album/griffe-sonam-ep Label: Songe anima Records (https://www.instagram.com/songe_anima/) > Pablo Diarra (https://soundcloud.com/saiph_sound) https://www.instagram.com/saiph_sound/ Artwork: william jones (https://www.instagram.com/oddl_liam) Mastered by Neel at EnissLab Mastering Studio After releasing several EP on Accents Records, ARTS, and Diffuse Reality. Pablo Diarra aka Saïph launches his own label Songe Anima records (Sonam rec) with this first release Griffe Sonam EP. The EP's surprising influences include techno, contemporary trance and ambient, with acoustic recordings drums somewhere between, Afrobeat, jazz and Maracatu, and colder textured pads. This EP feels both grounded and ethereal. The whole low-end spectrum stares us in a very dub-like direction, the snare, Rim, hats game is as swift as it is aerial, while the electro sound design elements take us, through experimental effect, into a vast, hushed soundscape. The EP can't be summed up in a single musical style, and explores musical universes we've rarely heard together. The resulting unity is a mature, rhythmically complex sound, an insider's music that's easy to access because it's so danceable. 'After Trane'is an explicit tribute to John Coltrane. Here, the main lead evokes a sound somewhere between trumpet, flute and organ. Its polyrhythmic tangle with a second lead to the 5th can evoke a Balkan fanfare, a Celtic ritornello, West African chants, or even an Oriental dimension; there's something quite universal about this appearance; whose main characteristic is to produce a trance effect. The closing solo may evoke something of Joe Zawinul, and in some aspects takes the allure of a Coltranian pastiche in its articulation. You'll even recognize a brief citation of the Impressions theme, breaking through the mix and setting the track on fire at 5''33.
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PREMIERE : Pablo Diarra - After Trane
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