Roxane Métayer - Perlée de sève

Shop favourite and Thorn Valley alumni, Roxane Métayer, debuts for Marionette with her second LP of distinctively framed folk-derived experimentalism. Folk music has a clear guiding hand in Metayer's composition - it's there in the intimacy of these subtle recordings - but it also serves as a slight misnomer. This aint no campfire singalong. Maybe we should think of it as folk in function not form, perhaps? I suppose it depends on how elastic your understanding is. Suffice to say, Metayer is broad in her thinking, shaping violin, woodwind and the human voice into unconventional structures that drone or chime or distort, sometimes all in the same song. There's almost a diaristic quality to these eleven sonic experiments, and if it's folk, then it's a folk ethnography of the everyday - there really is a very natural feeling to how Metayer writes, as if the music just flows out this way, pure precognitive expression, ever when its complex and unorthodox. And so it's through that we end up back with the notion of folk again - folk as unfiltered human song. It's about the best way i can think to understand such a uniquely rendered vision.