On Air’s last tour, in 2010 following their 2009 album Love 2, Godin realised that he’d reached an impasse.

“We weren’t surprising ourselves anymore, like most bands find after they’ve been together for ten years or more.  The big challenge for any artist is to have a reason to make music, because there are already plenty of records out there. I’d made a statement with AIR and I wanted to go back to the classical world, to grow up musically; to renew myself.”

The end result is Contrepoint, a dazzling experience that conjoins Godin’s former habitual musical fusions with classical forms, taking the listener on multiple adventurous journeys, often within each song, with counterpoint just one of its many landmarks.  

It’s remarkably varied in tone and rhythm, splicing genres with a bold, punchy and yet sensual and sweeping feel, with a variety of enticing lyrical narratives, and a starry international cast of guests, such as French vocalist Thomas Mars (from Phoenix), Brazilian singer Marcelo Camelo, Italian author Alessandro Barrico, New Zealand guitarist Connan Mockasin and the choir from Macedonia’s F.A.M.E.'S. Project.

But the unifying force of Contrepoint is Johann Sebastian Bach. Each album track uses a Bach piece as its source, before jumping off to all manner of new places. Glenn Gould is also in the mix, though more of a spiritual guide than compositional.

The predominant influence on Contrepoint is Godin himself, composing at a new-found level of inspiration, both structural and emotional.

Available exclusively through independent retailers such as ourselves, this special edition LP is pressed on blue vinyl.

EXCLUSIVE to independent retailers.

Vinyl LP.

180g vinyl.

Gatefold sleeve.

Blue vinyl.

Includes a copy of the album on CD.

Also available on CD and blue LP (indie exclusive).

Tracklist:

1. Orca

2. Widerstehe doch der Sünde

3. Club Nine

4. Clara

5. Glenn

6. Quei due

7. Bach off

8. Elfe Man

Barcode: 5060421561707

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