Virga and Lunt, two loner musicians' projects, Lionel Maraval (Virga) and Gilles Deles (Lunt), afford a split CD in order to break the monotony and to cover the path in good company. Each of them intervene in the other's work via interposed remixes, and a true collaboration settles on the track Hix, where one's guitars (Lunt) and the other's beats (Virga) gives to this split production some work in common type of thing. On the path of that twosome travel, we'll meet references and winks to Micro:mega and to the Canadian Constellation label (Stretched Meridians). The successful Shining which opens and ends this record begins an invasive hypnosis: to the electronic loops and sophisticated ambiances that remind of those by the Humberstone brothers with their side-project Les Jumeaux, is added a forceful and martial glockenspiel. Then on Heliotrope, Virga creates the strain and the energy from his machines, like a mad scientist trying to create life in a test tube. Which scientist blows some mystery into Lunt's One Day with an end-of-the-world like remix. Sole sunray in this badly enlightened lab is Lunt's superb Geodesic, all made of guitars and shrewdness, and will calm the experimental storms created by his road fellow. This split CD sounds like the instrumental album of a unique artist as Virga and Lunt's productions are complementary, and we would advice them to do it again. After all, Virga&Lunt, it's a good name for a band.
Bertrand Hamonou (premonition.org)
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