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CMU Approved
Approved: Val-d’Isére
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 10 November 2010
Val-d’Isére, aka producer Sean Bamberger and singer Carrie Flower, are a duo based in London and Leeds respectively. Although their music is heavily electronic, they go out of their way to give their sound a warmth and feeling sometimes lost when slick technology is applied. Not that slick technology has anything to do with it. Their equipment is old, they have no time for quantizing, and their drum beats are sampled off YouTube videos.
The first taste of the project comes in the form of ‘Pinpoint’, a free download available from their Bandcamp page. The above description may have suggested a slapdash attitude, but this is far from the case. The warmth and feeling they were aiming for is very much here, as is great songwriting talent and some simply gorgeous vocals from Flower. And look, she even made the end of that sentence pretty.
