Type Rec. 
The Alps : Le Voyage -LP/CD- (US,2010)***
The Alps new (fourth) album remains in the instrumental psych/folk/pop/rock area. We hear several calm, light, somewhat repetitive-moody instrumentals on acoustic and electric/slide guitar, bass and piano mostly, with a relatively simple, but still moodily-descriptive core. To enhance this fundament a bit of analogue synths sounds and small but prominent references were made to the old psychedelic schools. “Marzipan” either took a sound fragment or reworked an idea from Franco Battiato’s early albums, a fragment of Mozart with echoing spoken word, and with a gun fire sound interfering and with additional water sounds, before a percussion/electric bass and wa-wa and acoustic guitars improvisation takes place. “St.Laurent” has a small fragment of analogue synths, and then a bit of piano, another intro for one of their more typical improvisations, with a rather loudly recorded bass, acoustic guitar, slide guitar and piano, before a second comparable fragment of echoing analogue synths sounds with piano. A few fragments recall Pink Floyd then, like on “Saturno Conto” acoustic guitar and echoing and sliding electric guitar strings, backing psychedelic sounds, and glockenspiel improvisation. A last extra element is the Indian tempura, used as a fundamental drone to improvise upon on “Black Mountain” and on the last track.
The Alps still is Jefre Cantu-Ledesma (Tarentel), Alexis Georgopoulos (ARP) and Scott Hewicker (Troll).
