(Folktronic, Neo Classical) Haiku Salut - Tricolore (2013) - 2013, MP3, 320 kbps

Debut album by Derbyshire trio who use accordions, trumpets, glockenspiels, pianos, loopery and laptopery to create gorgeous instrumental music in the vein of múm and Yann Tiersen. Haiku Salut, a trio from the Derbyshire Dales who describe themselves as a Baroque-Pop-Folktronic-Neo-Classical-Something-Or-Other , release their debut album, Tricolore , on Monday March 25. Influenced by the evocative film soundtracks of Yann Tiersen and Benoît Charest, the genre-melting electronica of Ametsub and early Múm, and the impressionistic writing of Haruki Murakami, Tricolore is a startlingly ambitious debut: hypnotic, atmospheric, informed by a love of repetition and a desire to unpick that repetition from the inside. It s an album of tiny details and stark emotions, an often euphoric, sometimes unsettling record that quickly becomes addictive you return again and again to these strange instrumental pieces, trying to work out how they made time slip backwards here, why they added that bizarre extra note there. And like all the best stories and Tricolore builds with the quiet power of a Murakami narrative the record has a surprise, almost self-destructive, ending. The trio of Gemma, Louise and Sophie released a single, Los Elefantes , on Jan 7, which was played by Tom Ravenscroft and Gideon Coe on BBC 6 Music, Bethan Elfyn and Ruth Barnes on Amazing Radio and Dexter Bently on Resonance FM, and have recorded a session for Dandelion Radio for March broadcast. They ve also been tipped by a wide variety of critics, from indie websites such as This Is Fake DIY and Music OMH, to classical writer Norman Lebrecht, Prog Rock magazine, folk website For Folk s Sake, experimental music website A Closer Listen and more. They play the Union Chapel on March 9, with UK concert and festival dates to follow. The most intriguing, unique, remarkable sound I've heard in such a long time Bethan Elfyn. Amazing Radio // Reviews to run in Uncut, Mojo, Clash, NME, and more TBC