SYNCHRONICITÉ

Patrick Forgas is a french composer well known for his work within the Forgas Phenoma Band. At the time he played with this band, the music was jazz-rock oriented. But with this first solo effort, the music is rather ambient-oriented with links towards Tangerine Dream and Vangelis. Apart from an obvious influence of the great "ambient" artists, this album pays also a tribute to the minimalists such as Philip Glass. Despite the minimalism influence, the sounds are varied (you can hear at times saxophone samplers, violin-like, harp-like, vibraphone-like and xylophone-like sounds, all "synthetic" because played on keyboards) and the percussion adds a jazzy feeling to the music. Overall, the music here is very smooth and it sounds like nothing else released to date. I think this is one of the most intriguing and beautiful ambient album released in years. If you want a good ambient album with discreet jazzy percussion, check out "Synchronicité" and you will be amazed by the beauty of the music Patrick Forgas composed.

Nothing happens: the album

Some 17 years(?) since Forgas' last solo effort, Art D'Echo (1993).

This begins with the soft, spacy "Animus", light and airy synthesized musics [reviewing this back after listening... this is the album as a whole]. It does ramp up at the end to add a little percussion. It's decent.

The similarly titled "Anima" is again soft, and opens with simple guitar (one of two tracks with guitar--ya heard of guitar?). Nothing of note really happens until nearly the 5 minute mark, but... uhhh... pretty flat. Is this how the whole album is [yes, yes it is]? This may be one of these moments where I'm a bit confused at the general consensus...

"La Persona" didn't do much. Like literally, not a whole lot here. I guess this is New Age? 'T'ain't Prog! lol. "Les Nombres" to follow at least has some saxophone... The only good thing I have to say is that the production isn't super plastic. But like... whatever.

I don't know what there is to say here. Closest thing to be... of interest... was "Le Soi", but like not really; not by much.

True Rate: 1.5/5.0