ZIRCONIA

A brilliant electronic sound dimension has come enthusiastically to our minds in the autumn 2021. Thankfully I've got a email about the latest album by Hervé PICART's solo project OSE. He says this album "Zirconia" is out of the Ose Space as the epilogue of his 'Outer Worlds Trilogy'. What a good news under such a tough situation all over the world. The sleeve pic drawn by François-Auguste BIARD looks pretty orphic and mysterious, that reminds us of something positive and promising. Anyway the soundscape in this creation sounds edgier and clearer, and directly screws itself up into our inner brain. Repetitive, sensitive, and sometimes sensual synthesizer-oriented sound passions seriously kick our heart. We could feel his creativity in every single phrase, and get immersed without any notice. Not so spacey nor dignified as the prologue "Adonia" but his sincere 'productive will' and 'appetite for encouragement' can be felt obviously.

From the start "From A To Z" OSE sound world drastically explodes all over our ears. Sticky phrases produced by clear spicy synthesizers strictly knock our chest. Every tone rings our bell like a cubic ice in a whisky glass. As if we swirled the glass before drinking the whisky, fantastic digital flavour comes up to our minds. Monotonous, mechanical but plaintive, chilling, percussive attachments in "Rainbow Heart" are not bad. On the contrary "Digging In The Light (Cave Creepers' Calypso)" is kinda fantasy, that we can fully get amazed at. The melody lines and rhythmic bases are not so complicated nor dissonant but why dissappointing? That's really fine. Cool clean crystallized dry-fruity ambience can be enjoyed in "Cristal Mineur", my favourite one. A simple minor track cannot make us feel depressive nor tragic, but fantastic spilit for future. " Vertigo & Fandango (Dangerous Dreams)" is another weirdness not to throw us any vertigo nor dizziness but cheerful movements, a bit light and inorganic though. Theatrical, dramatic dream-come-true-ish apparatus can be herad via a grand one "Diamond Ghosts", which shares Hervé's positive creative waves in an aural and 'visual' manner. His sound simplicity is prety amazing. "In Search of the Supreme Gem" should be another valuable expectation under the current circumstance. Quite tough and challenging for us on the long and winding road, but brilliant gems should be over there without any suspicion ... he might mention via this song. And in the final stage we can obtain gems called safe sound great life.

In conclusion, this album is not so diverse nor innovative honestly to say but why don't we enjoy such a simple and good life under the pandemic (or post-pandemic) situation ...