The album is nevertheless a detailed, textured and highly evocative work where the interaction between the performers on a wide range of instruments creates a unique musical material. Sitting in the crosshairs of modern classical, experimental electronics and contemporary composition, ‘Inner Fires’ develops the progressive dimension already sketched in ‘Volutes’, based more on improvisation and interpretation than on an overly produced approach. The new Snowdrops opus comes a year after the highly acclaimed ‘Volutes’ (Injazero), indexed in the 10 best contemporary albums of 2020 for The Guardian newspaper. Inner Fires comes at the end of a prolific year where Christine Ott and Mathieu Gabry released some captivating music, whether through their personal projects (‘Time to Die’, Gizeh Records), or common side-project (‘Theodore Wild Ride’, Icarus & Consouling Sounds). Arguably their most adventurous and experimental release to date, ‘Inner Fires’ features four tracks of Ondes Martenot, piano, synths and tubular bells with Richard Knox (A-Sun Amissa) featuring on electric guitar on the closing track.

France based chamber duo Snowdrops return with their final release of 2021.

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