Label: Kit Records
Catalog#: KR22
Format: Cassette, Album
Country: UK
Released: 2016
A1 Prioni 3:19
A2 Apella 5:16
A3 Atsipades 4:00
A4 Firiplaka 2:58
B1 Avlaki 3:19
B2 Kyra Panagia 4:17
B3 Alogomandra 3:38
B4 Sarakiniko 4:52
WunderやPacific 231を思わせるラウンジ/イージーリスニング的ムードのフレーズループと、プツプツと泡が弾けるようなアナログな質感のクリック、そこかしこに挿入される水の音。写真家でありスイミングプールのライフガードの顔をもつ、フランス出身ブリュッセル在住の音楽家Roméo Poirier（ホメオ・ポイリエ）が、Swim Platførm（スイム・プラットフォーム）名義のEPに続いて、UKのレーベルKit Recordsから発表したデビューアルバム。ギリシャ・エーゲ海に浮かぶ島々のビーチを巡る船旅をテーマにしたサブアクアティック・リゾート・ミュージック。
French photographer, musician and lifeguard Roméo Poirier (formerly known as Swim Platførm) appears for his debut album, Plage Arrière, a deep sea meditation on a constellation of Greek beaches across three islands. Trumpets, echo-clicks and Harold Budd-esque shimmer piano whirl together on these seductive scapes, which recall the sub-aqeaous ambitions of Jürgen Müller or Sebastian Palomar.
'Atsipades' is a keepsake from the song's namesake beach, on western Crete. Roméo writes, 'on the back of a boat, leaving an island. We can see a pool, but that is empty and covered by a net. People looking into distance. A man walks across the platform, hand moving towards his mouth. Maybe he is drinking a café frappé. During his time on the island he was drinking it every day. Now, on the journey back home, that café frappé represents a souvenir of the beach. In it there is water (sea), coffee (sand) and ice cubes (rocks).' ▲
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