Angèle David-Guillou
★★★★ A Question Of Angles VILLAGE GREEN. CD/DL/LP
French composer has bold change of tune on third LP. Angèle DavidGuillou’s preceding Mouvements trilogy ended with the exKlima driving force playing pipe organ live at the Union Chapel. A Question Of Angles is less austere. Opener Valley Of Detachment plunges the listener into bright, neoclassical territory, its fastpulsing, metronomic sax recalling Michael Nyman’s ’80s film scores for Peter Greenaway. A similar sleight of hand is at work amid the shifting time signatures of the solo cello Akrotiri, sawing violins and bass trombones of Quid Pro Quo, and the title track’s pelting, Theremindriven melancholia – efforts that show their debt to Giovanni Fusco’s dark atmospherics, Philip Glass’s orchestral push and pull and Steve Reich’s phase-shifting in plain sight. Yet David-Guillou’s repetitious efforts play tricks on the ear: indelible melodies emerge from the choreographed minimalism without wasting a single note.