Music Review // Caméra "Dimanche"

 

On "Dimanche" the sound has such a steady pace.  It really feels as if you are feeding images through a projector to have them form a moving sequence.  Though not easy to explain, as a kid we used to make these types of things out of cardboard boxes and feed comic strips through them.   This just feels like the soundtrack to such an event, though the content of the images can be left to your imagination.

Acoustics begin this song and take us into the melody.  Parts of this flutter and do so in such a way that it just makes the overall feeling of the song one which is pretty.  I can almost imagine this as the beginning or end credits theme for a film, somewhere between "Napoleon Dynamite" and "Adventure Time".

But there is also this part which has these plucks which sound like they're coming from a jaw harp.   This instrument always makes me think of one specific film and as such this can take on the sound of something moving such as a boat down the river.  I specifically think about Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, riding down the river on their makeshift raft.   Just to have some form of that as a still image and to move the trees, grass and water around them would make for a neat music video.

One of the other elements within this song which needs to be talked about more is that there is singing but without words, a sort of humming.   This sensation adds to the overall beauty of this song, though it also puts Caméra into this genre where the song isn't quite fully instrumental but it also doesn't have lyrics.  Still, this is a fun song to listen to when you're doing really anything and want to maintain a specific pace.