A
les yeux écoutent
les oreilles voient

B
une danse imaginaire

‘L’album vert’ is a compilation of asynchronous steps for an imaginary dance floor. A strange but
amusing place were eyes listen in and ears peek around. Glass breaks, someone stumbles, something
always happens. The dancers inevitably hop to moments of tension of which they free themselves
again and again.

Almost always there is some kind of beat. Not the kind of beat that makes the hips wiggle, but
rather the pulse of a crooked factory or a quirky steam engine that drives much more than four
elements.

On this peculiar conveyor belt the stamping and punching and whistling never rests.
The sound on ‘l’album vert’ is not a blanket, but a net full of holes.

The collective does not become one, it becomes many. Sounds seem separated, they do not touch
and do not merge, they communicate through the air in between.

Once more, ‘l’album vert’ shows that Dans les arbres has a signature style, although more electronic
instruments and experimental recording techniques have been used in comparison to earlier work.

Artwork by Marina Rheingantz:
Portrait of a Sound, 2024
Oil on Canvas
190 x 250 cm
Courtesy of the artist