My Review: Désar - Into the Sun

Désar - Into the Sun  

A record born while listening to a Toronto radio station, for this Brooklyn-based artist, a man of truly remarkable personal and musical culture.

Listen to his presentation of the album and you will be really pleased. The old scribe could keep quiet, no problem.

But no.

The ten compositions deserve a little comment.

The general atmosphere is that of an exploration of problems, a breathing space that illuminates thoughts with a new form. It counts for a lot to identify the musical zones crossed, used, squeezed like lemons from the juice that is needed to make the palate change. The recitative and the overlapping of voices are magic that comfort and often make us forget that without the singing we would probably be hypnotised and wounded

Lucien Désar is a composer of music with the intention of bringing to mind the Darkwave of the 90s, and I think he has succeeded, but I would add that he has done so by making a few changes that guarantee a caress towards the 80s, while greatly annihilating that of recent years, as his eclecticism is measured but powerful, allowing a flexibility that in the end turns out to be his real trump card.

Exhale's piano is a delirium: the breathing experiences a sudden tremor, the blood swerves and the words are further thorns that drive the throat to writhe. 

This track is enough (don't think it is an unexpected, something different from the rest of the album, because instead it fully represents it), to be in love with an unexpected flutter of wrinkled truths. He is like that: a surprise like a postage stamp with saliva that makes you fall in love with his gems as if you were a child in front of the lightning in the sky.

With Die, sandpaper under the wings of a tank, he packs a punch, and you can hear how the American artist knows how to converse between musical genres, slipping in a siren that sounds like an angry ambulance.

But the art project is really conceived to be an extraordinary repository of chains that touch and create freedom. That of not seeing the time that had disappeared. And this is a credit to him.

If that's not enough for you: the beginning of the resounding Travel to Mars (amidst classical music impetuses, Star Wars cheers, and electronics performing a perfectly successful intervention) will perfectly show you his universe, made up of qualities that know no end.

Grab yourself a glass, fill it with patience and you will drink a record with a unique taste...

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

17th June 2023

https://desar.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-sun