LABELLE - Orchestre Univers (Sealed) (LP)

Two years after "Univers-ile", Labelle is back with a new project which is a daring realization of a dream at that: the creation of his own orchestra, the Orchestre Univers. With the help of the Orchestre National de la Reunion, the producer opens a new chapter in the merging of classical, pop music, and the heritage of Europe and the Indian Ocean. This third album, composed especially for the Orchestre Univers, was recorded live over the course of four concerts, performed all around La Reunion, in the island's most beautiful concert halls. A sequence of breathless trancelike moments, post-Maloya and technological experiments, the album floats between tradition and modernity, like a sonic odyssey that is only the beginning of an ongoing saga...