Hypnotic Peafowl – Understand the Universe (Spotify)
“Another twisting creation from Hypnotic Peafowl. The title "Understand the Universe" make us wonder how it all began while listening the craftfully composed sound vibrations.”
-Nagamag.com
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Aurélien Dornier, sound designer, musician and composer, releases his first album "Logorrhia" on the Hadra Records label with his Hypnotic Peafowl project: 8 new exclusive tracks, resolutely eclectic, which reflect the artist's advanced musical research. Hypnotic Peafowl breathes new life into his experiments and explores different soundscapes with a quality sound design. Always in a work of advanced hybridization, he brilliantly mixes his multiple influences: orchestral music, jazz, funk, bass music. In this opus, some sweet piano bar melodies and retro inserts with stoner rock influences, dominated by hypnotic, repetitive rhythms, accompanied by a very heavy bass with a warm envelope. A work that is at once colourful, festive and dynamic, enriched by collaborations with artists such as Bendja or the emerging French group Version Bizar.
Chapter 3 of a cleverly orchestrated narration, Hypnotic Peafowl transcends the simple sound production and has been working on a work that has been a common thread in "Pandora's Box" since its first independent release "Enygma". A work of intention where nothing is left to chance: from the visual aesthetics of each piece of work to the choice of sampling, Hypnotic Peafowl produces each release as a chapter in its history. After releasing its second release "The Mirror" on Zenon Records in early 2020, Hypnotic Peafowl is now laying the third stone of its building "La Boite de Pandore".
BIO
Aurélien Dornier is a French sound designer, musician and composer. Lovers of Jazz and orchestral music he also enjoys psychedelic electronic music.
In 2015 he decided to create his project Hypnotic Peafowl, a highly psychedelic project with jazzy influences, funky and bass music.
Music with heavy and tortuous atmospheres that he will seek in the depths of his subconscious, it is with great dexterity that he works his grooves and textures ...
It is in 2018 that he will play his first date and very quickly his project this remark of the general public, with a summer spent in the four corners of France to play in festivals with artists like Halfred, Sumiruna, Hypogeo, Tribone...
His passage in the south of France did not go unnoticed. And because of his energetic performances have allowed him to attract the attention of some French programmers allowing him to regularly perform in parties in Paris, Lyon, Besançon, Grenoble, Nantes, Avignon ...
2019 will mark for him the release of his first album "Enygma" a self-produced album But not that!
He continues to be noticed by his musical eclecticism, in fact mastering himself Peafowl is not content to produce music Psygressive intended for the dancefloor, lover of alternative musical culture he has another facet to his credit.
He likes to produce songs where he gives free rein to all his imagination where the words of others would not be only dancefloor but also musicality, subtlety and travel. Music where he likes to take the time and embark with him in another world ... always accompanied by Jazz sound he loves so much.
You will understand, Aurelien did not stop surprising us that it is on the dancefloor and on an alternative scene there is a good chance for you to meet him in the course of this year 2019!
Reviewed by Nagamag on January 28, 2021