Lovely beginning to the first track, percussion sneaks in structuring the melodiousness. The tack is changed but retains the initial sense of confident energy. Expédition Montparnasse moves nicely enough, though I did not feel the potential summit was attained, otherwise nice enough as an electronic track. Dernier Signal was a nice interlude, nice encapsulation of a little variousness.
The title track, Onde Nocturne, begins quite elegantly and then the rhythm pops in quickstep, like it's a cantering horse. Then more dramatic strokes of synthetic noise add perfectly to the background. At it's peak the direction takes the opportunity to shift slightly to one side, and it then blends back in just right. Or was it left? Either way, it works nicely. An exotic rhythm begins with Errance, and it continues, and then it's gone. Aquanoïde brings to mind some strange entity from future aeons, and imagining something that relates to water in a totally different way physically. The piano held the ship to shore well enough, though it gets a bit rough out there. In fact, I think that one broke the rope, then end of the track proves the point, it just didn't quite fuse well enough and the track was good enough in itself, to have done without it even. There were the odd moments when it melded well, but more odd than not, methinks.
Bush Attack is a firm resolute sound from the start, it's good but somewhat tenuous in places, and felt more effective the quieter the guitar layer was, then the track is more balanced. Sounded better for being less. Evasion starts nicely, and begins to have nice sense of variation on the theme. Well-balanced and well structured and the change in tone was appreciated, it went well, nice sense of darkness almost, perhaps a shadow but certainly powerful for its simplicity. I like this track, nice one! Now it has an ending that Uranus Experience immediately continues but with a change in direction, to a gentle, spacious piece of electronic music, it shimmers nicely. Overall, nice impressions, but watch that tightrope, watch the balance of layers, sometimes they predominate and distract from the fundamental track. In certain combinations, when it works well together it's great stuff, some nice sounds. Thanks.
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