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Belgian oboe player Dienne Bogaerts, already a composer of theater and dance
soundtracks, recorded
Silhouette (2020) with her cellist sister Nelle under the moniker Lili Grace.
Suave vocal harmonies meet discreet cello-oboe-piano accompaniments in songs like Silhouette. The double vocals play gently in the
jazzy piano lullaby Fishing Spot as well as in the
moving aria Nothing Human.
Traveller is Enya -esque litany.
There's another, extroverted side to the project: the intricate industrial beats of The Horde and the Afro-funk dance Not God.
Addio (2022), credited simply to "Dienne", is a requiem for her grandmother ("addio" means "goodbye" in Italian).
Dienne simulates an entire chamber orchestra, playing her oboe, piano and flute,
and occasionally singing.
Addio, with overdubbed vocals, sounds like a Renaissance psalm.
Piccolo e Cattivo could be a Tomaso Albinoni adagio.
The evocative Mio Signore is like a gentler, slower Ennio Morricone soundtrack.
There is also a surrealistic moment, Felicitazioni, with fractured vocals, orchestral samples and repetition.
And the album ends with the moving elegy Ti Saluto.
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