Mes enceintes font défaut:
Qui de mieux placer que le réalisateur Guillaume Vallée pour mettre en image la douce et tendre complicité musicale qui existe entre Joseph Sannicandro et Stefan Christoff? Probablement personne, puisque Guillaume sait faire défiler les couleurs et les formes d’une manière totalement fusionnelle avec les élans de nostalgie que nous lancent les deux musiciens avec tant d’aplomb. La sublime vidéo pour Orbiting Mercury in a Dream nous berce avec des éclats de souvenir qui nous atteignent directement au cœur. Cette exclusivité que nous sommes très fébriles de présenter sur le site est issue d’une toute nouvelle parution du duo sur l’étiquette macédonienne élan vital. Ce disque soigneusement intitulé La Lumière Du Soleil Dans Un Demi Sous-sol pourrait difficilement mieux porter son nom, car il agit sur nous tel un rayon qui perce les rideaux et qui vient nous apporter du réconfort dans cette période de crise. Alors, laissez-vous réchauffer par cette fabuleuse union entre sons et images et n’oubliez surtout pas d’écouter l’album en entier par la suite. Bonne écoute!

SilenceAndSound
Avec un titre comme La Lumière Du Soleil Dans Un Semi Sous-sol, Joseph Sannicandro et Stefan Christoff ne pouvaient que nous embarquer dans un périple onirique aux spasmes électroacoustiques vibrants et aux field recordings granuleux.
C’est un voyage dans l’existence que nous propose le duo, nourri d’enregistrements de terrains et d’orgue fatigué, de bruitages familiers et de mélodies apaisantes, bien que chargées émotionnellement, traversés de notes de guitare aux racines vaguement méditerranéennes.
La Lumière Du Soleil Dans Un Semi Sous-sol circule dans l’espace et dans l’immensité, emporte avec lui des bribes d’histoires communes perdues dans le flot incessant d’informations.
Les points communs se dissolvent en nuages cotonneux, pour nourrir d’eau, des terres gorgées de rêves fraternels. Joseph Sannicandro et Stefan Christoff improvisent sur les sommets de l’Olympe, donnant à entendre de gracieuses volutes abreuvées d’écoute et de partage. Magique.

Son of Marketing
La Lumière Du Soleil Dans Un Semi Sous​-​sol is the new collaborative album between Montreal based musicians and sound artists Joseph Sannicandro and Stefan Christoff. It is out via Élan Vital Recordings.  

Independent Clauses
“Orbiting Mercury in a Dream” – Joseph Sannicandro + Stefan Christoff. This is one of the tracks where the whole review is right there in the title. Do you want to know what this ambient track sounds like? It sounds orbiting Mercury in a dream. If that sounds appealing to you, inquire within.

Vital Weekly (1293)
Elan Vital Recordings is a “Macedonian music label releasing a limited edition of handcrafted CDs and tapes from international artists focused on obscure aspects of sound, accompanied with carefully created artwork and video art. Each release will have a limited CD or tape edition with hand-numbered and stamped artwork.” I reviewed a cassette by this before (see Vital Weekly 1171). The duties are thus divided: Stefan Christoff (acoustic guitar, piano) and Joseph Sannicandro (electronics, synth, ebow, loops, melodica, production). That is not mentioned on the cover, but then, nothing much is mentioned beyond the track titles and label information. The Bandcamp page says that Christoff plays an old organ and acoustic guitar and nothing much is mentioned for Sannicandro, but maybe he’s responsible for field recordings and sound effects? I assume these are recent recordings, although I have no reason to believe such a thing. This one seems even less politically inspired than their previous releases, or maybe it is hidden in a place we can’t see it. Of the recording, it is said that these are an exchange in sound, which could have happened in a room, but just as well they might be exchanged via the Internet. From the way the music sounds, I would say the two men are sitting in a room; a log cabin might be a likely candidate. There are a few outdoor sounds, waving through the window in the opening piece ‘Exhaust Wav’, but from there on, in the other eight tracks, microphones pick up the organ and all the sounds the machine when played, the strings on the guitar, but also the squeaking of the chairs these men sit upon. All of that cleverly mixed with what I think are extraneous field recordings, and some sort of moody electronics, which stays gently in the background, but are nevertheless ‘there’. I found their previous release, the first I heard from them, to be part of the world of post-rock, and this one is no different. Think of this as a stripped-down version of Town And Country or Ben Vida‘s earliest work; intimate music, with sparse notes, slow drifts, a bit of gentle dissonance. The music sounds like the listener sits on another squeaky chair in the same small cabin and by concentrating on the effort of listening, everything becomes audible; each sounds plays a part. This is a beautiful exercise in slow music. (FdW)

Fluid Radio
“There’s a gentle balance in this song and some recent scenery I was exploring and the images and sounds came together easily, the humming repetition meeting and dispersing like elements and leaving a soft pattern. Rhythms of wind and water and light form colors and shapes and fit into the spaces made by music. This was an exercise in making ephemeral things tangible and also the feeling of floating on the ocean and they’re layered so that they blend indecipherably.” – Francesca Tallone.