One listen for this one, and of the three Antoine Dufour songs I’ve written about today, I feel this was the easiest. Perhaps that is due to having warmed up a bit, or maybe it’s due to having a sense of less happening in the song. Not sure.

Antoine Dufour’s “Life in Technicolor” is from Convergences.

I hope you enjoy.

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There’s a vague sense of something there. It is faint, but it gradually fades in, shimmering, shining and quickly comes into full view. Fragile and flickering and producing wonderful tones and soon the full range comes into view, and there’s a beauty to this.

Wonderful is the collage of sounds and space without cluttering, and they move around each other, slowly and quickly, and breathe. They hover and float and seem utterly still and utterly in motion, and they fade out perhaps too soon. They fade as though only a brief flash, showing all with little time and become a vague passing; a fleeting memory.

Silence lingers and stretches much like a perceived nothingness, but it is space for the sounds to continue past their disappearance, and eventually that silence stops at the song’s end.