Fourth release by Hox Vox, it’s a concept album about stars – both intended as prima ballerinas and celestial bodies – and their issues.
Genre is a series of mixes with world music, symphonic progressive, a bit of contemporary and kraut electronics, always with the free approach of Rock in Opposition tradition (from Zappa to Henry Cow): sometimes resulting in complex structures with mindbending pairings of melodies and subtle detuned arrangments.
Étoile start with a Residents-like intro sung by a couple of real pigs, then a piece of math/art rock, sounding like a too dry death metal. Then from Rhythmbox the record begins wedging prog, contemporary, world and electronics.
