Cyclorama

by Polo & Pan

Overview

Parisian duo Polo & Pan (Paul Armand-Delille and Alexandre Grynszpan, respectively) have made a name for themselves as producers of infectious, bouncy electronic pop with strong tropical highlights and a colorful, sometimes retro aesthetic. Their 2017 debut album, Caravelle, featured a panoply of quirky samples and singers and stood out thanks to both its tight craft and loungey elegance. Polo & Pan's delightful 2020 EP Feel Good seems to have been a precursor to this second full-length, Cyclorama, as three of the EP's four cuts have been folded into this set. Like the duo's debut, Cyclorama is fashionable, melodic, and undeniably fun, mixing dancefloor appeal with smart pop songwriting. Not unlike their European forebears Air and Roeyksopp, Polo & Pan blur the lines between electronic music's traditional roles of producer, artist, DJ, remixer, and composer, managing a bit of each with plenty of finesse while creating a distinctive brand of their own. And they sing! The cinematic "Ani Kuni'' is the album's showstopper here with its cinematic Morricone-like intro and choral melody based on an Indigenous Arapaho chant. The album's sequence winds through carefully paced moods, pitting dark against light with the eerie "Requiem" into "Feel Good" combo before moving into its second half. Polo & Pan have an impressive sense of scope, moving through myriad exotic landscapes without losing sight of their signature sonic palette and innate sense of class. The result feels like a sumptuous global journey accompanied by a cocktail tray and two impossibly suave tuxedoed guides. ~ Timothy Monger

Product Details

Release Date:	06/25/2021
Label:	Caroline
UPC:	0602438075720

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Polo & Pan   Primary Artist,Flute,Vocals,Ocarina,Percussion,Choir/Chorus,Vocals (Background)
Channel Tres   Primary Artist,Vocals
Antonin   Primary Artist
Vladimir Cosma   Conductor
Irfane Khan-Acito   Vocals (Background)
Natale Massara   Conductor
Jerome Goldet   Double Bass,Guitar (Baritone)
Marlon B.   Drums
Leonard Le Cloarec   Flute,Clarinet,Saxophone
Axel Lecourt   Flute,Percussion
Jim Grandcamp   Guitar
Antonin Bartherotte   Vocals,Choir/Chorus,Featured Artist,Guitar (Acoustic),Vocals (Background)
Pierre-Marie Dornon   Drums
Victoria Lafaurie   Vocals,Choir/Chorus,Fender Rhodes,Vocals (Background)
Sylvain Rabbath   Banjo,Piano
Armand Penicaut   Vocals,Choir/Chorus,Vocals (Background)
Paul Armand-Delille   Vocals,Moog Synthesizer
Alexandre Grynszpan   Vocals,Choir/Chorus,Vocals (Background)
Noemi Ferst   Choir/Chorus,Vocals (Background)
Ayca Yaren Sahin   Choir/Chorus,Vocals (Background)
Chloe Siegmann   Choir/Chorus,Vocals (Background)
Lea Petges   Choir/Chorus,Vocals (Background)
Marco Fonalf   Ngoni,Guembir,Karkabou
Mattias Mimoun   Fender Rhodes

Technical Credits

Johann Sebastian Bach   Composer
Vladimir Cosma   Composer,Producer
Public Domain   Composer
Daniel Kendrick   Interpretation
Giuseppe Donaggio   Composer
Jerome Goldet   Interpretation
Sheldon Young   Composer,Lyricist
Leonard Le Cloarec   Interpretation
Axel Lecourt   Arranger,Interpretation,Recording Arranger
Jim Grandcamp   Arranger,Interpretation,Recording Arranger
Stan Neff   Mixing
Antonin Bartherotte   Composer,Lyricist,Interpretation
Pierre-Marie Dornon   Engineer,Interpretation
Jerome Castille   Composer
William Christison Lyall   Composer
Bruno Bertoli   Arranger,Recording Arranger
David Thomson Paton   Composer
Victoria Lafaurie   Composer,Lyricist,Interpretation
Mathias Mimoun   Interpretation
Sylvain Rabbath   Arranger,Interpretation,Recording Arranger
Polo & Pan   Producer,Interpretation,Additional Production
Paul Armand-Delille   Arranger,Composer,Engineer,Lyricist,Producer,Interpretation,Recording Arranger
Alexandre Grynszpan   Arranger,Composer,Engineer,Lyricist,Producer,Recording Arranger
Maurice Powell   Composer
Cyril Leclercq   Mixing Assistant
Geraud Bois   Interpretation
Marc Alfon   Composer,Interpretation
Stanislas Neff   Mixing
Marco Fonalf   Composer,Lyricist