#Reunion island

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ph. Jeremy Suyker

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Jaojoby by Labelle (featuring Vola) from the Post-maloya EP (Free download/Name Your Price on BandCamp)

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Reunion Island Day Gecko (Phelsuma borbonica), family Gekkonidae, endemic to Reunion Island

photograph by Tikouet 

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Black & Whale by Gaby Barathieu

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Cluster of Vacoas, east of Reunion island

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Attractive girl from Reunion Island

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Reunion Island — Night Words (Tall Corn)

It feels like the members of Reunion Island have been laying back looking at the skies. Ashley Leer and Matthew Leer in Texas. Brad Loving in Washington state. All three absorb the music of Seefeel, Hood, Can, Pole and various members of the Kompakt stable — as stars, clouds and whatever space hardware pass above. Night Words seems to drift but Reunion Island are not afraid of rhythmic structures that reinforce their layered keyboards, guitars and vocals whispering sweet nothings about eternity and alienation. Tortoise drummer and producer John McEntire anchors the trio’s hazy, nocturnal songs as they explore different textures. Although, on their own terms, the songs are uniformly good, some better than that, the band seldom transcend their influences.

So, for instance, “Boapergrunta” has the loping gait and billowing synths of The Field to which McEntire adds a pleasingly loose live beat. There’s some understated guitar feedback buried in the mix which brings a little grit and an oscillating bass synth line copped from Martin Rev. “Melody” glides and glitches like Cold House era Hood, with near indecipherable vocals floating over drones and bleeps. The first single “On the way to Infinite” begins with the popping filters and warm bass tones of Pole over a syncopated drum program and yearning vocals repeat the title ad infinitum. “The White” skips along with the band hitting a groove of dubby bass and spacious droning keyboard lines. As the song opens out it becomes an almost ecstatic, wide sky epic of interweaving keys moored by McEntire in Jaki Leibezeit mode. All of this is very easy to get lost in and repeated listens reveal more detail in the carefully calibrated layers. For the most Reunion Island inhabit the same kind of liminal spaces as Seefeel and similar shoegazey dub and minimal techno influenced groups from the noughties.

I listened to Night Words a couple of dozen times. The first few parsing the influences and going back and forth on my thoughts about it. The rest because Reunion Island have made an enjoyable and atmospheric album with enough detail, melody, and kinetic energy to draw listener into their world. It may not blow your mind but it will alter your mood for the better.

Andrew Forell

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Home. Reunion Island circa 2012 ~ 2013 Taken with a Sony Cybershot DSC-S2100 (hello bluriness) A decade ago.

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since starting T, i end up finding myself so beautiful. it’s a weird thing for me, who dreamed about getting his face fully done when he was a teenager and still deeply deeply closeted. i never thought i could find myself beautiful in any way. i love my nose and my eyes, and how they tell the story of my ancestors. i have those naturally perfect brows that always made my girl friends jealous. my skin is smooth and my cheekbones are popping. i love my face.

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“ E c l i p s e “ // La Réunion // 2022

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Kartié Baster dann zané 1980 & Rasine Momon Papa par Thierry Gauliris

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Muqata'a remix of Souviens-toi by Labelle featuring Hasawa

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Reunion Island Day Gecko (Phelsuma borbonica), family Gekkonidae, endemic to Reunion Island

photograph by MC Fishman

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Oui, je fait des photos aussi…

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Artist SAB (Reunion Island) : set of views , sunset on Indian Ocean

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