Musique pour 3 femmes enceintes by Canadian musician and producer Marc Leclair is one of those albums where you immediately want to put the needle back to the beginning. The electronically minimalist work from 2005 unfolds slowly, breathing and almost weightless. Leclair produced the album for three close friends who were all pregnant at the same time. The titles, named after stages of pregnancy, attempt to capture the moods associated with them in musical form.
Across its 72 minutes, Leclair layers sounds, alters their density, opens spaces or draws them back again – always shot through with an optimistic sense of romance. On »85e Jour«, for instance, wafer-thin synth surfaces and slowly pulsing movements carry the track and gradually stretch it out. »150e Jour« also shows the strength of this approach. Guitar and piano samples come together to form a precisely arranged fabric that, despite its meticulous detail work and fullness, never feels overloaded. It is precisely this combination of fidelity to detail and gentleness that makes the album timeless – in reduction, an emotional world of its own emerges, one into which you want to let yourself fall. What remains certain? The desire for constant repetition.
