Though the closest Godin comes to the excitement of Contrepoint is the jazzy, suite-like finale "Cité Radieuse," Concrete and Glass is still a fine example of his distinctively smooth style. Another highlight is "Catch Yourself Falling," a poppy collaboration with Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor that sounds so natural, it's surprising that he and Godin haven't worked together before. Kadhja Bonet's elegant turn on "We Forgot Love" makes it easy to envision her singing it alone in a gorgeous but empty penthouse. Godin's other collaborators also help distinguish the album from his prior work. It's often more streamlined, as on "Time on My Hands," a sculptural track featuring impassioned vocals by Kirin J Callinan. However, Concrete and Glass isn't a rehash of Air's music. Godin even includes some of the whimsy that prevented his previous project from seeming too pretentious with "Turn Right Turn Left," a sci-fi pop duet with a route-finding app that makes navigating Los Angeles sound blissful. With its vocodered vocals, spacey electronics, and a melody that flirts with several moods - romance, loneliness, nostalgia - without settling on any of them, "What Makes Me Think About You" harks all the way back to Moon Safari's "Remember." "The Border," an homage to Mies van der Rohe, recalls the spacious, late-night moods of Pocket Symphony. As its name suggests, Godin's second solo album is ultra-sleek and airy, in both senses of the word. If Contrepoint's dazzling fusion of classical, jazz, Tropicalia, exotica, and left-field pop and the flawless '60s spy music homage of his Au Service de la France (A Very Secret Service) score felt like reactions to the iconic sound he crafted with Air, then Concrete and Glass is a welcome return to it. Much like an architect, over the years Godin has built on his music's foundations while continuing to innovate. A skilled use of structure and space is just as important to composing music as designing a building, and the weightless drift of his music is as much of a feat as a skyscraper that seems to defy gravity. Advantage positioning of logs vertically allows for longer burn time up to 7-8 hours. Fireplace all cast iron and enamelled steel. More chance of that with wood because of the nature of the burn.ĭo you want to sell it? I know where a good home is.where it remain in its current state.Looking back on his career with and without Air, Nicolas Godin's beginnings as an architecture student become more and more apparent - and not just because the first song he created, "Modulor Mix," was a tribute to Le Corbusier. Fuel: wood burning, logs up to 25cm and 50cm vertical. as long as you do your part in closing the ash pan door you are very unlikely to ever over fire this stove. Keeping the stove in better condition in the long run because. Less overall maintenance, as in creosote removal. Less heat cycling, as in more constant heat output at a more constant temperature. I understand this is not what you want to hear, but I would not recommend you burn wood in that little stove if you want to keep it pristine.īenefits of burning anthracite coal in it far out way the wood burning. Why does he do that? To remove the ash off the outer layer of the wood before placing the meat on the fire.Īlso, the air paths inside that stove could clog with creosote if you burn wood. That is why you’ll see an old cowboy Chuck wagon cook fan the flames with his hat before laying his steaks on an open fire grate or even on the wood itself. You can see ash forming on the outside of a piece of wood as it burns. With wood it burns top down, or outside towards the inside. Coal ash forms from below and grows upward and you can’t see it on top. But burning coal is a bit of a problem for me. It is in nice shape, but after I got it home I noticed that the exhaust box is sized for a 4' flue. The manufacturer' tag on the back states that the stove is rated as 'au charbon' (for coal). Additional coal on top slows the air flow from underneath. 1 I have recently acquired a Petit Godin 3726 (small oval). The coal burns from the bottom up through the top of the load of coal. It’s a coal stove!! Sure, you could burn small amounts of wood.as in barely filling it up, but bigger loads can cause it to get too hot and potentially ruin the outside finish.Īnthracite burns much different than wood. STOP!!If you want that stove to remain as is, either don’t use it, or find out what size anthracite coal to burn in it.
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