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This is the second album from the French duo Arom. It was recorded in the mid 00's and was supposed to be released in 2011. However, the project broke up and the album, mastered at the legendary Abbey Road Studios, after a short time went into oblivion, disappearing from the internet.

Their music is trip-hop and indie pop, created with groovebox and synths, constantly going into a variety of sounds - be it soul, ethno or acid jazz under "straight drum". The main thing is the vocals in French and English, somewhat reminiscent of Björk. The authors of the project are Dominique for the music and Caroline for the vocals. The name Arom is a combination of the letters of their names (cARoline and dOMinique).
They met for the first time in Paris in 1997 as students of the Conservatory and Theatre University. Their debut album was released in 2002 ("Jardin d'Eden").

Twenty years later, Label Cantroll releases their second album of the same name. This was made possible thanks to a label listener who spent a year looking for the authors, convincing them to publish the album and collecting the source tracks.
“I got acquainted with Arom in my favorite column from Cantroll - the column publishes underrated and good, but very rare music, where the debut album was published. At first I just liked the cover and the intriguing name of the band, but after listening - it became clear that this is one of the best albums I've ever listened to. I wanted to find more of their music. I got a piece of video from an old concert recording on the Ukrainian TV channel M1. I made a 4K remaster of this concert and decided to show it to the authors as a thank you. And here begins a real detective story!
It turned out that the band is extremely unknown and the only official Facebook community contains all the known information. The band fell victim to some problems with the label. And the second album in 2011 had disappeared from the free access, as well as all the other songs as a result of the MySpace collapse. I had to write to everyone who was even registered in the community with a request to help get in touch with the artists to show them my remaster and find out the fate of the songs.
A few people responded and helped me find the singer, Caroline, including her cousin by happy coincidence. Thus the first contact was established.
Later, Dominique (the music writer) was also found. He didn't answer anything. There was nothing to do but keep searching for the songs myself and hope for a miracle. On the Discogs page of the second album - there are five people who have this album. I wrote to all of them and got an answer from one fan, who, according to his account information, is a death metal fan. He still has a copy of the album! I was happy for a while, but the thirst for new music and the sadness of not having it anymore made me look for more bits of new information or live recordings. And then all of a sudden a member of the band, Dominique, answers me. We had a productive conversation and he promised to send the second album in good quality.

Another half of a year passed. And Dominique sends me the master versions: the complete second album, the lost songs from MySpace and the unreleased tracks. After telling this story to Mark from Label Cantroll - we decided to revive the project from oblivion: to do the paperwork, make the covers and officially release two LP releases in 2022” - Alexey Dormidoshko, music enthusiast / instagram.com/taras_banderas .