Whether working with his project Ensemble or under his own name, French multi-instrumentalist/composer Olivier Alary makes music with a filmic complexity. Born in Toulouse, France, Alary moved to London in the late '90s to study electro-acoustic composition at Middlesex University after completing a degree in architecture. He began making music under the name Hearing Is Our Concern and submitted demos of his music to labels including FatCat. After switching the name of his project to Ensemble in 1998, Alary released 2000's Sketch Proposals via Aphex Twin's Rephlex label. The a...