Review by Chain DLK:
This is some nice minimalist piano / drone work. The website describes the disc this way: "The Icicle Lectures Vol. 1 sees Fischer combining the glacial drones of the predecessor with the warm radiating piano drops of Finnish discovery Miina Virtanen. The end result is an airy, hardly tangible composition of removal and recurrence. Like feathers falling down on an icy surface in slow motion." There are only two tracks here. Track 1, "Silence Thoughts II," is a short, pretty minimal piano piece. Rather enjoyable. The second track, "The Icicle Lectures Vol. 1," is much longer, weighing in at 34 minutes. This track is a bit more involved, building in complexity and depth. It consists mostly of slowly changing drones, with much less of the piano that figured so prominently in the first track. I have to admit that I missed the piano, but it returns at about 16 minutes in. The piano and drones seem to take turns in the limelight. It almost sounds like this is more than one track – at almost 12 minutes in, the track stops, then starts again. Overall, this is nice background / reading music. It doesn't demand a lot of the listener and easily slides into the background. The disc as a whole weighs in at 41:39.
By eskaton

Review Unruhr:
(...) One of the most beautiful albums of this year so far. (...) Even though I'm not really a piano-fan, this composition (...) has such an irresistible drive between variation and repetition that the instrument as such sounds "new", unspent and without cliches. (...) This is one those records which aren't only capable of suspending time, but offering new details with each listen.
By n

Review Musique Machine:
In a sense this is the antithesis to the Bexar Bexar album I reviewed earlier. That album conveyed the feeling of chilling out on an afternoon, after a burning hot day. This album is more of a chill, but equally soothing.
As the title suggest the atmosphere is icey and cold. After a lonely flute which introduces opening track Silence Thoughts II we'll get to meet the tender pianoplaying of Miina. Minimal and moving in cycles this first track is basically a solo piano piece. Along the course of the second, much longer, title track the piano gets treated by electronics. While the piano tinkers on in a cyclic fashion, Tobias Fischer (Feu Follet) echoes, processes and morphs the sounds to add to the atmosphere of sparkling ice-crystals, calm and serene, like sitting in the halls of an icecave.
The Finnish/German combination presented here works very well, and taking the "vol. 1" from the title we'll probably see more of them in the future. With this first CDr-release they sure start on a good foot with an interesting mix of contemporary composed music, ambient and a mild sense of drone.
By Martijn Busink

Review Feindesland
A remarkable collaboration (...). An incredible opportunity to escape from these hectic times. (...) A must-buy!"
By Raphael Feldmann, Click here for full review

Review by Taakefrost
It was hard to imagine that Feu Follet could get any more beautiful and quiet than on "toi et le son". (...) One is even tempted to award this music the inherent character of a pervasive, almost meditative timelessness. (...) The recreation and the hence resulting recovery, between icicles, frozen lakes and the glaring north-sun, which softly carves through the icy winter-air, was arguably rarely transferred that intensively and authentically in experimental as well as artful way like it's the case on whole line here.
By Frostkrieg, Click here for full review