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jeudi 30 juillet 2009

Loren Chasse - Hedge of Nerves (Anomalous Records, 2002)




1 Untitled (2:23)
2 Untitled (9:25)
3 Untitled (9:42)
4 Untitled (12:29)

Oval, Disc, Autechre... Lots of folks like that digital glitch stuff -- we do too -- but how 'bout some analog 'glitch'? Good old fashioned record crackle! AQ friend and fave sound artist Loren Chasse's new solo release, his first for Anomalous, totally delves into the realm of crackle, from records and beyond. For details, we may as well quote directly from the label's press release (since our own Allan wrote it!):
"The work of sonic artist/investigator Loren Chasse (solo, Thuja, id Battery, Coelacanth and various manifestations of the 'Jewelled Antler collective') usually involves the documentation and manipulation of minute sound events (rubbings, scrapings, clickings) involving found objects and natural phenomena, emphasizing unexpected perspectives and connections. Even when performing in the psychedelic improv outfit Thuja, his 'instruments' primarily consist of contact mics, a mixer, some rocks and twigs, and his imagination. Loren's processed field recordings are fragile and full of strange beauty and feeling.
"Hedge of Nerves is dedicated to a friend of Loren's who dearly loves the sound of record crackle as it mingles with the music from a record's grooves. He also enjoys the sound of record crackle alone, as when an LP cycles on its run-out groove. Compact disc reissues of early 20th century ethnic music 78s, or Portishead, or Philip Jeck: if it's got that crackle, he likes it! So, this friend asked Loren to make him a recording of vinyl surface noise only, one that he could DJ with, mixing with non-crackly musical sources, to create virtual scratchy records. For this reason, the idea was to avoid any obvious looping, but to make a continuous, unbroken and organic field of crackle. Thus inspired, however, the project soon turned into more than that, as Loren decided that it was more interesting to emulate the sound and texture of record crackle using other sources. The resulting cd indeed begins by utilizing sounds from a scratchy old 78 rpm disc (one recorded by Loren's grandfather in the 1930s at NBC Radio) but also explores more 'elemental' crackling sounds derived from fire and wind and water, from rustling branches, waves, and sand. Hedge of Nerves is dynamic, moving from loud crinkly-crackly storming sound-swarms to the sounds of a wilderness quietly bristling. It's a mesmerizing expanse of hiss and drone, buzz and click, with hints of melody (from his grandfather's 78). The originating idea of surface noise is ever-present, but upon closer examination that 'surface' proves quite deep, something within which the listener will become submerged, blissful and fascinated. Hedge of Nerves is a masterpiece -- just ask Loren's grateful crackle-loving friend, who files it with the best of Philip Jeck, Jonathan Coleclough, M. Behrens, Troum, and other masters of detailed drone constructions."
As you might have guessed, that friend of Loren's is of course our own Allan...and he really does love this disc!! (And he did manage to use an advance version of this to DJ with at the Beyond The Pale festival last year -- it goes really well with Bo Hansson, actually.) Even if you're usually wary of some avantgarde academic "experimental" sterility, try this out anyway, it's warm and organic and inviting in a way many glitchy, noisy things are not, like a bonfire on a desolate, foggy sea-shore.
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Loren Chasse - Fantasy Apparition (S'Agita Recordings, 2002)



1 Fantasy Apparition - Part 1
2 Fantasy Apparition - Part 2
3 Fantasy Apparition - Part 3
4 Fantasy Apparition - Part 4
5 Fantasy Apparition - Part 5
6 Fantasy Apparition - Part 6

During the past couple of years, San Francisco's Loren Chasse has split his time equally between textural minimalism, as found on his exceptional solo album "Exfolia Motors", and organic improvisations, as heard in Thuja as well as several other bands on the Jewelled Antler label. Yet, Chasse has released a couple of limited CD-Rs that bridge the two at times conflicting headspaces. "Fantasy Apparition" is one of those cross-pollenizing albums from Chasse, showcasing a good deal of sustained harmonium built into half melodies amongst Chasse's signature environmental abstractions, where low creaking drones emerge from blustery loops of slowed down cricket choruses and the hiss of burning wood. As always, Chasse contextualizes these field recordings and contact microphone striations with an amazing sense of mystery.
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Glassine - Birds Are The Life Of The Sky 1995-1997 (Jewelled Antler, 2001)

** sorry no cover art **

1 Lyca
2 Above The Wings Is Heaven
3 Orchard
4 Birds Are The Life Of The Sky
5 Kingfisher
6 Dust Is Falling
7 White Sands
8 Blight
9 Doorways

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mardi 28 juillet 2009

Ov - The Moon Is Down (Jewelled Antler, 2006)






1 The Chambers Of The Hand (8:43)
2 Spiritual Magnetism (3:56)
3 The Earth Was Once A Giant Animal (3:08)
4 Song Inside The Bower (1:43)
5 The Moonlit Door (8:11)
6 The Moon Is Down (7:40)
7 Devoted Realms (8:51)

This is a monumental occasion, the return of Jewelled Antler, after a seriously lengthy hiatus. This is the first Jewelled Antler cd since the last Of record, The Quartz Pond, way back at the beginning of 2005. It also marks the debut of newly married duo Ov, which just so happens to be sound artist Loren Chasse (Thuja, Blithe Sons, Child Readers, Coelacanth, Of, etc.), and former aQer Christine Boepple (Whysp, Skygreen Leopards Skyband, Kyrgyz, etc.). You know that whole 'beautiful music together' thing, but wow is that the case with The Moon Is Down. The first two tracks are lengthy abstract soundscapes of bells and chimes and gongs and percussion. The amazing thing is that the final result doesn't necessarily sound all that percussive, instead Chasse and Boepple manage to smooth the sounds into a dreamy billowy fog, with tinkling bells, reverberating chimes, it's like floating through a slowed down sculpture garden, huge pieces of metal slowly swinging, and gently rubbing up against each other, sending soft ringing tones to float softly across the gauzy landscape like dry leaves on a summer breeze, underpinned by slow low end pulses, smears of glistening shimmer and a constellation of glimmering tinkles. There are lilting guitars too, but plucked and strummed so sparely, they almost just sound like more chimes.
The record shifts gears after that, drifting from one dreamlike sound to another, a rich and exotic tribal landscape, huge swells of crystalline fuzz beneath fluttering flute melodies, primitive shakers and hand drums, and what sounds like forest sounds, drifting in and out of the mix, a world of alien lullabies, super distorted melodies over warm warbling woodwinds and textural percussion that sounds more like the crinkle of plastic, a gentle stream of fuzzy organ, buzzing harmonica, plink plonk guitar melody, pocket full of coins jangle, all bathed in a soft focus shimmer and some Eno-esque melodic ambience constructed from a dense assemblage of notes and tones, rich and oversaturated with tonal color, delicate minimal guitar strum and a mesmerizingly reedy hypnotic high end flute melody hovering in the background.
The final track is mostly made up of field recordings when the pair were on a trip to Germany, they were strolling through the quiet streets when suddenly the town's church bells began ringing, more and more, from every direction, a glorious cacophony, here there is a brief interlude part way through, a wheezing organ breathing out a fuzzy melancholy melody, but it quickly drifts away, leaving the record to fade out with just the distant pealing of bells. Wow!
Packaged in a beautiful hand printed sleeve, a strange angular crystalscape on the front, a mysterious symbol on the back, each sleeve with a different color ink and different colored paper. Includes an insert with liner notes and an image of some mysterious multi horned instrument on the other. As with most things like this, SUPER LIMITED!!!
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Horticultural Compass - The Apparition Of Bees (Jewelled Antler, 2005)



1 Plant Navigations, Part I
2 Moss Urn
3 The Primeval Glaze
4 Trilobites
5 The Grasslands
6 Plant Navigations, Part II

A friend of mine recently said that he actually has been enjoying some of the Jewelled Antler side-projects even more than some of the 'main' stuff recently. I am not really sure I agree on that, but what such a statement proves is that this loosely knit group of San Francisco-based musicians continues to be able to churn out exceptional music at the drop of a coin into a hat.

In the shape of Horticultural Compass (Samara Dun, Rob Reger, Donovan Quinn, Buffy Vice Sick & Glenn Donaldson) we get ceremonies of celebratory string massage, layered field recordings, swirling drones, beautifully plucked guitar plus the regular myriad of exotic instrumentation. The Apparition of Bees sounds distinctively Jewelled Antlerish but still quite unlike the other combos I?ve been fortunate to treat my ears with. Sometimes they border the haunting realms of Thuja?s improvised music, in others we get a glimpse of the Franciscan Hobbies? caterpillars of majestic oak beauty and at the most melodious and structured we get to experience a similar kind of slightly bent, mellow organic psychedelia as Glenn Donaldson does under his various tree monikers.

There's a loose and highly improvised approach to drones and quietly tinkling noise present here, and what makes it work so successfully is that the band just lets things wander wherever it?s natural to go next. I wouldn?t yet place this dark, slowly unfolding aural mystery up there with the best work of Thuja or the Franciscan Hobbies, but I wouldn?t be surprised if that has changed the next time we get to hear these guys.
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mercredi 22 avril 2009

Id Battery - Inferno From An Occult Diary (Siwa, 1999)



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A2 Untitled
A3 Untitled
A4 Untitled
B1 Untitled

L'alchimie du duo Brandon LaBelle - Loren Chasse fonctionne à plein pour créer des drones lo-fi paisibles....

Recorded almost two years ago, "Inferno From An Occult Diary" is the fourth album from the lo-fi dronologist outfit Id Battery. Here, Loren Chasse and Brandon La Belle present their alchemical duets crafted around field recordings, slow rumbling bells, creeping organ drones, and the lo-fi errors of cable buzz. Between the seemingly placid aquatic sounds of rain tumbling onto sheet metal and the sounds of electricity, an ominous realization occurs that these sounds - however tranquil - are also charged with a certain life threatening danger. Recommended as with the rest of Id Battery catalogue!
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Id Battery - Last Blue Before Black (Unique Ancient Tavern, 1998)



1 Untitled (5:46)
2 Untitled (18:48)
3 Untitled (5:06)
4 Untitled (17:42)
5 Untitled (9:49)

Drones subtils, bruit mininal pour impact maximal...

Architectural ruins, industrial detritus, trodden footpaths are turned into sonorous landscapes, and combined with minimal electronics, we get the latest environmental/ambient journey from this increasingly well-known duo of sonic investigators. ID BATTERY's instrument consists of nothing more than their ears and a belief in the moment.
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mardi 21 avril 2009

The Franciscan Hobbies- At The World's End (PseudoArcana, 2002)



1 Omens From Birds (4:36)
2 Centaur Envy (3:46)
3 The Black Chimes (4:34)
4 Seekers In Darkness (3:31)
5 The Unicorn Murders (6:24)
6 False-Hearted Love (7:43)
7 Echippus (0:43)
8 Table Of Figures (2:53)
9 Secret Of The Rose Window (5:10)

Le collectif Jewelled Antler sous une des ses incarnations les plus free...

The Franciscan Hobbies are one of the more anarchistic manifestations of the Jewelled Antler 'collective', The Hobbies themselves being a free-form, free-wheeling group of variable membership that turns idyllic nature excursions into documents of magical, improv folk psych. At The World's End comes by way of New Zealand cd-r label PseudoArcana, and this time around The Hobbies include 3 of the 4 members of Thuja, plus a bunch of their friends, including Donovan Quinn (Skygreen Leopards), Greg Bianchini (The Muons), and Cole Palme (Factrix). However, whoever's present on this recording isn't all that important, as they meld into a very relaxed communal music-making clan. Furthermore, discussion of instruments and techniques would seemingly convey less of a sense of what the Hobbies sound like than more poetic allusions to damp moss and dry leaves. Imagine napping in the undergrowth of a forest, dreaming drones and fractured melodies. Theirs is a drifting, indirect music, more hints and haunts than songs per se. And, we ask, how can you not love a record with a track entitled "The Unicorn Murders"??
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lundi 20 avril 2009

The Child Readers - Memory And Fantasy (Mallard Lake, 2004)



1 Voyaging (The Reds, Pinks And Purples) (10:54)
2 The Rainy Valley (Including Gale At Dawn) (7:26)
3 Death´s Death (5:11)
4 Sexual Anguish (Including The Psychic Castle) (4:02)
5 Mystery (2:06)
6 The Shark Airplane (Including The Children Of Argol; Jewel-Like Colors) (5:58)
7 Pouring Out Living Flowers (5:08)
8 Cry Of Mind/The Winter Capital (7:04)

Arriver a mettre la main sur ce disque ne peut etre du qu'au hasard. Ce premier disque de the Child Readers sort en effet sur le tres confidentiel label suedois Mallard Lake. Une visite sur le site du label peut permettre a l'auditeur curieux, de plus facilement apprehender la plongee en apnee dans ce disque dirons nous etrange. Memory and fantasy peut faire peur. Quelques bruits par ci par la, quelques echos de xylophone, de harpe, de mandoline, puis de temps en temps, un superbe morceau avec une simple guitare et une voix comme Mystery ou le premier chapitre de Voyaging. Mais peu importe la maniere il regne tout au long du disque une ambiance particuliere, assez sombre, inquietante, comme la route qui doit mener au chateau qui illustre la pochette. Ici rien n'est facile, ni l'ecoute, ni la comprehension, mais l'attrait du cote obscur est le plus fort. Memory and fantasy est un grand disque, tout simplement parce qu'il vous fait ressentir tellement de choses a la fois, qu'on en est bouleverse. Ce disque est derangeant, et superbe en meme temps. Difficile a decrire, a vivre, mais terriblement passionnant quand on en saisit toutes les subtilites, Memory and Fantasy est un disque fantastique et surtout hors norme. A decouvrir absolument. En vous remerciant.
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In a castle by the sea is where you'll find Loren Chasse and Jason Honea on their latest creation as The Child Readers. "Memory & Fantasy" leans more toward the latter, but it certainly evokes memories of my childhood as well. Like the branches of an ancient oak, these songs grow from the earth and lift their arms toward the sky. This, like most projects related to the Jewelled Antler label, is full of the inspiration found in nature. Chasse is one of the world's foremost sound sculptors when it comes to using natural objects, and that influence is felt all over "Memory & Fantasy." Through a variety of instruments and voices, Chasse & Honea create their own fantasy world in which nothing is more sacred than the earth.
Like previous albums, "Dark Laughter" and "Boy on a Cliff," "Memory & Fantasy" relies heavily on the organic sounds of a variety of acoustic instruments. However, where the two former albums had a heavy dose of field recordings mixed in, this new record uses more voice samples instead. For example, "Pouring Out Living Flowers" opens with a short clip of a German woman speaking. The effect of such a snippet is that it immediately sets off an array of images of pre-war Germany in my head. It's a brilliant use of something seemingly insignificant. But because of this woman's voice, I imagine the duo playing this song under the grey skies of 1930Õs Berlin. Cobblestone streets line the city and beautiful brick buildings line the streets. You feel like you're there, and Chasse and Honea are minstrels marching through the city, serenading anyone who will listen. It's well done.
While "Pouring Out Living Flowers" has a city feel to it, the rest of this album is deeply immersed in a fictitious forest. The opening epic, "Voyaging (the Reds, Pinks, and Purples)" is like the soundtrack to a slow summer stroll underneath a thick canopy of trees. The smell of impending rain is in the air. This 11 minute track embodies all the things I love about The Child Readers and Jewelled Antler in general. Clanging guitars with a droning hum underneath open this long piece and give the effect of leaves falling all around you. With the subtle sounds of a bubbling creek buried deep in the background, you can't help but smell the scent of cedar. Bowed strings add to the organic atmosphere and give the piece a hypnotic edge. Midway through, Chasse's trademarked percussive elements enter into the fray. He uses various natural elements to bring in another texture to an already dense piece. It's like walking along this forest path, watching as woodland creatures scurry away and watch from a distance out of curiosity. When the chiming of the acoustic guitar comes back in, and the flowing creek returns, it's like you've emerged from the most treacherous part of the journey. Now, you've come across an area covered in wildflowers, where the sun is shining and birds are singing. In the distance, you can see overgrown grass covering once-majestic statues. It's like utopia for anyone who loves the outdoors. "Voyaging" is the perfect soundtrack for the expedition to find this hallowed ground. This track is a summation for all that is great about The Child Readers.
The other side of The Child Readers is centered around more structured pieces, like "Sexual Anguish (including the Psychic Castle)." It opens with vocals, melodica, and quiet piano chords. There's a sense of melancholy spattered all over this track, especially as Honea or Chasse (I'm honestly not sure which voice is which) sings. I feel like I've been in this place before. You can feel the storm clouds forming overhead, and you can't help but feel the need to run for cover. As drums fade in, the skies open up and rain their mess down upon you. It's cleansing and frustrating at the same time. This short (by Child Readers standards, anyway) piece is definitely one of the most memorable on this disc.
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Loren Chasse - Script Lichen (Edition Graphon, 2005)




1 Script Lichen (19:34)

Délicate musique, faite d'objets trouvés en pleine nature (pierres, branches, herbages, mousse, ...), aux micromélodies à peine discernables...

There's no better way to visually represent the music of Jewelled Antler's Loren Chasse than with the various bits and fragments of nature's detritus, stones, pebbles, sticks, leaves, branches, dust and dirt. This newest release from Chasse goes a step further, encapsulating the disc itself (a little 3" cd) along with a sponge and a piece of lichen gathered from the German countryside in an actual petri dish, all in a sealed medical baggy. Wow. And the music inside is just as meticulously assembled as the packaging. Delicate and crystalline, intricate structures, microscopic movements, gentle reverberations, subtle scrapings, abstract shimmer and barely discernable micromelodies. It's almost impossible to tell which parts are natural ambience, and which parts are Chasse reacting and responding to nature, but that's what makes his work so vital and fascinating and what makes Script Lichen such an engrossing listen. And like the rest of Chasse's work, this is not something you just throw on (although you could), this music requires deep listening, active listening, the act of listening akin to a slow, exploratory wander through a sonic forest, every step causing brambles to shimmer and rub against each other, breezes to send leaves drifting earthward, the crunch of each step, the forest, and the earth around it, shifting slightly, the sonic evidence of such minute movements deftly captured by Chasse and reworked into a subtly different soundworld. So nice.
Each 3" cd comes packaged as we said in a petri dish with a sponge and a piece of lichen, wrapped in a medical baggy, every one with a sticker, and hand numbered...
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dimanche 29 mars 2009

The Buried Civilizations - Tunnels To Other Chambers (267 lattajjaa / Jewelled Antler, 2004)



1 Earthen Jars (0:17)
2 As Cold As The Clay (2:44)
3 Long Since Buried (0:14)
4 Moss Banjo (1:46)
5 Eastern Alluvial Plains (2:19)
6 Gallery Of Ancient Birds (3:40)
7 A Port In Sacred Waters (1:42)
8 Ostrich Eggs (0:58)
9 The Long Voyage From Sea To Sea (5:26)
10 People Of The Land (1:01)
11 The Transient Lakes (2:13)
12 Lily Of The Hills (2:31)
13 Ghosts In The Tunnel (4:04)
14 Vacation Route For Emperors (5:12)

folk rituelleet seulement à moitié structurée...

The Buried Civilizations are Kerry McLaughlin & Glenn Donaldson with Christina Boepple (tracks 5, 8, 10 & 13) and Rob Reger (track 9).
recorded at true cross & the church basement. mixed/mastered by gd at true cross.

"The Buried Civilizations perform strange Summerian liturgical music, perhaps found in the listening room in the ancient library at Alexandria or in a crumbling turret in Old Germany. Mysterious but semi-structured song-forms emerge from organ, guitar, flute, banjo & vocal explorations."

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OV - Noctilucent Valleys (Soft Abuse, 2007)



1 Arms Of The Mountain (2:13)
2 Spring Clock (5:03)
3 The Noctilucent Valley (3:37)
4 Bone Of The Bone Scholar / Moon Of The Moon Scholar (10:23)
5 Ghost Of The Future (4:59)
6 Centaur In Saturn (3:36)
7 Soul Of Swan (1:54)
8 The Noctilucent Cloud (8:03)
9 Canals (11:51)

Drones, lo fi, psych, free folk, etc, projet de Loren Chasse et Christine Boepple....

Ov is the collaborative project between Christine Boepple and Loren Chasse (a leading figure in Jewelled Antler groups like Thuja), and sees the duo taking on a kind of organic approach to soundscape abstraction. There's a genuine sense of magic to these recordings, which although steeped in a lo-fi haziness nonetheless manage to capture a real sense of compositional rigour and all-round thoroughness. 'Spring Clock' is the first track to really get the balance right between the degraded sound quality and the musical intricacy of the piece, and following on from there the album's title track features some of the most withdrawn, low-key vocals you're likely to hear on any record, while a corona of cymbal swell gives breadth to the otherwise rather small stereo field the album tends to occupy. The song itself is most clearly redolent of Charalambides at their very gentlest and is, frankly, incredibly beautiful. Taking a cue from Chasse's own field recordings album (The Air In The Sand) from a couple of years back 'Soul Of Swan' begins with a simply gorgeous watery ripple, making a bed for ancient-sounding guitar chimes. Even further removed from conventional song structuring are the droning bow strokes and sustained tones of 'Centaur In Saturn' and the closing driftscape, 'Canals', which over its 12-minutes incrementally converges on a bewitching sense of calm. Highly recommended.
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Loren Chasse - Synthesis Of Neglected Places (Unique Ancient Tavern, 2001)


1 Untitled (6:15)
2 Untitled (11:05)
3 Untitled (6:53)
4 Untitled (4:59)
5 Untitled (7:51)
6 Untitled (12:41)

Rythmiques assurées par des choeurs de criquets avec qquiLoren Chasse se met à dialoguer en musique...

Loren Chasse (Id Battery, Thuja, Knit Separates) originally released "Synthesis of Neglected Places" as a limited edition cassette but has finally released a second pressing as a cdr. The majority of these recordings were made during Chasse's sabbatical in the Pennsylvania countryside during the summer of 1999 and reconstructed later in San Francisco. This album reads somewhat like a diary through sound, at first merely documenting the landscape with an extended field recording of crickets endlessly repeating their rhythmic chorus. Even for his crickets, this environment appears to have been a lonely and lethargic space. Chasse slowly begins a textural duet with the insects with shortwave crackle and labored rock scrapings. In keeping up with Steve Roden's retro-grade process of being "experimentally incorrect" (where such 'pop' aphorisms of melody and Martin Baytes' baroque singing could be included with archetypal experimental techniques such as musique concrete), Chasse concludes his album with a beautiful selection of plaintive piano improvisations, rippling with a hazy production wash and tweeting birds in the distance. "Synthesis of Neglected Places" acts as a nice bridge between the droning abstractions of his solo work and his collaboration in Thuja.
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Id Battery - The Foot (Drone Records, 2002)





1 Sea
2 Sky

Loren Chasse et Brandon LaBelle: lo fi, field recordings, musique répétitive et électronique....

"The Foot" is perhaps the last document to be released from Id Battery, the collaborative effort between Loren Chasse and Brandon LaBelle. With Chasse well entrenched in the Jewelled Antler Collective (Thuja, Blithe Sons, Child Readers, etc), in Coelacanth, and in his solo projects, and with LaBelle pursuing a career in the academic realms of avant-garde composition, the likelihood of Id Battery recording again is small. Nevertheless, the acclaimed duo's Drone single "The Foot" is another wonderful document of their organic textures through low-fi found sounds, repetitive rock scrapings, soft electrical field disturbances, and strange hummings. "The Foot" is edited from the recordings made during Id Battery's performance during the Activate The Medium festival in San Luis Obispo in 1998. Artwork by Loren and AQ's Jim Haynes, and limited to 250 copies on marbled yellow and green vinyl. Very nice!
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lundi 9 mars 2009

The Blithe Sons - We Walk The Young Earth (Family Vineyard, 2003)



1 The Book Of Names (10:45)
2 Green Patterns (7:25)
3 All Children´s Faces Looking Upwards (11:28)
4 The Oldest Living Things (18:04)
5 We Walk The Young Earth (5:16)

"We Walk The Young Earth" commence de manière presque anodine : une guitare sèche, économe, égrène quelques notes. A peine une mélodie. Une voix blanche en fait pourtant son lit, et vient s’y poser délicatement. De loin, on dirait du post rock joué par des lucioles aphones. De près aussi, d’ailleurs. C’est beau comme un matin sans train en banlieue parisienne. La lumière encore rasante donne des tons ocres à cette gare que vous ne vous rappeliez pas si belle, et les oiseaux profitent de cette accalmie bienvenue pour redoubler d’ardeur et chanter comme jamais. En votre for intérieur, vous vous donnez encore quelques minutes de bienheureuse oisiveté, à feindre sur le quai maintenant ensoleillé un train qui, vous l’espérez, n’arrivera jamais. Mais déjà, les rails se mettent à gémir. C’est imperceptible, mais on distingue cependant avec une aisance étonnante des bouquets d’harmonies suraiguës qui, peu à peu, envahissent l’espace sonore. Alors on se résigne à monter dans le wagon déjà bondé qui va sans doute arriver. Mais aucun train ne se présente. Le bruit a beau s’amplifier, devenir de plus en plus confus, de plus en plus inquiétant, nulle locomotive à l’horizon. Pourtant ça grince maintenant à tout va. Ce n’est pas très fort, mais c’est indéniablement présent. Pour un peu, on jurerait que l’apocalypse est en marche. A moins qu’une improbable bataille ai lieu quelque part sous terre. Et puis, enfin, vous ouvrez les yeux. Vous ne savez pas depuis combien de temps vous vous êtes assoupi. Vous vous levez, vous dirigez vers la chaine stéréo et appuyez de nouveau sur "Play". "The Book Of Names", premier morceau de l’album des Blithe Sons, entonne sa lente psalmodie. Vous vous rallongez dans le canapé. C’est reparti. Bon voyage.
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The Blithe Sons’ third release (and first for the Family Vineyard label) is a sublime and focused extension of Glen Donaldson and Loren Chasse’s work within the San Francisco-based musical collective called Jewelled Antler. Recorded out of doors in a WWII-era bunker (Marin Headlands, California) and under a bridge (in San Gregorio, California), We Walk The Young Earth finds this duo very comfortable in these odd confines. Using landscape as instrument, they fuse the ambient sounds of nature into a ringing, chiming minimalist drone that evokes both modern classical and emotive folk-rock.

Donaldson and Chasse are the principal masterminds behind Jewelled Antler, a belt-loosening body of creativity. As both an aesthetic approach to sound creation and a CD-R based label, Jewelled Antler’s members are a handful of like-minded musicians whose imaginative gestalt is embedded in the axis of collateral improvisation, distilled and concentrated via their many shared projects. Be it Chasse and Donaldson in Thuja, Donaldson’s Mirza or Birdtree, Chasse and Jason Honea in Child Readers, or the other collective’s participants Steven R. Smith and Rob Reger, these multi-instrumentalists are becoming a formidable extended family of musical exchange artists. Sharing and influencing one another along the way, they are creating a burgeoning catalog of highly inventive sound recordings that draw from personal interaction with the environment, European and American folk, traditional ethnic music, psychedelic rock, and minimalism.

Blithe Sons releases have experimented with outdoor recording before. The band’s last full-length, Waves of Grass, released as a CD-R on the Collective’s own imprint, shares a permeable membrane with the out of doors, welcoming nature’s whimsy as a sonic interloper. Often, the elements are allowed to compete with warbling organ drones and loping guitar static.

On We Walk The Young The Earth, the Blithe Sons assuredly weave gentle guitar drone and barely audible percussive clatter into a sound semblance of dawn creeping over some distant horizon: tentative, yearning, hesitant, but inevitable and warm. Employing acoustic guitar, harmonium, bells, banjo, pipes, and battery-powered keyboard, a plaintive voice seeps into the emergent live improv bleat; the album’s five tracks create landscapes with quietude and supple pulse.

The natural world is a fundamental and recurring theme that cuts across the spectrum of the Jewelled Antler collective’s work, from the collage artwork of each CD-R through the unique recording methods and communion with the surrounding environs. This sincere and curious approach distinguishes Donaldson and Chasse on We Walk The Young Earth.
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The Blithe Sons - Dirt And Clouds (Jewelled Antler, 2000)



1 Essence And The End
2 The Black Kite
3 Crescent-Shaped Sails
4 Breath's Burial
5 Apparition Crown
6 Negative Clouds
7 The War Ghost
8 Dustward
9 Granite And Cypress
10 Calamus Parade
11 The Broken Pillar
12 The Flying Maze
13 Wood And Wire
14 Choros
15 The Falling Of The Grain

Première réalisation des Blith Sons qui puise ses racines dans le folk psychédélique anglais, la guitare de Glenn Donaldson sert de fil, tandis que le travail de production de Loren Chasse rend ces morceaux mélancoliques et extrêment intimes....

Loren Chasse, proud owner of a brand new cd-burner, began the Jewelled Antler label as an outlet to release small cd-r pressings of a variety of warbled psychedelic projects that have spun-off from his bands Thuja and Knit Separates. The Blithe Sons is the first such release, featuring Chasse and Glenn Donaldson (from Mirza as well as Thuja / Knit Separates). Despite hailing from San Francisco, Chasse and Donaldson have tapped into a vein of melancholic UK psychedelia which runs from the Wicker Man soundtrack through to the early instrumentals of Eyeless In Gaza and the pensive sounds of Richard Youngs. While Donaldson's expressive guitar lines are central to the Blithe Sons arrangements, the album's uniqueness is found in the production work which often positions the quiet instrumentation in the pronounced foreground making the songs so intimate, as to seem played right inside your ears... or brings in some quite textural noises (very common to Chasse's solo sound investigations and manipulated field recordings) as a 'duet' with the melodic lines of the guitar. Very nice work! Based on this, the next Blithe Sons release deserves be a "real" cd release on a proper label (although the musical quality, beautiful packaging and reasonable price of this release shows that cd-r labels are sometimes quite worthwhile).
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Coelacanth - Mud Wall (Helen Scarsdale Agency, 2003 (2004 reissue))


1 Mud Wall (58:23)

Coelacanth, duo américain fondé par Loren Chasse et Jim Haynes, est d'abord une collaboration ponctuelle basée sur la volonté de donner un "corps sonore" aux processus chimiques d'oxydation élaborés par ce dernier dans son travail artistique. En raison d'une passion commune pour leurs œuvres respectives, cette rencontre s'est vite développée pour devenir le fascinant laboratoire d'une science imaginaire où les musiciens, devenus un peu alchimistes, entreprennent de révéler les énergies cachées du monde et le lien secret des choses entre elles, à transcender leur insignifiance pour les envisager suivant des perspectives parfois hermétiques mais toujours poétiques et sensitives. A travers une grammaire de gestes et de situations rudimentaire et subtile, ils ont créé une oeuvre minimaliste tour à tour abstraite, hypnotique, psychédélique, violente, lumineuse, primitive et moderne : indéfinissable (irréductible à une forme ou un genre). Fondée dans le drone organique et la masse mystérieuse de sources infinies et transformées, c'est un "tertium non data" né de deux esprits forts et curieux, écouteurs attentifs d'un monde qu'ils veulent inouï et toujours à découvrir, entièrement soumis aux douces pressions des émotions, du temps et des métaphores qu'ils appellent. La musique de Coelacanth est comme un sédiment constitué de couches improbables, offerte aux sens de l'auditeur qui l'explorant selon sa sensibilité lui soufflera le sens et la résonnance primordiale.

Loren Chasse est un musicien discret mais très actif. Sous le nom de IdBattery (son duo avec Brandon Labelle) et en solo, il a composé une œuvre de musique concrète exigeante, entièrement constituée de phonographies (selon la définition qu'en donne Dale Lloyd) qui lui ont permis de jouir de sa sensibilité exacerbée pour le bruit discret des lieux (naturels ou urbains, souvent désaffectés ou désolés). Ce travail d'écoute passionnée est vite devenu le moteur de sa musique et le microphone, considéré comme une extention de son corps, l'instrument primordial dont il joue, littéralement. Chaque position, chaque geste effectué exposent une série d'intentions précises et tous les sons, aussi bruts ou désincarnés qu'ils puissent être, suggèrent une présence active et régénératrice. Ces délicats relevés sonores re-composés dans des œuvres abstraites de drones magnétiques (souvent classées dans le courant minimaliste "lowercase") se soucient peu de documenter un phénomène sonore, préférant à cet "objectivisme" une approche subjective et souvent spontanéiste du son rendue dans la création de vrais espaces métaphoriques qui exposent l'infini relationnel des choses entre elles. C'est un peu comme une introspection derrière laquelle il s'efface... Avec Glenn Donaldson, il a initié le label/collectif Jewelled Antler, dont les groupes Thuja, Blithe Sons ou Franciscan Hobbies (entre autres) écrivent les pages incandescentes d'un folk moderne contaminé par l'improvisation pastorale, les ragas hypnotiques, le drone et la réverbération naturelle des paysages épiques dans lesquels ils aiment se lover pour enregistrer. On peut y entendre la même spontanéité, les mêmes caractéristiques d'un son organique et troublé procédant de gestes méticuleux. En dépit des variations esthétiques et d'une configuration collective, il s'agit toujours pour Loren Chasse d'une expérience quasi fusionnelle avec le moment et l'environnement, qu'il considère comme des composants fondamentaux de sa musique. Celle-ci est la captation d'une atmosphère dans laquelle il se fond : c'est sa fiction poétique.

En comparaison, le background musical de Jim Haynes est presque inexistant. S'il est comme Loren Chasse un écouteur obsessionnel de musique et de tous les bruits avec lesquels il entretient un rapport existentiel très fort (dont il donne les traces intransigeantes avec des articles pour The Wire), il reste avant tout un artiste visuel dont l'œuvre, régulièrement exposée, est par lui ainsi résumée : "J'oxyde les choses". Elle est composée d'objets qu'il confronte aux processus chimiques de son invention pour provoquer leur détérioration progressive (rapide et sensible mais qui perdure sur plusieurs années). Cette rouille, envisagée en termes de concept, de processus et d'esthétique, dit l'intensité de son rapport au passage des "choses" à travers le temps. C'est une autre grammaire, une autre poésie extraite du banal... Pour appuyer l'idée du temps qui passe et trouver dans cette fatalité une beauté "sauvage", ses expositions sont souvent enrichies d'environnements sonores proches du drone. C'est une partie de son art qu'il a déjà largement travaillé à travers un album intitulé Magnetic North, joyau émotionnel et résonnant en forme de drone organique et suspensif.
Coelacanth est donc avant tout la rencontre de deux médias : le son et la sculpture. Fondamentalement, elle opère ce lien en se basant sur l'utilisation instrumentale des objets de Jim Haynes, ou en appliquant au son des processus oxydants similaires à ceux qu'il utilise pour les créer. Toutes les dimensions de leurs œuvres et des compétences respectives (résumées ci-dessus) peuvent s'y redessiner en suivant cette perspective simpliste mais déjà passionnante de l'interaction et de l'influence. Mais c'est surtout DANS cette alchimie que se trouvent la remarquable singularité du duo.

La discographie du groupe, rare, laisse entrevoir le tissu complexe de cette collaboration volontairement brumeuse (les indications précisent seulement que la musique est tirée de performances privées ou publiques). Du point de vue strictement esthétique, Coelacanth compose une musique abstraite et minimaliste qui s'engage dans le "drone suprême", un drone presque primitif aux textures toujours organiques. C'est une base ambiente perméable sur/dans laquelle s'agrègent une quantité infinie, discrète et minutieuse, de motifs et de manipulations qui influencent beaucoup leur pesanteur et leur progression. A cause de ces inclusions parfois insaisissables et éphémères, la nature de leur musique est le plus souvent erratique et incertaine, ouverte d'une façon si évidente que cette esthétique générale, qu'on peut qualifier de "minimalisme brisé", ne se soumet certainement pas à un calendrier défini ou à l'application d'un concept quelconque. Elle procède d'une exploration plus subjective, instable et mystérieuse par essence. C'est pourquoi les disques de Coelacanth résonnent si différemment en dépit de grandes similitudes. The Chronograph est minéral, peut-être le moins figuratif. Ses mouvements sont les plus discontinus, piqués de grattements et de frictions stratifiées qui tracent des reliefs acérés de limaille ferreuse. The Glass Sponge est plus "marin", décrivant des mouvements plus fluides, doux et circulaires. Mud Wall est en comparaison dense et linéaire, un flux lent et quasi terreux. C'est aussi celui dont les zones sont les plus expressionnistes, où la brume se dissipe pour découvrir une tendance plus figurative de la construction.

En fait, chaque disque de Coelacanth est une incarnation parmi celles possibles de leur musique. Ils sont librement re-composés à partir de leurs performances, toutes enregistrées sur plusieurs formats (minidiscs, cassettes, bandes, micro-cassettes...) afin d'obtenir différentes perspectives du son qu'ils vont manipuler (souvent en leur conférant un peu plus d'abstraction) pour l'inclure dans des nouveaux contextes de corrélations troublantes. Le duo ne s'attache pas au phénomène du "live", il ne s'agit donc pas de le documenter ou d'en respecter l'essence. C'est par contre cette dimension où le jeu et l'écoute sont indissociables, cette spontanéité fondamentale qui détermine la subtilité des résonnances et crée ces vibrations labiles aux textures si particulières, à la fois lo-fi et précieuses. C'est le "moment" (comme dans leur travail solo) qui engage pour beaucoup les couleurs de la musique, les tensions et les émotions qu'elle va exprimer.

Cette particularité de la musique suggère un geste qui n'est plus seulement musical, mais également visuel. La musique est abstraite parce qu'elle est faite de systèmes électroniques basiques (feedbacks, ondes radios, perturbations électriques) et de "sons réels" fragmentés et présentés d'une façon telle que leur origine s'en trouve obscurcie, que ce soit sur disque (traitements et montages) ou en concert (l'improvisation). Il faut comprendre "sons réels" comme des field-recordings (également obscurcis par la méthode d'enregistrement), mais surtout comme le produit d'actions banales (broyer, appuyer, frotter, agiter, tamiser...) sur des matériaux communs (tissus, verre, sable, eau, bois, air, eau, terre, boue, métal, rouille bien entendu...) qu'une écoute attentive laisse deviner. La musique naît ainsi de détails gestuels et de situations improvisées à partir d'un ensemble d'objets déterminé avant chaque session. Les deux artistes créent un "petit théâtre des opérations" (en référence au beau projet de Thierry Weyd) en décidant de leur juxtaposition et de la lumière dans laquelle ils vont se fondre pour s'inspirer et activer ces "choses" dans des recontextualisations intuitives et poétiques.

Cet œuvre visuelle ET sonore est à envisager comme le laboratoire élementaire d'une science imaginaire ou même ésotérique dont la généalogie ici présentée ne fait qu'effleurer la richesse des possibles. Transformer le métal en or, telle est la teneur du projet et son fascinant mystère. La musique de Coelacanth est un sédiment composé de nombreuses couches de sons, d'histoires, de ruptures et de références qui vont de la biologie marine jusqu'aux fragments apocryphes du Nouveau Testament. Sa poésie réside dans la façon dont ses couches s'influencent ; le son est la radioscopie, l'agent phosphorescent qui va révéler les mélodies fantômes et les discrètes constructions qui traversent son cœur, tracent son essence. Ies musiciens trouvent les prédispositions relationnelles des éléments banals qu'ils explorent pour développer leur potentiel poétique et polysémique. Coelacanth n'est pas engagé dans une recherche formelle ni conceptuelle (aucune qui soit explicite en tous cas), aucune indication ne permet de comprendre vraiment le sens, s'il existe, de leur musique. Ce ne sont pas ses stratégies ni sa conception qui priment, même si elles affleurent nécessairement, mais ce qu'elle suggère librement d'une métaphore. En tous points, le duo privilégie cette communication et ses conséquences possibles. Il cherche à stimuler l'imagination et élargir la perception du réel en révélant ces énergies cachées, parfois déconcertantes, des choses (et) du monde. C'est une musique quasi psychogéographique (l'étude des effets précis du milieu géographique, consciemment aménagé ou non, agissant directement sur le comportement affectif des individus, selon la définition basique de son inventeur Ralph Rumney) ou du moins psychoacoustique (au sens que John Duncan donne au mot) par sa capacité à affecter les états psychologiques (la notion du Temps qui passe et cette amour du moment en dessinent le principe) et à en fixer les états intermédiaires.

L'écoute attentive de ces constructions vibratoires et transcendantes fera le reste.
Coelacanth, dans tous les cas, ça fait du bruit...
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Coelacanth is the collaboration between audio speleologists Loren Chasse and Jim Haynes, who have returned from the depths with the fully realized documentation for their third album Mud Wall. For those versed in the pastoral psychedelia and minimalist hymns of Jewelled Antler (i.e. Thuja, Blithe Sons, Franciscan Hobbies, etc.), Mr. Chasse needs no introduction. Mr. Haynes is an artist and journalist who has something of a reputation thanks to his chemically corroded visual sensibilities and his opinionated thoughts found in the pages of The Wire.

Together as Coelacanth, Haynes and Chasse operate the tools of an imagined science to explore the various possibilities for sound to originate from traditionally non-musical materials. Alchemy, as a systematic if impossible attempt to transform base metals into noble ones, is an adequate parallel to Coelacanth's arena of research. Chasse and Haynes encourage sympathetic relationships between carefully chosen materials and sounds, and push them in ways that they might transcend their purposefulness. Copper, stone, glass, sand, shortwave radio, rust, wind, water, and mud are the active participants in their events and situations, providing both metaphoric potentials and visual sensibilities for Coelacanth’s activities. From these situations, the duo invokes a sound that is an aggregate of sustained harmonics, continuously evolving sound forms, and broad gestures of textural details, and that which could be described as a 'broken minimalism.'

Originally appeared in a condensed version on the Mystery Sea imprint, Mud Wall represents the third report for Coelacanth. The twenty minutes of recomposed material and a beautifully silkscreened packaging now render Mud Wall complete. Within their metaphoric laboratory, Coelacanth sifts through viscous electrical fields, slumbering vibrations, and aerosolized pricklings to arrive at a sublime construction coursing with a monumental physicality. Coelacanth's sound research situates itself somewhere between the quiet expressionism of recent AMM and the John Duncan's psychological inquiries; yet at the same time, Chasse and Haynes prefer to leave the subject matter of their investigations an unknown quantity. In their purposeful hermeticism and ephemeral poetry, Coelacanth teases potentials for meaning and allows the listen to fill in the rest.
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dimanche 8 mars 2009

Loren Chasse - Exfolia Motors (Unique Ancient Tavern, 2000)


1 Plumb Susumn
2 Exfolia Motors
3 Exfolia Motors
4 Furniture Next To Twilight
5 Exfolia Motors
6 Furniture Next To Twilight
7 Exfolia Motors
8 Exfolia Motors
9 Fantasy Of Heat
10 Furniture Next To Twilight
11 Plumb Susumn
12 Fantasy Of Heat
13 Fantasy Of Heat
14 Plumb Susumn
15 Fantasy Of Heat

Superbe disque constitué de quatre pièces qui s'entremêlent, drones constitués de cloches, gongs, field recordings, etc...

Odd to think that this is only the second solo recording for San Francisco's exceptional sound artist Loren Chasse after his numerous outings with id battery, Thuja, and The Knit Separates. "Exfolia Motors" is a collection of four different works, whose sections are mixed up and interspersed along the continuum of the disc... as if each of these sections have been broken from their original narratives and been rearranged in a more poetic fashion. "Exfolia Motors" presents a beautiful crystallization of droning sound with origins in various bells and gongs, the dynamic pulsations of an amplified strobe light, field recordings from rural Pennsylvania, and the crackling details of paper, rocks, and cloth. Chasse accentuates his source materials with a soft-focus haziness that recalls the tonal purity of Andrew Chalk and Jonathan Coleclough. Rather than extended drone floats, Chasse prefers to situate small events in which he gently smears his subtle sound recordings across stark white silences. Goddamn beautiful.
While certain labels (Meme, Trente Oiseaux) were a bit too slow and missed out on releasing this, we're certain that this wouldn't have had such amazing artwork (each cover is a different hand rubbing from a rough piece of wood... as opposed to the stark non-existent design work of either outfit) if Chasse hadn't put it out through his own imprint Unique Ancient Tavern. Recommended!

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mercredi 25 février 2009

Ulaan Khol - I (Soft Abuse, 2008)


1 Untitled (3:17)
2 Untitled (4:37)
3 Untitled (7:12)
4 Untitled (3:05)
5 Untitled (4:58)
6 Untitled (3:15)
7 Untitled (5:05)
8 Untitled (1:59)
9 Untitled (3:15)

Enième et dernier projet en date de Steven R. Smith, on croirait entendre un groupe psychédélique japonais, guitare primitive noyée dans un océan de bruits...

Throughout his career as a solo artist, and through membership with the celebrated ensembles Thuja and Mirza, Steven R. Smith has had a hand in creating some of the most compelling and singular instrumental psychedelic music of the past ten years. Smith's latest project, Ulaan Khol, moves beyond the Eastern European-inspired sources and scales employed by his work as Hala Strana towards an approach alternately true to his personal musical lineage and in a realm beyond any pre-existing work. As Ulaan Khol, Smith digs in deep with a palette of drums/guitar/organ to craft a monolithic & expansive free form, feedback-heavy atmospheric din that bonds the disparate realms of Fushitsusha and High Rise with Popul Vuh and Flying Saucer Attack.

As Ulaan Khol, Smith has planned a maximalist three-part suite, 'Ceremony.' In the first installment of the trilogy, I, the tone is overwhelming bleak as the pieces (all untitled) caterwaul, moan and crumble. Dripping with basement doom, Ulaan Khol's cosmic histrionics emanate with the raw essence of White Light/White Heat jettisoned by Harmonia's amorphous drifts.
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jeudi 5 février 2009

Kyrgyz - Kyrgyz (Digitalis, 2006)


1 Kyrgyz (Crown Of The Yurt, Window To Heaven) (23:47)
2 Clown Hands Dokalmak (11:08)
3 Hirzur Vadisi (Peaceful Valley) (6:52)
4 Ele Almak (5:50)
5 Kyssa (2:05)
6 Yurt: Invitation (11:37)

Kyrgyz est, des productions 2006 de la Bay Area, un des projets les plus excitants et les plus risqués à la fois - car en réunissant trois musiciens parmi les plus en vogue de la côte ouest expérimentale américaine, Robert Horton, Tom Carter (Charalambides) Loren Chasse (Thuja, Coelacanth), et Christine Boepple (Skygreen Leopards Skyband), Kyrgyz forme, quelque part, ce qu'on appelle dans le monde rock un "super-groupe". Type de formation qui, bien que parfois prolifique, tend surtout à prouver que les talents artificiellement réunis s'annulent plutôt qu'autre chose.

De ce point de vue, Kyrgyz est vraiment une bonne surprise. Il se trouve que le quatuor ici constitué est d'une complémentarité et d'une capacité à l'improvisation qui n'a rien d'artificiel. On serait même tenté de dire que chaque intervenant voit ici sa spécialité mieux mise en valeur que sur nombre de disques solo.

Horton, joueur comme jamais (c'est certainement lui qui introduit sonnettes de vélo et autres jouets dans la session), trouve les partenaires qu'il cherchait peut-être depuis 20 ans. Les impro drone/psych/minimalistes de Tom Carter, sur son électro-acoustique, apparaissent sous une nouvelle lumière, parfois noyés dans la masse, réduits au drone, puis refaisant surface sur la seconde piste, sous un jour inédit, avec un son rythmé et franchement psychédélique presque proche de Sunburned (un son qu'on retrouve aussi sur son nouveau duo avec Horton sur Digitalis). Le jeu de Chasse est peut-être le moins reconnaissable, moins "concret" qu'à l'accoutumée, plus touche-à-tout, et il y gagne en fait beaucoup d'intérêt. Mais Kyrgyz, en rassemblant des musiciens aux personnalités extrêmement fortes et différentes, réalise surtout la prouesse - certainement est-ce le fait d'une simple intuition commune de l'impro - de constituer un album et des morceaux très cohérents, passionnants, et qui non seulement n'ont rien à envier à d'autres formations du genre plus "naturelles" (Vibracathedral Orchestra, par exemple), mais s'installent en plus dans un son très personnel, à la fois aéré, sans jamais laisser tomber la pression, et souvent léger, un peu mystérieux. Comme ces lointains pays d'Europe de l'Est, si lointains de la Californie...

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Don't worry about the unpronounceable album name - it's not the decaying spirit of IDM that hangs over Kyrgyz, it has been taken from a country (Kyrgyzstan) and it's all above board, nothing to see here sir! Anyway, on to the more important stuff - this is another release from the hot Digitalis label and sees some of the finest exponents of the psyche/folk/avant/weirdness scene get together for a kind of spiritual love-in. Loren Chasse is one of ...
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