Le thème de ce disque est, chacun l’aura compris en voyant les intitulés des titres, la guerre. Cette guerre qui a jalonné le vingtième siècle comme la peste et qui grâce à la médiatisation l’a encore rendue plus ignoble. Il n’y a aucune fierté à faire la guerre et on y trouve aucun honneur. J’enfonce des portes ouvertes me direz-vous mais les aficionados de la bonne guerre sont encore nombreux et il y en a encore qui lui trouve une quelconque vertu. De là on ce que l’on trouve cela normal il n’y a pas loin. Triste monde. Les leçons de l’Histoire ne se retiennent pas ou si peu.
Ce duo composé par les romains
The idea and concept of immigration, of migrations, of peoples and people journeying for better lives, traveling the roads of hope, have inspired the title – and the content – of this CD.
Yes, we all should know and remember
The first work on the CD is
A number of street-vise vexations embellish
The transformation into part 2 of
The third part of
The voice comes down with a scrubbing harshness of gently applied delay and chorus, until it begins to mimic a young school girl trio all by itself
The second piece (tracks 4 – 6) is
A signal haze, a mist of electric calls, a submarine or shortwave matter, taken seriously… and the piece is on its way, but be careful when listening through earphones, for loud, albeit nicely polished spheres do appear, quickly and without warning – with the exception of this warning of mine.
The wood incision makes things even nicer, opening a space between high-rise trees where the songbirds fly in electrocardiogram motions, from hideout to needle hideout.
The last piece is
This begins very differently, compared to other get-goings on this CD
It’s hard to keep cool hearing this. I’d like to play this loud for those ignorant buddies of mine who will have nothing to do with electroacoustics, those dance band swingers and women chasers in their upper, divorced and aging middle-ages. I’d bang this piece in their somnambulistic heads, to make colors and motions appear behind their eyelids.
The second section of this last piece mangles and cuts and shreds sounds into flying flakes of some kind of reality, an impossible puzzle of existential parts that eventually will come to rest in the most outrageous patterns
The last part of the last piece begins with a consoling or just all-knowing female uttering the words “l’immobilité”, at first just like an all-knowing female would, and then chorused and birdied, sounding like a bunch of colibris trembling in the air in front of you, slowly hovering up, down, left, right, in a minuscule motion. A male voice also enters, and later the voices whisper and chew the words, while the electroacoustics amplify or subdue the morphemes in brilliant auditory applications, making everything stick, come together in a wondrous web of sounds. Thins start getting faster and more relentless, but a safe female voice cuts down like an ax, stopping the force of sounds. This exchange between voices, one at a time, male or female, and a tremendous, fast electroacoustism, keeps on keeping on, in a flabbergasting, ear catching amassments of splendid ideas
There tends to be a lot of electroacoustic albums around these days inhabiting the realm of sonic creation invented by the likes of
I’ve been listening to this album on and off for over a month. In fact, this disc is thus far the one I’ve had to listen to the most before feeling capable of writing a review that would do it justice. This was a hard review. Look at the rating and you’ll see that the difficulty didn’t have anything to do with a less than stellar listen. This is an invasive and infectious listen that I felt I needed to really research (listen to often) to be able to write a sound review.
How to describe the overall sound
I found the first couple of tracks a little listless, though quite listenable, with moments that drew me in, like the rolling rhythmic sound of
I really got into the album around the sixth track,
You’d think the mish-mash of sounds would prove distracting, but they don’t. This is one of those albums that has you sitting on the edge of your seat, waiting to see what the next song will do, how it will “feel”. Will it be another dark and dangerous offering, or an indie-electronic wonder that will get your ass out of the seat and on your feet.
This is the kind of disc you need at your older 20-something/early 30-something party. It will get your guests away from the snack table and cause them to hover around the stereo wanting to know who this is, what the next song will sound like, and where they can get a copy.
C’est devant tout le milieu québécois de la musique de concert qu’
Le facteur, complice du musicien
Cette distinction montre combien le travail des luthiers, facteurs et autres artisans importe dans la démarche artistique des musiciens. Cette importance peut difficilement être mieux démontrée que dans le travail d’
Pour
Un bon instrument fait toute la différence pour le musicien. Le claveciniste
La démarche artistique de l’artisan
Depuis plus de 20 ans, les clavecins
Tous ses instruments sont fabriqués suivant les principes de la facture traditionnelle
Fasciné par le travail sur la sonorité, c’est tout naturellement qu’il en est venu à enregistrer les bruits produits par son travail en atelier pour ensuite se faire électroacousticien et produire un disque très original intitulé
Acquéreurs et utilisateurs
Les clavecins d’