Review

The most recent release in the so far very interesting ‘budget’ [compact-compact] series of this fine electroacoustic label is by a relative newcomer who also has a full-length release available on empreintes DIGITALes. Les corps éblouis is a piece realized using only sound material from electric guitar, which has been manipulated to such an extent that only a few passages are recognizable as said instrument. Nicely flowing in that GRM style you know and love, and free from the abrupt, jarring sounds of much tape music, but not without a certain controlled intensity. The piece builds to a spiraling and dramatic (though not over-dramatic) climax which concludes with a nod to Hendrix. Worth checking out; this is one of the good ones.