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Billy Bultheel - Two Cycles
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 138
Release Date: 08 March 2024
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/TwoCycles

Billy Bultheel's debut solo album is an ambitious distillation of the composer's,' sprawling litany of influences and his unique approach to site-specific composition. A compilation of pieces created between 2016 and 2023, the album is a forceful testament to Bultheel's expansive performance practice and collaborations with cutting-edge visual artists like Anne Imhof and James Richards.

Drawing inspiration from industrial music and metal as well as medieval and baroque polyphony, Bultheel devised a way to present this collection of works side-by-side. The record is split into two distinct cycles: the Snow Cycle, which collects Bultheel's electro-acoustic and compositional work, and the Game Cycle, which assembles his electronic productions. These two suites have unmistakable symmetry; Bultheel's traditional compositions are bolstered by his understanding of electronic production, while his electronic pieces are moulded by his knowledge of classical and traditional music. "Two Cycles" is an album that exhibits duality, embodying the dichotomy of Bultheel's roles as both an ensemble composer and an electronic producer.

The haunting opening track of the 'Snow Cycle', 'The Arcades Project', — named after the unfinished compendium of architectural contemplations penned by the eminent German philosopher, Walter Benjamin - places four tubas in strategic towers surrounding the audience, creating an immersive auditory experience. Conversely, 'The Snows of Venice' — named after Alexander Kluge and Ben Lerner collection of short stories and poems — was conceived for two flautists directed to intertwine their melodies as they traversed through knee-high water.

The 'Game Cycle' meanwhile places a strong emphasis on rhythm, crafting a sonic landscape that resonates with overdriven metallic clanks and sharp stabs. Drawing upon his extensive experience in composing for choreography, Bultheel envisions a series of jittery dances that purposefully deviate from conventional timelines. 'Decreation' infuses techno with the visceral qualities of noise music and 'Game Theory' offers an unsettling skeletal barrage of saturated, precisely tuned percussive hits. Bultheel brings 'Two Cycles' to a close with 'Gigue,' a reference to the 6/8 baroque court dance that traditionally marked the conclusion of a dance suite; by merging marching rhythms performed by two percussionists on a single drum set with chaotic and evocative synth leads, he establishes a tantalizing counterpoint.

'Two Cycles' is a musical compilation that explores the themes of locale and landscape, elucidating the intricate dynamics that arise between the musicians and their audience, the ears and the architecture. Considering timbre, density and the psycho-acoustic qualities of communal spaces, from the warehouse to the cathedral, Bultheel draws indelible lines between seemingly distant concepts, merging the celestial with the terrestrial.

The double album cover, one for each side and cycle on the record, features a collage created by the Welsh video artist James Richards that merges medieval iconography with snippets of queer memorabilia.

All tracks written by Billy Bultheel
Mixed by James Ginsburg
Mastered by Enyang Urbicks

Billy Bultheel - 9ssp (Game Cycle) (PAN 138)

Recorded in Max 8

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Beautiful, entrancing set from highland bagpiper, composer and improviser, Erwan Keravec.

In seeking out the more unusual sounds, and ways of playing and listening to his instrument, far from its original cultural setting, Keravec explores improvised music, free and ‘noise’ jazz. With an interest in movement and in settings associated with reinvention, he also writes, plays and improvises for dance.

In this performance, recorded in October 2022, Keravec lets the breath ebb and flow over 40 hypnotic minutes. Dense tones buzz and drone, woozily circling the room, occasionally breaking into brief peels of light before building up into rapturous hamonic clusters and almost-giddy uliulations. With a sound that seems to perfectly fill the room - and make full use of its own sonic idiosyncrasies - Keravec utilises a dizzying range of techniques that makes this solo instrumental set one to savour.

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Recorded by Billy Steiger
Mixed and mastered by James Dunn
Cover photograph by Nicolas Godin

Erwan Keravec - 23/.10.22 [excerpt]

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For "Al Amakine", Abdessamad El Montassir, 2016-2020

Création sonore réalisée pour l'installation "Al Amakine" d'Abdessamad El Montassir en collaboration avec Matthieu Guillin, compositeur.
Composée originellement sur un système 8.1.
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Coproduction avec/with: Abdessamad El Montassir, Le Cube – independent art room, Carte Blanche par Al Safar, l'Institut Français du Maroc, l’IMéRA avec l’aide du Labex RFIEA+, le gmem-CNCM-Marseille et la plateforme CHRONIQUES, soutenue par la Région Sud, la Ville de Marseille et l'Institut Français à Paris, coordonnée par SECONDE NATURE et ZINC .
Pièce sonore réalisée en collaboration avec le compositeur Matthieu Guillin.
Poésies/poetry : R'wijel Wel M’birik, Sid Ahmed Wel M'liha, Baibouh Wel Elhaj, Badi Wel M'hamed Salem
Voix/voice : Wel Sidi
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"Al Amakine", ravive les micro-histoires et les archives non-matérielles du Sahara au sud du Maroc, rendues invisibles.
Transmis oralement par les populations locales dans un langage poétique, ces témoignages relatent des événements politiques, culturels et sociaux importants qui se sont déroulés dans cet espace géographique et constituent une matière historiographique essentielle.
En collaboration avec des poètes et des citoyens-témoins, Abdessamad El Montassir cherche minutieusement les lieux porteurs de ces événements latents afin de les mettre en lumière.
En ré-activant ces récits méconnus, il ouvre un interstice inédit qui laisse émerger et se déployer une histoire alternative et endogène de ce territoire.

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Sound creation created for the installation "Al Amakine" by Abdessamad El Montassir in collaboration with Matthieu Guillin, composer.
Originally composed on an 8.1 system.
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"Al Amakine", revives the micro-histories and non-material archives from the Sahara to the south of Morocco, made invisible.
Transmitted orally by the local populations in a poetic language, these testimonies recount important political, cultural and social events that took place in this geographical space and constitute essential historiographical material.
In collaboration with poets and citizen-witnesses, Abdessamad El Montassir meticulously seeks out the places where these latent events take place in order to bring them to light.
By reactivating these little-known narratives, he opens up an unprecedented gap that allows an alternative and endogenous history of this territory to emerge and unfold.

"Al Amakine" (stereo reduction for headphone)

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