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Didier Bocquet - Voyage Cerebral - 005

We Dream In The Sun We Tan When We Can

Excerpt from daily improvisations

The Bunny Tylers And Oiseaux-Tempete

We Dream In The Sun We Tan When We Can

full audio from the video posted on facebook 

https://www.facebook.com/ziad.mouka/posts/10156933080380111



Both Ends Work - Questions Of Worry

from 'Relationships Between Inner & Outer Space' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den289
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/moonzero]

The first set of new Moon Zero cuts in two years, ‘Relationships Between Inner & Outer Space’ is a product of fevered displacement that nonetheless achieves a temple-like sense of calm, proportion and permanence. Scheduled for release in November 2017 on Denovali, the record is carpeted in traces of the settings that producer and composer Tim Garratt has found himself since we last heard from him, from Reykjavík to Leipzig with anything from a Dictaphone up to a studio to hand - it bears sounds from a vast number of different spaces, instruments and machines across its four colossal tracks. Paying attention to these rich patterns, they move and wind you in, producing a deep and rewarding catatonia.

While touring the first LP ‘Moon Zero’ (2015) Garratt lost his studio and flat, a relationship came to an end and he briefly moved back to his parents’ in the Midlands. An emotional parabola familiar to anyone experiencing an economically-adrift, prolonged adolescence, it was heavy fuel for the melancholic sound world of Moon Zero. You can make out the origins of the record at the bottom of its multi-story wedges of sound, through dancing, duelling blocks of frequencies. And you can follow (somewhat obliquely, filling in the gaps) the inflections of different processes that these textures and melodic ideas have undergone, as Garratt moves them from machine to machine, speed to speed, room to room, through different combinations of effects. This churning celestial chaos, built painstakingly from detuned instruments, mono synths, field recordings and tape loops, is then meticulously ordered in the editing room.

The first side is in two tracks, each divided into two sweeping musical gestures, ordered by tone into a sequence of light-dark-dark-light and ending in a crescendo pulse with a ‘Loveless’-like shimmer. The flip is also in two long tracks, each one a continuously-building, monolithic tranche. The change at the opening of the third number, ‘Erwood Araf’ is signalled with the entry of an unthreaded melody that repeats and gradually distorts while other caverns of sound open underneath and around it. Then, again on the halfway point, the idea dissolves and a minor key swell aches into frame before breeze block low end is deployed. One of Moon Zero’s go-to sounds, an alloy of bowed cymbal, tape delay and who-knows, invokes the sound and disembodying feel of a train pulling into a station, if that moment could be elasticated and dragged far out. Emitting a chrome-sheen continental modernity, it’s probably the emotional centre of the record and calls to mind Kraftwerk’s ‘Trans-Europe Express’ and ‘Radio-Activity’ albums. Towards its end, on the nine-minute mark, in rides a soaring melody that surely has its roots in Garratt’s Eastern European travels.

Each expansion of the Moon Zero universe has felt like a logical progression along lines set before, becoming ever more inventively structured and ambitious with its sonic palette but never straying from its nucleus of menacing, meditative drone. Fresh from playing Ruhrtriennale Festival alongside Actress, Demdike Stare and Ricardo Donoso amongst others, ‘Relationships Between Inner & Outer Space’ is due to be released in October and Moon Zero will be announcing further shows in due course. This latest installation is the most profoundly affecting Moon Zero work to date; an unparalleled piece of infrasonic, atmospheric manipulation.

Relationships Between Inner & Outer Space

Moon Zero - Sunk Cost

Kali Malone’s “Organ Dirges 2016 - 2017" is a collection of isorhythmic canons following the tradition of pipe organ requiems found in early modern music. Malone’s purified organ dirges echo embodied recollections of the piercing numbness of those battled encounters when the armours were stripped down, left with nothing other than will power, yet still standing upright as the columns of Sounion. The soothing and perceptive harmonies resonate to a presence that leans elegantly towards a courageous aftermath and a gleaming salutation. While the dirges themselves have minimal melodic and rhythmic variation, they appear in constant cyclical motion, revealing their refracted selves in a coherent yet unpredictable manner; like a rotating wheel where all spokes are perceptible but at any given moment in a different place.

Kali Malone (b. 1994, Colorado) is an American artist living and working in Stockholm, Sweden since 2012. Her solo works implement unique tuning systems in minimalist form for analog and digital synthesis often combined with acoustic instrumentation - such as pipe organ, string and wind instruments, lute and gong. Malone’s 2017 debut LP “Velocity of Sleep” was released on her own label XKatedral following tape releases put out by Ascetic House, Bleak Environment and Total Black. She is active in the groups Sorrowing Christ, Swap Babies, Upper Glossa with Caterina Barbieri. Her sophomore LP “Cast of Mind” is due spring 2018.

http://shop.ascetic.house

ASCETIC HOUSE
201∞

Kali Malone "Locus Of Repetition"

Body of Water

Shadows Show Violet

componction

ME 
(Felicia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma)

From 'Comme Un Seul Narcisse'
Shelter Press / SP070

https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/album/comme-un-seul-narcisse

Comme Un Seul Narcisse

ME (Felicia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma)

less bells 'forest ghosts'

LA TÈNE / & JACQUES PUECH & LOUIS JACQUES / & GUILHEM LACROUX & JÉRÉMIE SAUVAGE

ABANDONNÉE/MALÉJA

BONGO JOE (BJR038)/THREE:FOUR (TFR051)
OUT DECEMBER 2018
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ALEXIS DEGRENIER : AMPLIFIED HURDY-GURDY - VIELLE À ROUE AMPLIFIÉE
CYRIL BONDI : PERCUSSIONS - PERCUSSIONS
D’INCISE : INDIAN HARMONIUM, ELECTRONIC, PERCUSSIONS (C) - HARMONIUM INDIEN, ÉLECTRONIQUE, PERCUSSIONS (C)

WITH / AVEC

A & B
JACQUES PUECH : CABRETTE -  CABRETTE
LOUIS JACQUES : CABRETTE, 23'' BAGPIPE - CABRETTE, CORNEMUSE 23''

C & D
GUILHEM LACROUX: 12 STRINGS GUITARE - GUITARE 12 CORDES
JÉRÉMIE SAUVAGE: ELECTRIC BASS - BASSE ÉLECTRIQUE

A: L'ABANDONNÉE
B: PARADE DU SOLIAT

C: LA MALÉJA
D: DANSE DE L'ORTHA

Enregistré / Recorded
A & B 21-24.10.2017
C & D 19-22-03.2018
INSUB.studio, Genève, CH
par / by d'incise
Mix par / by d'incise
Artwork par / by Lionel Catelan
Photo par / by Cyril Vandenbeusch

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