Un moment suspendu dans le temps

from 'Scandinavia' [CD|2xLP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den245
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/multicastdynamics]

Samuel van Dijk is an electronic music producer, sound designer and media artist from the Netherlands, having released electronic music under a variety of projects, namely, Mohlao and VC-118A. With his current project Multicast Dynamics he creates ever-evolving sound textures culminating in intriguing soundscapes while preserving a tranquil cinematic atmosphere. Drawing inspiration from nature, technology, film and fiction, his music productions, live sets and audiovisual work presents a carefully arranged, recorded and processed body of work, using a vast amount of layered sound textures, field recordings and live improvisation. In May 2015, Denovali Records released the first two albums of a four part series by Multicast Dynamics, conceptually linked by our undeniable connection with nature and its wide range of landscapes, colors and movement. Now the third album called SCANDINAVIA follows in October 2015??.  The album series moves from an evolutionary to a cosmological scale: Starting from dry land filled with light and streams, to the constantly changing surfaces of the oceans, into a frozen and murky underwater world, finally up to the arrival in an interstellar space and the cosmos. With this concept Multicast Dynamics explores organic and aqueous worlds in a dreamlike and spiritual appearance.

SCANDINAVIA is the third installment in the four part series. Assembled during the coldest season, it’s an album full of contemplative electronic recordings, created by the use of granular synthesis, obscure delay units and rudimentary looping techniques on magnetic tape. Recorded with a longsighted outlook, SCANDINAVIA features washes of subdued tones and textures as well as melancholic and warm sounding pulses of noise - all characterized by distinctive aquatic features. Steadily flowing, but slowly awakening the album draws frozen remote landscapes ranging from dark, cold and desolated to melting, warm and hope.
SCANDINAVIA opens with a bleak arctic environment in deep hibernation, where echoes of glacial bursts cut the silence. An undulating mass of viscous ambience sends out blurred out signals through the storm. In this inhospitable surrounding of frost and ice slow changes appear. The form of the landscapes alters and the cold air no longer hinders the breathing. Slowly meltwater seeps out underneath thick layers of ice, slowly building up in momentum and space. Layers of hypnotic atmospheres with barely perceptible undercurrents, brooding pulses of bass and tonal patterns lead to the core of the sonic landscape. Gently radiant layers of light and soil emerge and aquatic echoes expose new paths. The water is harnessed. Preparations for a long journey have begun.

Scandinavia

Multicast Dynamics - Massa

itle: Obscured By Beams Of Sorrow 
artist: Hakobune & Dirk Serries 
Release Date:2015/9/9
Country of Origin : JAPAN
Catalog Number:WPMC025
Format(s): CD



Bandcamp
https://chiheihatakeyama.bandcamp.com/album/obscured-by-beams-of-sorrow

購入
http://whitepaddy.thebase.in/items/2002775

Track List
1 the slow movement of thought
2 harrowing surface
3 nocturnal pillars of solitude
4 obscured


Obscured By Beams Of Sorrow is the first collaborative recording between Hakobune and Dirk Serries. 
minimalistic electric guitar drone sound melody is pulling the listener into imaginary drone world.
this record has atmosphere of a deep bamboo forest with no sense of reality, such as wander.
and listener will see hallucinogenic visuals Somewhere to see scenery Such as the events in the dream and will feel sustained bass drone sound such as the Freudian obsession.
 

Vidna Obmanaとして80年代より活動するDirk SerriesとHakobuneによる初のコラボレーションアルバム。
Dirk Serries長い活動歴の中でLow, Mono, My Bloody Valentineといったアーティストのサポートアクトなどもつとめ、
現在はフリージャズと即興のためのレーベルを運営している。ギター・ドローンを基軸としたアンビエントなスタイルで2015年には
MachinefabriekことRutger Zuyderveltとのコラボレーションアルバムも発表している。
Hakobuneもまた、2007年より、多数の作品を発表し、2015年にはテクノ系のアーティストによるリミックスアルバム『Vitex Negundo Re Worked & De Constructed』をリリースした。
この作品ではお互いのギタードローンが大海を漂う波風のように、現れそして消えていく。現実感のない深い竹林を彷徨うような、
どこか見た風景のような、夢の中の出来事でもあるような、またフロイト的な強迫観念のような持続音とObscured By Beams Of Sorrow(悲しみの光により覆い隠される)が示すような、深い悲しみを伴いつつも、希望の光が包み込むようなアンビエンスが夢幻の世界へと誘う。




profile

Hakobune

Hakobune AKA Takahiro Yorifuji uses layers of guitar to create 
the sonic landscapes. Yorifuji is from a small town in Hyogo, 
Japan and currently resides in Tokyo.
http://hakobunemusic.jp/

Dirk Serries

Since his first releases in the early 80s, uncompromising Belgian artist Dirk Serries has garnered respect with his wilful and specific minimal music and various experiments from and invitations to collaborate with recognised musicians like Steven Wilson, Steve Von Till, Justin Broadrick, Cult Of Luna, Teun Verbruggen, Colin Webster, Andrew Lisle, Rene Aquarius, Dead Neanderthals and Onno Govaert. He has been commisioned to write works for Dutch national television broadcaster VPRO, the Antwerp Zoo as well as architectural festival Biënnale Rotterdam and worked on stage with the Holland Symfonia orchestra. His discography encompasses stylistically diverse releases on labels like Relapse, Projekt, Conspiracy as well as his current creative partner Tonefloat, an outfit with years of experience in vinyl editions for acts like Porcupine Tree, Robert Fripp, Theo Travis and Anja Garbarek. Over the past thirty years, he has toured extensively through Europe and the USA and performed at some of experimental music's major venues and concert spaces, as headliner or in support of Low, Mono, My Bloody Valentine, Jesu and others.  He currently runs to the Tonefloat's New Wave Of Jazz label dedicated to his fascination for free jazz and improvisation.



Hakobune

レイヤーを重ね合わせ、音風景を描く。2007年より活動を開始。
http://hakobunemusic.jp/

Dirk Serries

Dirk Serriesはベルギー出身で、８０年代初頭にデビューし、それ以来妥協のない姿勢で、ミニマルミュージック、実験音楽を続けてきた。Steven Wilson, Steve Von Till, Justin Broadrick, Cult Of Luna、Robert Fripp, Theo Travisといったアーティストとのコラボレーションも発表。また、彼はオランダの国営テレビ放送VPROや、アントワープの動物園に音楽を制作し、舞台音楽も手がけてきました。過去３０年間に渡る活動歴で、多くのアメリカやヨーロッパツアーを敢行し、Low, Mono, My Bloody Valentineといったアーティストのサポートアクトもつとめました。現在はフリージャズと即興のためのレーベルを運営しています。

all music written by Hakobune & Dirk Serries 
mixed by Hakobune
mastered by Dirk Serries 
photograph by Aurélie Scouarnec

Hakobune & Dirk Serries  / The Slow Movement Of Thought Excerpt

Remix of 'A Bevan Rotation' by Bruised Skies, original version appearing on
'Moon Zero' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den238
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/moonzero]

Moon Zero - A Bevan Rotation (Bruised Skies Remix)

from 'Blossoms In Red' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den243
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/ensembleeconomique]

Based in Californian Humboldt County, Brian Pyle wanders the world on his countless travels. Far from being restless, he has his very own Pylesque way of travelling. Much like a Lynchian version of Hemingway, he has an eye for the thin layer between restlessness and relaxation, gloom and serenity. Wherever he goes, he ardently absorbes these nuances, rarefies them and moulds them into a seamless array of glimmering styles, from drone and ambient to shoegaze and post-wave, giving birth to yet another creation of his prolific Ensemble Economique project.
On his by now eleventh album and fourth Denovali release "Blossoms In Red", Pyle combines and perfects elements of his previous output into a cohesive narrative. The opener "From The Train Window, Red Flowers On The Mountain" is a surprisingly scarce ambient piece, which feels like an almost infinitely stretched precious moment of time. Despite being austere, it is warm, sublime and incredibly captivating and after listening to its full 8 minutes, one cannot help but to rewind and replay. Having barely escaped this seductively infinite loop, one encounters the title track "Blossoms In Red" featuring Portland electronic duo Soft Metals. Starting off with a characteristic sluggish programmed beat, one is immediately overpowered by the onset of the towering combination of a warm bassline and a shimmering synth ambience. As the track flows, these elements writhe around each other in a delicately beautiful fashion, absorbing the materialising wailing guitar which almost sounds like an ethereal voice, as well as the occasional melodic and rhythmic accents. The next track sees this guitar return in a rather pure form. "On The Sand", featuring jack-of-all-trades Peter Broderick, is essentially just reduced analogue drums, electric guitar, a simple vibrating bassline and hoarse almost spoken vocals. Slowly and methodically, these constituents form a captivating erotic ritual, much like a beguiling and hypnotic mandala procession of imperturbable blissful individuals on the beach. As proven on numerous occasions, Pyle can easily lead all his trumps in the presence of female lead vocals, and "Blossoms In Red" makes no exception. Indeed, "You, By Candlelight" is easily the best Ensemble Economique track with female vox to date. Pyle manages to embed the vocals just in the right minimal amount of instrumental layers, making the track radiate an elusive tranquility. The fifth and closing track "Nothing Is Perfect" is a classically tinged piano piece with only very little processing and sparse field recording samples. With all pieces of the album, Pyle manages to create tracks which feel like being composed only of two or three layers of sound, that are nevertheless allowed to develop a life cycle which seems incredibly long - track lengths vary from 6:30 to 8:10 - but still feels just right. Thus "Blossoms In Red" is probably Ensemble Economique's most minimalistic album, but at the same time - or maybe just for this reason - his most skilled work.

Un moment suspendu dans le temps

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