Patrick duvignacq

André Prats : Harmonica
Samir Laroche : Piano
Patrick Duvignacq : Editing / Mix

across Mississipi (draft)

Alex Burkat - Shower Scene

Chasing storms

Four years after wowing listeners with his surprise debut album, All One, Ferdi Schuster is back with a similarly inspired sequel. Taking his distinctive, freewheeling approach to its predecessor, Playing Life  offers a set of inspired instrumentals full of soft-focus grooves, alluring musical motifs, subtle mood shifts and plenty of intricate musical details. In fact, such is the layered nature of the productions, you’ll still be noticing new things on your fifth or sixth listen.

 Those who know Schuster’s story and previous work for Claremont 56 won’t be at all surprised. Arguably the label’s best-kept secret, Schuster ended up on Paul ‘Mudd’ Murphy’s label in 2017 after speculatively submitting a demo. Murphy was blown away by the quality of the publicity-shy multi-instrumentalist’s work and asked him to work on an album; two years later, All One appeared in stores and the rest, as they say, is history.

 Just as he did on his celebrated debut album, Schuster played every instrument, note, chord and riff on Playing Life, arranging and producing the whole thing at different points between 2020 and 2023. The results are undeniably spellbinding, with the talented artist arguably delivering an even more assured, attractive and entertaining set.

 For proof, check opener ‘Dream Quality’, a sumptuous affair in which immersive pads, jazzy guitars, twinkling keys and smooth bass rise above a dubby, minimalistic beat, the steel pan-infused gentle jog towards the dancefloor that is ‘A Step Further’, and the Balearic ambient jazz masterpiece that is ‘Due’. Or, for that matter, the lapping waves and deep, dubbed-out grooves of ‘Playing Life’, and the starry magnificence of ‘Light Minded’, where Ferdi offers a few nods to the great Pat Metheny over twinkling synths and sparse, spaced-out beat.

Everywhere you look across the album, you’ll find a softly spun, exquisitely executed highlight. There’s ‘Moving Forms’, whose instinctive beat pattern and sun-bright jazz guitars enrich the soul, the marimba-sporting sunset wonder of ‘Universal Dance’, the chunky dub disco shuffle of ‘Pulsing’ and the awe-inspiring brilliance of ‘Vastness’, a suitably star-gazing, effects-laden excursion that provides a fittingly impressive conclusion to an album dripping with emotion-rich sonic gold.

Dream Quality

Emanate (Inxec's Elaborate Mix)

Finistère

Finistere (Extended Mix)

So I decided to get in the holiday spirit and sample some christmas records I have. This is what I recorded before ending the session. Haha, definitely not Christmas music. Thanks for listening. Happy Holidays 🎄✌️🎄

Recorded 12/20/25

Here Comes Santa Claus

03 One

We’re fortunate to have the first play of “Before The Rain”, taken from Mius’ forthcoming album on the mighty Sonar Kollektiv. Although this is Mius’ third long player in as many years, it will be the first appearance that the Hungarian artist has made on the label.

The album itself features appearances from many live musicians, and with “before the Rain” we are treated to the bass playing of Tamas Mezey. The track spans just short of seven minutes and is full to the brim with melody and emotion, finishing in a crescendo of erratic percussion and synths.

Release date: 01/04/2016

Check:
https://soundcloud.com/mius-2
https://soundcloud.com/sonar-kollektiv

First Play: Mius - Before The Rain [Sonar Kollektiv]

Pre-order 'Eternal Something' on LP/CD/DL here: http://phonofile.link/eternal-something

Following the announcement of his new solo debut album 'Eternal Something' due March 24th on Erased Tapes, Daniel Brandt, co-founder of Germany’s electroacoustic ensemble Brandt Brauer Frick, shares the incredible second single from his upcoming album.

"I recorded Chaparral Mesa a year ago while I was involved in a recording session for another album in Malibu. We had rented a very beautiful place overlooking hills and the sea and we had a nice basic setup to record in there with a few guitars and a moog synth. I started recording a lot of guitars on top of each other and somehow the song arranged itself. I didn’t really touch it and just went along with naturally had to happen within the song. Later I added the second part, the drumheavy one. This one was based on a session I once had with my friend Bryan Philips from Chile when I was visting him in La Serena. I took the basics from that session and added a lot of new drums later on when I was at a proper studio and then added that part to the new song. In the end Chaparral Mesa was the most quickly made song on the album but has also become the longest." – Daniel Brandt

Brandt also joins The xx at their sold out show at O2 Academy Brixton on March 14th for a support DJ set. Prior to that he will be taking part in Classic Album Sunday's ‘Meet The Composer’ event on March 13th, which takes place at the Erased Tapes Sound Gallery.

What started off as a more simplistic idea soon evolved into something a lot more complex as the London and Berlin based music producer travelled across the world, experimenting with various other artists and different instruments. From his father’s cabin based in the German countryside with access to nothing but cymbals, to being surrounded by guitars in Joshua Tree, his unexpected journey soon progressed into what became his first solo album. 

Daniel played nearly all instruments himself with the only exception being fellow musicians Florian Juncker on trombone, Manu Delago on hang drum and Andreas Voss on cello. Using his Berlin studio as his main base for recording, Brandt created an album that encapsulates the idea that despite setting out with a particular creative vision, external influences and environments will always shift the process, and create an Eternal Something.

Words from Daniel, January 2017:

“The initial idea was to make a cymbal album. I wanted to surround myself with all types of cymbals. I locked myself into my father’s cabin in the woods for three days. That was the moment I realised it was not possible for me to make an album just with cymbals because other ideas and instruments imposed themselves on me. I had a clear sense of what I wanted to do now. The intention was to let the songs evolve by themselves and not edit too much, keep it raw and have an explosion-like energy to them. I wanted to create a different sound, songs that build up like dance tunes but don't feel like club music at all. Travelling around in California for two months gave me the possibility to deeply get into this concept outside my normal environment. Robert Raths, who served as a great motivator throughout the whole process (I guess he had listened to the record more than I ever had) came up with the perfect order for the songs. This record is about failing to make the original plan happen, but then the discovery of something I couldn't even think of before.”

Eternal Something

Daniel Brandt - Chaparral Mesa

Get on Vinyl :https://qrates.com/artists/Frenic/items/14135 
Download:  https://frenic.bandcamp.com/album/initiation-monomyth-part-2
Art work by Sugahtank  www.behance.net/SUGAHTANK

The hero's journey continues. Having left behind your mundane reality in Monomyth: Separation. ‘Initiation’ will take you deep into the unknown, the underworld, the intangible. 

Part 2 of the Monomyth trilogy will take you on a road of trials. This is a favorite phase of the myth- adventure. 

Frenic has created a concept album in the Trip Hop tradition taking influence from a wide selection of source material that includes Hip Hop, Dub, Soul, Funk and Folk. This has all been crafted together using deep beats, scratches, huge dark reverbs and saturated lo fi sounds. 

Based on the book “A Hero with a Thousand Faces”. By Joseph Campbell the trilogy seeks to engage with the concept that all stories have one common theme and by understanding this your own hero's journey can be enlightened. 

“Whether we listen with aloof amusement to the dreamlike mumbo jumbo of some red-eyed witch doctor of the Congo, or read with cultivated rapture thin translations from the sonnets of the mystic Lao-tse; now and again crack the hard nutshell of an argument of Aquinas, or catch suddenly the shining meaning of a bizarre Eskimo fairy tale: it will be always the one, shape-shifting yet marvelously constant story that we find, together with a challengingly persistent suggestion of more remaining to be experienced than will ever be known or told.”(Joseph Campbell)

Take Me Down

Vocals : Maryline Fauquier 
Pierre Bats : Flute 
Said Daou : Viola Da Gamba 
Luc Blanchot : Cello
Patrick Duvignacq : Composition / Piano / Editing

For Anna

Car Number 27/Mr. Alpo

Car Number 27/Mr. Alpo (Tim Deluxe Remix)

Favignana

Insight

Headlong rush (draft)

Patrick Duvignacq : Composition, mix, editing 
Julian Babou : Bass
Samir Laroche : piano , synth 
Charlie Chance: vocals
Mr. Y : Guitar
Bastien Andrieu: piano, synth 
Lukas Staratzky : Guitar
Louis Navarro : Double Bass
Felix Robin : Vibraphone, Balafon
Abdeljalil Aït Jimhi : Ribab, Lotar, Banjo 
Raphael Mateu : Trumpet, horns 
Etienne Juan Gesta : Saxophone
Nicolas Pujos : Saxophone 

We are now searching for a label. 

Hope you like our work

pduvignacq@hotmail.com
+49 162 1952 743

Chasing storms

Patrick Duvignacq

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