We met Franck Vigroux for the first time years ago at Berlin's Berghain during a soundcheck. At that time he performed with Mika Vainio, with whom Vigroux often worked together. 

The first track on »Ballades sur lac gelé« dates back to that time. It was created under the impression of this collaboration and friendship with Mika Vainio. This album is dedicated to him. 

Vainio's oeuvre is also significant in connection with the history of raster, so it was only logical and our wish to release this album by Franck Vigroux. 

With the beginning of the corona pandemic, Franck Vigroux took up this early material again, he continued to formulate it and completed the present album »Ballades sur lac gelé«. The title already defines the theme of the ballad, a "song/poem with very minimal structures" (quote Vigroux). 

"Ballade" is also a play on words with the French word "balade", in this sense a ramble, a ramble over a frozen lake. The reduced, cool structures reflect this. But at the same time, under the surface, the (often distorted) sound carpets steadily increase to immense power. Like ice that grows and tectonic forces that have to erupt, glacier-like.

Vigroux is very skilled at creating music in this minimalist setting. The intertwining of very few musical elements creates a kind of soundtrack that is multi-layered and at the same time universally intelligible. 

»Ballades sur lac gelé« will be released on June 26th, 2020 as a digital pre-release exclusively on our sites. The physical formats, i.e. CD and vinyl, can be pre-ordered. The official worldwide release date will be the 30th of October 2020.

Ballades sur lac gelé

Franck Vigroux »Two« taken from »Ballades sur lac gelé«

NO FUTURE
NO PRESENT
NO PAST
NO MORALS
NO RULES
NO FASCISTS

- "Schegge di Vento"  [DR-090]
- "Freddo razionale" [DR-036]
- "Punto e Forma" [DR-041]

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I am a researcher and producer of sound spaces ranging from acousmatic to post industrial sounds.
The approach to sound comes from the desire to discover in a completely natural way the vast sound world of which we are all part. The sound project itself constitutes in giving sounds to any existing sound spaces. Each place has its own sound and noise to give society a new way of imagining sound environments and spaces; The goal is to give the world a completely new sound alphabet, an acoustic image to the world.
Formulate proposals, conceive the processes of orchestration of relationships to prepare empirical environments. Music as space, space as environment, environment as event, event is life.

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