Experimental

Lend Me Your Radio - May 17

Une tonne de nouveautés s'offre à cette liste de lecture hebdomadaire remplie de parutions toutes fraîches à  se mettre dans les oreilles. Péraparez-vous à un voyage musical électronique des plus éclectiques. Bonne écoute ! www.boulimiquedemusique.net

Nouveautés | 19 mai 2017

Richard Chartier

Atmos

from the free Ambient Blog digital anniversary compilation. http://www.ambientblog.net/blog/2015-10-21/anniversary-collection/ 

Reference Point #1 by PINKCOURTESYPHONE

We're super happy to announce the inaugural EP on our new ambient sub label, Silver Lake, courtesy of Tokyo based artist, Aquarium. Having released an eye catching debut 12” on Manchester label Natural Sciences last year, Aquarium recently followed up with an equally impressive tape release on London based Coastal Haze. His next effort, "Luxury Water Jewels", is a jaw dropping excursion into textural ambience and deep electronica.

The EP is a daydream infused memory of summer, so says Akira - 

Opening track ‘Floating’ is the foreword - diving in and out of water, there is the essence throughout of being the avatar in your very own computer game. Lush deep pools of water and a surrounding green jungle is the setting for your journey. The piano chords strike the most eerie of melancholic shivers and introduce the undeniable Japanese theme of  'mono no aware' - a sensibility which goes on to haunt the whole of the A side.

‘Swimming’brings about transient, human textures – coming up for air we breathe and then dive deep through the ocean. Much like DIY mixtapes and epic albums, this feels like a gentle interval, a place outside of space and time, hinting subtly at what is to come.

‘Planet Aquarium (outro)’ closes out the A side like some magical early 90’s vine - video games, apple mac and cosmic 8-bit dreams… A strong nod to Air’s Alone In Kyoto and Squarepusher’s masterpiece, Tommib. This is Scarlett Johansson gazing out across the blinking lights of Tokyo’s midnight skyline. 

On the B, ‘Sandalwood’ is the moment after a dreamy sleep, we open our eyes for the first time and see clearly. Underpinning this track the 4x4 kick and deep sub give slo-mo club sensibilities – this wouldn’t be out of place in DJ Sprinkles record bag, gently building those early floors. 

Closing things out, ‘Water and Sunshine’ continues this theme and closes the story arc. Introducing percussive elements to those never-ending pads we are reminded of the deep oceans of ‘Swimming’, yet with a twist of club practicality. This one is shifting gears, set transitioning material. Just as well suited to opening a dark floor or an early morning terrace as it is for those hazy headphone moments…

BUY 10"

SL001 (Silver Lake) | Aquarium - Luxury Water Jewels

I play veena (a kind of big and ancient sacred sitar)  in my recent live set (a nap concert) upon this track .
It was made with a wonderful synth (an Alesis Micron) Patrick Wicklacz lend me.

Refractions

Footstep

from 'Talk the Pleasure Out of It"

'Talk The Pleasure Out Of It' is the new release from minimalist composer Richard Chartier’s Pinkcourtesyphone alias. Building on his previous records, the movements cut across this 10" blend live electronic and processed experiments resulting in a darker, more rhythmic voyage of texture and form. Stunning opener 'Stars Fell (Closet Mix)' sets the atmosphere with an enthralling low fidelity loop with emotive string swells and surging crackle. 'Every Last Lightbulb' is next up with oscillating loops and spiralling pulses, while 'Seemingly Endless Credits For Stars Fell' introduces driving rhythms around mesmeric synth clusters. 'A Message' brings the journey to an end in an introspective mood with thought provoking dialogue and flickering drone washes. 'Talk The Pleasure Out Of It' is a classic progression of ambient minimalism. Turn the lights out, lie down and immerse yourself. Stunning atmospherics.

available as a very limited edition lathe cut 10" vinyl record on CHAMPION VERSION, UK

Talk The Pleasure Out Of It

Stars Fell (Closet Mix) by PINKCOURTESYPHONE

LINELEH I (1hour 13minutes)

LINELEH is a continuing series of works by sound artists ELEH and Richard Chartier. Part one was created, modifed, and refined over the course of a year between 2015 and 2016. 

This work focuses on the artists’ long-shared shared interest in micro-nuances and is intended for quiet amplification or headphone listening. 

LINELEH II (2hours 8minutes) also available

LINELEH I

LINELEH I (excerpt) by Eleh + Richard Chartier

taken from the forthcoming album "Downfall"

Downfall

Midira Shop

Tegh - Downfall III

Important Records presents Omminggg and Schlomminggg, the second release by continuous music pioneer Charlemagne Palestine and Grumbling Fur consisting of London based multi-disciplinary artists Daniel O'Sullivan and Alexander Tucker; the Time Machine Orchestra being the extended drone arm of Tucker and O'Sullivan's experimental avant-pop conception. This double LP captures a performance of the trio at Copenhagen's illustrious Jazzhouse in 2016. The pin-drop acoustic clarity of the venue providing an ideal setting for this mesmeric recital of eternal music. 

The signature strumming of Palestine's piano augmented by Tucker and O'Sullivan's earthware electronics and processed strings create seamless sonic ripples in a constant state of unfolding. This is perhaps the most demonstrative document of Palestine's powerful vocal delivery - an alien hybrid of sacred music drawing deep from the well of the cantorial synagogue and Hindustani classical styles in a bid to channel inter-dimensional beings from ancient cultures. In some respects this could be thought of as Charlemagne in dub as Grumbling Fur carefully twist and mangle their palette of electrified harp, viola, bowed mandolin, percussion, tapes and voice transformers through chains of loopers resulting in a slowly dilating vapour.

Mixed at O'Sullivan's Dream Lion Studio with gatefold sleeve art by Alexander Tucker and a Grumbling Fur redux/remodel constituting side four, this is a unique document of portal opening music that defies time and space.


Performed by Charlemagne Palestine, Alexander Tucker and Daniel O'Sullivan
Sides 1-3 Recorded at Jazzhouse, Copenhagen, November 28th 2015
Side 4 GFTMO Redux
Assembled and mixed by Grumbling Fur
Cut by Matt Colton, Alchemy Mastering, London
Cover art by Alexander Tucker
Inside art by Daniel O'Sullivan

Thanks and praise to Andreas Korsgaard Rasmussen, Klaus Hedegård Nielsen, Mark Titchner, Zoe Miller and Aude Stoclet

Charlemagne Palestine & Grumbling Fur Time Machine Orchestra - Excerpt - 2LP available May 2017

LOTR014 A1. BUNKR - Cloud Chaser

Olan Mill - Cavade Morlem CD re-printed with limited number of copies (ltd. 100) and expansed with 6 digital bonus tracks from Pleq, Isnaj Dui, Antonymes, Good Weather For An Airstrike, A:B, GRIP TIGHT. Don't miss it!

https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/cavade-morlem

Buy CD / DL

Olan Mill - Chort - (conducted By Antonymes)

The Italian trio's Day One EP is up first. Due out digitally on March 24th (a vinyl release follows on April 7th) it comprises four tracks the label says feature a "strong analog sound." It's been a year since their last release 2016's Magma on Ellum Audio. Obscura takes its name from a series of parties Agents Of Time have been throwing for the past three years

Connect with Agents Of Time:

Website: http://www.agentsoftime.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/AgentsOfTime
ResidentAdvisor: http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/agentsoftime
SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/agents-of-time

Day One

Beatport

B1 Agents Of Time - Rebellion (Original Mix)

The project has been produced through a framework of Artist-in-Residence program at Hangar in Barcelona, Spain. Inspired by location, experience and memory and motivated by the inversion of the traditional roles of photography and sound in the media and art worlds, Soundreaming emphasizes the importance of the acoustic environment on our memory and perception of place. The Soundreaming album contains a selection of compositions from the audio-visual project with the same title. In the project soundscapes replace photography as the dominant documentary element at the core of the artistic practice. The visual representation is directly inspired by the audio documentation of the locations featured in the archive. Moreover, this technique allows for the transparency of environmental sound to shape the audience’s perception of the artwork and in turn, allows the visual component of the composition more freedom to express itself. More information at: http://soundreaming.org 

To help the memory, we usually focus on the things that make sound – a guitar, a telephone, a motor vehicle, whatever – rather than sounds themselves. And the things that make sound usually give sounds their name. In the West we generally have no words that name sounds specifically. There is no word for the sound made by a guitar or a telephone or a motor vehicle, so we have to refer to the object that produced the sound to give the sound a name. And, because of this, people do not talk about sounds, they talk about objects that make sounds; they talk about ‘things’ and, consequently, sounds cease to be sounds and they become things. - Robert Worby / composer & sound artist / BBC

Jacek Doroszenko - HDD Ensemble

Gareth Hardwick - Four Guitars (Demo)

catalogue number: GRAPHICAL 004
release date: 20 June 2017

format: 12" LP / digital
edition of 300

Mark Templeton: Gentle Heart excerpts

from the upcoming album 'Removed' on Ash International, UK on May 19, 2017.


In 2000, The Wire wrote of Chartier’s work: “it’s worth stretching the ears in search of Chartier’s sequences of exquisitely sculpted sonic events, as gorgeous detail bodies forth out of the shadows”… the same holds true today.

Formed over the course of 5 years, Removed was a process of removal/erasure.
Only trace elements appear from what was. Their interactions merely a ghost of a composition — subtle echoes across the sound spectrum. A glacially paced progression of discreet relational sonic events and flows.

Inspired in part by the rigorous line drawings of American visual artist Linn Meyers, whose 2011 untitled drawing graces the cover, Removed draws the listener in to follow patterns. Meyers often creates large scale on-site works that transform a space into durational installations of seemingly endless lines. Seen from a distance these lines appear as almost natural ripples in a wall surface, but deeper, upon closer inspection, the delicate echoes and fluctuations of the artist’s hand arise from the density of details.

Chartier’s precise sound compositions work in a similar manner. Austere and shimmering, the two compositions of Removed beg for careful listening on headphones. Or let these 2 compositions play quietly amplified across your space. Either way, a physically captivating dimensional experience.

Removed is a continuing reflection on major aesthetic elements of Chartier’s artistic language as it has evolved through the years. This is Chartier’s first new solo studio album since 2013’s field recording exploration Interior Field  and 2012’s purely digital Recurrence, both released on LINE, US.

Removed 1 (excerpt)

I’m very happy to announce a new collaboration with Alessandro Cortini, a master of electronic noise and synth player in Nine Inch Nails. I’m a huge fan of Alessandro’s work and I’m proud to share this music with you, something we’ve been working on for the past few months. An extremely limited white-label 7” titled Sun Draw Water is available at Mount Analog in LA, Phonica in London and through the Phantasy web shop: https://fanlink.to/DAACSDW

Buy 7"

Daniel Avery + Alessandro Cortini - Sun

from: Indelicate Slices
Room40, Australia / CD + digital / November 2017
http://www.pinkcourtesyphone.com/indelicate-slices/

All is lost, all is lost. Or is it?

A poignant question from Pinkcourtesyphone. A haunting strain. A coat of gloss smeared.

A scene recalled, a fond memory, a terrible lie in this new dark age of love.

Suspended in that lush, lonely feeling, Pinkcourtesyphone implores you to hang breathless on the line, above the chandeliers in shimmering stasis that belie those desperate, shadowy passions underneath.

A creak, a glance. nothing is for certain anymore. that sentimental something echoed across corridors, valleys, crevices, and it was never true. that redundant physicality kept it suspended in the lens-trapped hearts of countless thousands.

A limited edition. seven excellent examples of negative mood music. Pinkcourtesyphone’s artistry is all lustrous sounds. new meaning and beauty for…oh, you don’t even want to know. The answer is buried under centuries of suffocatingly sweet tonalities we created. Just like romance, the mighty do fall with indelicate slices.

Is it dark outside already…?

Indelicate Slices

Date of Loss by PINKCOURTESYPHONE

Russell Haswell - Ant Colony Featuring Eurofighter Typhoon F2 Flyby
Bruce Gilbert - Oblivio Agitatum
Front 242 - This World Must Be Destroyed
Emptyset - Medium
Andy Stott - We Stay Together
Miles - Flawed
Mika Vainio - It's a Muthang
Emptyset - Monad
Powell - 09
Mark Fell & Peter Rehberg - Zikir
Jeff Mills - Rich
Byetone - Opal
Ancient Methods - Third Method
Heiroglyphic Being - 2 Bath in the Black Sun
Ancient Methods - Second Method
Sleeparchive - Ronan Point
Vainio, Vaisanen, Vega - Incredible Criminals
Emptyset - Function (Roly Porter remix)


Medium” arrives as the first non-studio based production by emptyset, recorded on location in the remote Woodchester Mansion in Gloucestershire UK. The collection of tracks explores the duo’s preoccupations with the elemental properties of sound and bare rhythmic structures and overlays it onto the textural possibilities
of space and material. The project marks their first act of adapting their analogue
based studio system into an architectural intervention, pushing extreme bass and
feedback into the irregular spaces of the unfinished building. The rural mansion, which remains an incomplete remnant of the gothic revival and a place studied by
both architectural researchers and psychic investigators, provides a rich source of
texture as the sparse palette of sine waves and noise is adorned with the intricate details of the space. Medium emerges as an act of translation remodeling the
house through sonic impulses into a state of audio, a fluid transformative gesture
and a process mirroring the sonar impulses of the bats residing within
Woodchester's rooftop sanctuary.


￼￼The project, supported by the Woodchester Mansion Trust, was provided technical support by the renowned Bristol based sound engineer Mat Sampson who managed the array of vintage microphones and preamps distributed within the building along with the central monophonic sound system.

“Medium” will be released March 19th, 2012 on Subtext Recordings based at Multiverse in Bristol. It follows on from emptyset's second LP Demiurge, Roly Porter's landmark Aftertime album and a live recording by Paul Jebanasam.

Emptyset Mix 2012

New album of collaboration : Baza Guru Rimpoche, Arhat & Ujjaya. When bhutanese buddhist ritual meet ambient music. Baza Guru Rimpoche is one of the prominent spiritual figure of Bhutan.  After meeting him in 2016 on the day of Bhutan at the great Paris pagoda, we have the blessing to record him in studio.A part of the price of the album will go to the building of a Stupa in France. That give good karma to each buyer.
The album is available in Paris at the Maison du Bhoutan (40 rue Olivier Metra 20°), La Galerie du Toit du Monde (6 rue Visconti 6°) or at the Edition Buissière.To order the cd at the association Ambient Wave contact us at Ambient Waves com@ambientwaves.org

Baza Guru Rimpoche - Trailer

mateis e. aqir - far away

The original version of 'Romantic Threat' from the album 2017 Pinkcourtesyphone album 'Indelicate Slices' (room40, Australia), plus two unreleased "B-sides" for your hazy listening. a surprise BANDCAMP EXCLUSIVE! 

This original version was deemed 'too romantic and positive' for full inclusion on the album so it was reworked and edited down to 2:57 of Negative Mood Music from Los Angeles. Now with over 10 extra minutes of romance.

released June 18, 2018 

formed and recorded by Pinkcourtesyphone / Richard Chartier, mid 2017-2018. 

Richard Chartier is published by Touch Music/Fairwood Music Ltd

Romantic Threat EP

Romantic Threat (original & overextended)by PINKCOURTESYPHONE

"Flight to Omega" is inspired by the book "The Omega project" by Kenneth Ring which is the most complete survey about near death experience.
The front string instrument is a valiha, a malagasy instrument which embodies the wisdom of the ancient and the longevity.

Unreleased

Flight to Omega

Richard Chartier (b.1971) is a Los Angeles based artist, considered one of the key figures in minimalist sound art. Chartier’s works explore the inter-relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, perception, and the act of listening itself. Chartier’'s sound works/installations have been presented in galleries and museums internationally and he has performed his work live across Europe, Japan, Australia, and North America at digital art/electronic music festivals and exhibits. In 2000 he formed the recording label LINE and has since curated its continuing documentation of compositional and installation work by international sound artists/composers exploring the aesthetics of contemporary and digital minimalism.

He is also Pinkcourtesyphone.