Zaubertanz

Grinning Cat

Card Nation

Artist: Giuseppe Ielasi
Title: Rhetorical Islands
Cat#: faitiche 35
Release: Mar 1st 2024
Format: LP/DL

First vinyl edition of the album Rhetorical Islands, originally released by Giuseppe Ielasi in 2012 as a limited-edition CD on his Senufo Editions label, with recordings made in 2011 as a commission for l’Audible Festival, Paris.

The album’s ten tracks have neither titles nor accompanying text, standing for themselves as what Ielasi himself has called “isolated sound worlds”. They are nonetheless unparalleled in their plasticity, acoustic events with a rare degree of tangibility. Ielasi evokes physical objects, some of which seem to have been constructed out of paper and cardboard, others based on a mechanics of elastic materials. Of course these objects are hallucinations, and precisely because Ielasi constructs them so masterfully there’s no need for any further information. Here’s to everyone creating their very own sculptures while listening to Rhetorical Islands!

The front and back cover features 0.058, a work on paper by the artists Thomas & Renée Rapedius. They make sculptures whose form and artistic inspiration are defined by their materials. Like Ielasi’s acoustic islands, their impact derives from self-referentiality, resulting in paradoxical objects that embody both a detailed material study and a potential for free association.

Giuseppe Ielasi: 06

…s n…: is a slim suite of popular ballads in the genre of fluctuating sentiment. And how silence can act as an incandescent absence.

Tracklist
Collage: Frank Denyer, Broken Music; Wile E Coyote and The Road Runner In Lickety-Splat; Geir Jenssen, Cho Oyu 8201m Field Recordings From Tibet; Two Cats Murmur Like Avatars of Intimate Exchange
Lee Hazlewood: My Autumn’s Done Come
Collage: Tascam Feedback; Frank Denyer, Broken Music
Patsy Cline: Crazy [Misrembered Pitch Edit]
Collage: Ay-O, Fluxus Song; Tascam Feedback
Doris: Hennessy & Candy Cane
Collage: Ay-O, Fluxus Song; Cackling Witches; downgraded, Chubut province
Doris: half n half Arizona  [Misrembered Pitch Edit]
Collage: Ay-O, Fluxus Song; Cackling Witches; 
DJ Muggs: Shit I’m On Instrumental
Collage: Tascam Feedback; Ay-O, Fluxus Song; Frank Denyer, Broken Music; Abe’s Odysee Menu [Scarborough 1998 Gimme **** Shelter Banjo Kazooie Edit]
Nina Simone: Feelings
Collage: Frank Denyer, Broken Music; Geir Jenssen, Cho Oyu 8201m Field Recordings From Tibet;
Elvis: Love Me
Collage: Tascam Feedback; Ay-O, Fluxus Song; 
Aaron Neville: Tell It Like It Is [Polyphonic Doubt Edit]
Collage: Bernard Gunter, Untitled I/ 92; Ay-O, Fluxus Song; 
Bobby Charles: I Hope

[sic] line III: …s n…

Écouter, c’est toujours un peu agrandir le monde. C’est recueillir des traces, accueillir l’inattendu, tisser des présences. Mais c’est aussi garder la mémoire des instants fugaces de ce qui bruisse, bat, résonne et se transforme.

Le 15 février à 19h, Phaune Radio ouvre encore une fenêtre sur des éclats d’ici et d’ailleurs : des battements d’ailes, des chants vibrants, des souffles et des frémissements, des lignes de forces, des mélodies éphémères et bientôt disparues.

À l’occasion des 20 ans de Sonatura, Grégoire Chauvot et Mélia Roger ont rassemblé ces instants de vie saisis par les membres de l’association. Chaque enregistrement, une empreinte sonore, un fragment de paysage vivant qui, en nous, continue d’évoluer.
Un cadeau inédit qu’ils nous font pour un bel anniversaire.
Alors, tendez l’oreille… et laissez ces mondes sonores vous traverser.

Avec des enregistrements de : Pascal Dhuicq, Olivier Pichard, Noémie Delaloye, Mélia Roger, Grégoire Chauvot, Lê Quan Ninh, Jean-Claude Gallard, Laurent Cros, Jean-Christophe Pratt, Dominique Carcreff, Denis Wagenmann, Colin Hunter, Jean-Baptiste Masson, Antoine Monségur

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Listening is always a way to expand the world a little. It means gathering traces, welcoming the unexpected, weaving presences. But it also means preserving the memory of fleeting moments—of what rustles, beats, resonates, and transforms.

On February 15 at 7 PM, Phaune Radio opens another window onto fragments from near and far: the beating of wings, vibrant songs, breaths and tremors, lines of force, ephemeral melodies soon to vanish.

To celebrate Sonatura’s 20th anniversary, Grégoire Chauvot and Mélia Roger have gathered these moments of life, captured by members of the association. Each recording is a sonic imprint, a fragment of a living landscape that continues to evolve within us.
A unique gift they offer us for a special anniversary.
So, open your ears… and let these soundscapes flow through you.

Featuring recordings by: Pascal Dhuicq, Olivier Pichard, Noémie Delaloye, Mélia Roger, Grégoire Chauvot, Lê Quan Ninh, Jean-Claude Gallard, Laurent Cros, Jean-Christophe Pratt, Dominique Carcreff, Denis Wagenmann, Colin Hunter, Jean-Baptiste Masson, Antoine Monségur

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