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The new Album of Beach Ready is now available at Snow in Water Records, exploring urgent ambient as no-one else! A first serie of 50 cassettes are printed, with three exclusive tracks and a great O-Card design!

Beach Ready - Allucinate (with Boe Huntress)

Ride Your Horses represents the third collaboration between guitarist/writer/producer/arranger Christopher Cordoba (Beach Ready) and acclaimed singer Boe Huntress. The two met whilst both playing at a David Bowie tribute concert at London's renowned Union Chapel theatre where Boe was the artist in residence. Cordoba has had a long studio and touring career as one half of Jack Adaptor/Vibrations of The Sun with Paul Frederick of early 90's UK indie heroes The Family Cat. Cordoba has also worked with Claudia Brucken, Billy Mackenzie, Robert Wyatt and producer Phil Vinall (Radiohead/Placebo/Auteurs). In recent years Cordoba has specialised in producing emotive soundscapes/instrumentals and soundtracks as Beach Ready whilst working with brothers James (Grace Jones) and David (OMD) Watson.
Ride Your Horses is an uplifting and direct call to arms to empower individuals, wrapped up in a sweeping two and half minute pop song.
The track features an elegiac and elegant vocal from Huntress which merges wonderfully with Cordoba's production. The track was produced by Cordoba from Huntress sending him the vocal stem, so can be considered a re-working or re-imaging of Huntress's original song. 
The end result is two talented artists coming together to produce a unique, intelligent and uplifting work of pop art that will bear repeated listens and has already been played on UK radio. You should be hearing it everywhere this Summer.




Beach Ready - Ride Your Horses (with Boe Huntress)

From the 1st Album of Seuil Optique, "Sparks" (Snow in Water Records, 2019).

Ce duo, composé de Sig Valax et Nicolas Tourney, propose une expérience singulière d'écoute musicale dans le noir.
Plongeant scène et public dans une obscurité intégrale, Seuil Optique élabore des transmissions électroniques éthérées, fabrique des drones qui oscillent entre bruitisme et voyage cinématique, sublime ces objets du quotidien que nos habitudes avaient rendu inaudibles. En bousculant les frontières entre l’écoute, la manipulation aveugle des machines et l'expérience immersive proposée au public, les deux musiciens recherchent de nouvelles pistes sonores. Cette recherche est aussi une exploration, en dialogue permanent avec les musicalités hybrides et la pratique d'instruments rares. Sur scène, ils utilisent des stratégies d'improvisation volontairement "ouvertes", et s'autorisent après-coup des chemins différés dans la création radiophonique.
Seuil Optique sort son premier EP (Still Crossing) chez Snow in Water Records en juin 2019.

This duo, composed of Sig Valax and Nicolas Tourney, offers a singular experience of listening to music in the dark.
Plunging stage and public in complete darkness, Seuil Optique elaborates ethereal electronic transmissions, manufactures drones which oscillate between noise and kinematic voyage, sublimates those objects of the daily life that our habits had made inaudible. By jostling the boundaries between listening, the blind manipulation of machines and the immersive experience offered to the public, the two musicians seek new sound tracks. This research is also an exploration, in permanent dialogue with hybrid musicalities and the practice of rare instruments. On stage, they use improvisation strategies voluntarily "open", and allow themselves after-the-fact paths in radio creation.
Seuil Optique released its first EP (Still Crossing) at Snow in Water Records in June 2019.

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From the 3rd Album of Nonsound : "Die Ersten Klänge"
(Snow in Water Records, release date : jan. 2020)

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Seuil Optique, duo of Sig Valax and Nicolas Tourney, originally dedicated themselves to musical practice in complete darkness, where each sound was generated without any visual aid. This method allowed the duo to develop an acute sensitivity to the acoustic properties of their instruments and the surrounding space. Seuil Optique is interested in the physical properties of sound, intuitively manipulates machines, and creates immersive sound environments. The two musicians invite the audience to active listening and total immersion. Their philosophy is based on the idea that music is not just to be heard, but to be experienced as a complete sensory experience.
Seuil Optique builds frescoes where electronic impulses, slow gestures and acoustic responses intersect: each of their albums, tells the story of an eyeless camera, of a journey beyond the screen. An ephemeral present filled with the memory of this interior film that everyone projects on their eyelids in the evening.

https://seuiloptique.bandcamp.com/
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