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Description: A cut from John-Robin's eery yet enveloping new album, 'Demonstrations'.

Demonstrations

JAMESTOWN, OLD WALL

Positive Energy

Infinite Stillness is a journey inward.
A collection of pure, instrumental drone, ambient pieces, no vocals, no rhythm, no distractions. Just space. Just breath. Just presence.
This album is created for deep rest, meditation, yoga, breathwork, ceremonial settings, and psychedelic or plant-medicine journeys.
Each track unfolds like a slow-moving landscape, offering warmth, grounding, and a sense of timeless stillness.
Where other music pulls you forward, Infinite Stillness allows you to sink, gently, safely, fully.
The textures open the body but stay minimal and monotone so the nervous system can soften, unwind, and let go.

Return to Silence

GUNCLASHRIDDIM FACE A

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«

@johnrobinbold
www.johnrobinbold.com

Earlier this year, John-Robin Bold released his eponymous debut album on the legendary and recently reactivated label Mille Plateaux. He now introduces us to his Demonstrations: four pieces that share a common compositional process exponentiating the discrepancies between sacred and pop music from four different perspectives. Both of these unique forms of music encompass their own excesses and subtleties into smooth lines in radical contrast with each other. Demonstrations presents a finely tuned focus on profoundly different yet eerily similar aesthetics.

The first stepping-stone of this work was the development of a unique compositional system during the summer of 2015. John-Robin Bold applied a reverb effect to a sacred polyphonic piece of the Renaissance. The process was then re-applied to the resulting recording and repeated over and over again. It created derivatives that were progressively drifting further and further away from the original sound that John-Robin Bold used to compose « I ». These derivatives were then selected, cut and pasted together to form a collage of perspectives; not unlike the methods used in cinema to mold a wider picture. This modus operandi was then expanded upon as it was either progressively refined or deconstructed with each piece over the course of five years.

The main advantage here is that such an operation generates a great range of outcomes when used on multiple different variables. John-Robin Bold has also processed various pieces from our contemporary hedonistic consumerist pop culture following this method. As a result, the artist showcases the non-intuitive similarities of two distinct eras with their own zeitgeists. The two aesthetics embody the respective belief systems of their time, with one aspiring to comprehend eternity while the other is focused on experiencing the present moment. Precisely for this reason however, Bold attempts to distill a universalism within these two sources that goes beyond critiquing their function for clerical or capitalist power.

The use of samples as signifiers enables the artist to adopt a specific historical frame, deliberately lodged amidst the development of western culture. However this framework does not follow any traditional bourgeois views of musical history: “I want my music to convey a sense of elevation, something with a universal potential. However, this seems impossible because today anything is subjected to a relativism of taste. I neither believe that universality in music can occur by returning to some kind of ancient ‘roots’, nor by orientating towards technological progress. Therefore, my music tries to set the scene for its own appearance, to write its own history.”
Demonstrations carries the visions and dreams of what can be created from such a novel vantage point.

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John-Robin Bold - III

sublabel of mindcolormusic, devoted to breaks oriented idm and jungle

bandcamp exclusive, sold out!

limited edition of 77 copies on recycled vinyl with 30x30 insert, available strictly on bandcamp, no digital.

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A cut from John-Robin's eery yet enveloping new album, 'Demonstrations'.

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Feu Au Lac V​/​A Mixed by Mikro

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From DT Camp to Paturia Festival, they keep bumping into each other in front or behind the dj booth. Queens Joanna OJ (FR) and NVST (CH) are back together again for this Tour de Trance radioshow and they are paying a snappy tribute to storming dancefloors.

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