The ever so active, but perhaps these days even more active Mathias Delplanque delivers another album here, co-released on his own Bruit Clair label and Cronica Electronica. This is a sort of thematic album, in which Delplanque uses field recordings from transport related areas, such as train stations, harbors, parking lots, transit areas all over France (Nantes, Lille and Dieppe to be precise). These sounds were played at home in various rooms, and then recorded along with sounds from outside. A working method that reminded me a bit of his empty room exploration of ‘Ma Chambre Quand Je N’Y Suis Pas’ (see Vital Weekly 560). There are no doubt all sorts of sound effects at work here, although perhaps mainly in the equalization part of this, this is ambient music pur sang. Music to fill an ambience with music to transform an ambience and to be transformed by an ambience. If you get my drift? Its not easy to say wether this was made when the field recordings were processed, or wether this is the actual result of some live-at-home mixing situation, but the music is quite good. Warm, glitch like drones swim around with all sorts of outdoor sounds leaking through in the mix. A refined combination of field recordings, microsound and electronic music, culminating in ‘Passeport 7 (Nantes)’, a most spacious piece of swarming drones and warm fields. Great one. (FdW)
via Vital Weekly