Of het nu 1 april was of niet, de veelzijdige kunstenaar Philippe Petit eiste onze aandacht op met zijn eclectische album Closing Our Eyes. Net zoals veel van zijn werk is ook dit album een niet voor de hand liggende verzameling nummers die elektronica en akoestische speelsheid met elkaar vermengen. Ooit journalist, dj, de bezieler van de twee …
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Closing Our Eyes is a series of compositions that invite the listener-spectator to find a place of interiority, a sonic journey that conjures up images and imaginary signs in perpetual change to create the possibility of pushing the imagination further, to express a visual fantasy. This could have been the imaginary soundtrack of a film that …
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Das neue Album “Closing Our Eyes” von Philippe Petit erscheint am 1. April bei Crónica. Es vereint elektronische und akustische Elemente zu einer Serie von Kompositionen, die laut Label dazu anregen sollen, eigene innere Bilder entstehen zu lassen. Petit setzt damit seine Auseinandersetzung mit Klang als viefältiges Ausdrucksmittel fort und entwickelt die Ansätze früherer Arbeiten …
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A new album by Philippe Petit, and they come by quite often these days. “Closing Our Eyes” is a 45-minute exploration of the boundaries between acoustic and electronic music, one of Philippe’s recurrent exercises. The promo sheet we always get with Crónica releases gives a little overview. He started with recontextualising Mahler’s first symphony, ‘Cordophony’, …
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Crónica bringen Mitte Februar eine neue CD von Philippe Petit heraus, auf der der Klangkünstler – inspiriert von Dante Alighieris La Divina Comedia und den Illustrationen von Gustave Doré – “eine symphonische Palette musikalischer Pigmente, bildnerischer Töne und Texturen, die das epische Narrativ mit einer expressionistischen musikalischen Form versöhnen”, wie es beim Label heißt. Petitis …
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A Divine Comedy is a two-disc journey into jarring, shifting, moody, at points decidedly hellish electro-symphonic-come-electro-acoustic sound scaping from French musician, journalists and radio DJ Philippe Petit. The release is themed around/roughly based on the 18th-century poem of the same name by Dante Alighieri. The release comes presented in a mini card gatefold- on its …
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Ah, “A Divine Comedy”! A title as grandiose as the task at hand, and yet Philippe Petit, the ever-ambitious sonic alchemist, dives headlong into the inferno with a flair for the dramatic that would make even Dante blush. This double album is not merely a nod to Alighieri’s epic poem; it’s a full-on, spiraling descent …
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