{"id":11433,"date":"2024-06-04T10:39:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T09:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11433"},"modified":"2024-06-04T10:39:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T09:39:28","slug":"bruno-duplants-ecouter-les-fantomes-reviewed-by-vital-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11433","title":{"rendered":"Bruno Duplant\u2019s \u201c\u00c9couter les fant\u200b\u00f4\u200bmes\u201c reviewed by Vital Weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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When I sometimes write that people like Bruno Duplant (or Celer or Machinefabriek) appear almost every week in Vital Weekly, I am doing this in a loving and joking way. I like their music, and there\u2019s an abundance out there, so what\u2019s not to enjoy? I say this fully, realising I\u2019m not the one buying all this work. My \u2018difficulty\u2019 is finding different approaches to writing about their music. That\u2019s not to say their work is the same all the time, even when the devil is in the details. Duplant\u2019s work, so he claims, is intended to be narrative and fictional, in the same way he approaches his photography, often used as covers on his releases. Other keywords are \u2018phantasmagorical\u2019, \u2018ancestral\u2019 and \u2018secret universe\u2019, or \u2018how to make the music a bit mysterious\u2019. He uses organ, double bass, percussion, electronics and field recordings. In some way, I am unsure how (analogue treatment? digital? combination of both?), and he finds a minor different approach every time. In listening to the ghosts, as the translation of his new CD could read, I think Duplant chooses a more fragmented approach to his sounds. They appear like ghosts in the wind and mist, popping out of the shadows and disappearing simultaneously. It\u2019s tough to recognise any of the instruments, not because they have been cut to short length, but because they have been rendered and processed in such a way that they don\u2019t sound like a double bass or organ or percussion; they are residue\u2019s of that, ghostly appearances, if you will. Significantly, when suddenly, voices drop in. As with many of his releases, there are two pieces, almost 23 minutes each (intended for a cassette release? I am guessing here), and both are similar approaches in composition and processing techniques. It\u2019s an album in two parts rather than two pieces. In a way, it\u2019s all very electronic music, ando dipping into the world of modern composition, but with that additional weirdness. It\u2019s another excellent album! (FdW)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When I sometimes write that people like Bruno Duplant (or Celer or Machinefabriek) appear almost every week in Vital Weekly, I am doing this in a loving and joking way. I like their music, and there\u2019s an abundance out there, so what\u2019s not to enjoy? I say this fully, realising I\u2019m not the one buying … <\/p>\n

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