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| | | 12k (usa) #12k 1036 cd sébastien roux “songs” compact disc - the prepared piano song
- the metallophone song no.1
- the classical guitar song
- the cello song
- the metallophone song no.2
- the harp and contrabass song
- the guitar and drums song
| | click the play button to hear an excerpt of "the guitar and drums song" |
| in the running for one of my records of the year (2006) is this set by my friend sébastien roux. there are very few people who have found musically interesting ways of keeping the musique concrète traditions of yore alive in the digital age, yet séb has done so with apparent ease, yielding this weightless set of electro-acoustic etudes for scattered instrumentation and in-depth computer processing.
at times spare, others gratifyingly complex in its arrangements, songs is, for me, something of a benchmark in this post-ina-grm/fennesz landscape. i give it my highest recommendation... |
| | songs is the much-anticipated follow-up to parisian sound designer and musician sébastien roux’s beautiful cd pillow (apestaartje, 2004). the simple title of songs hides a deep work that roux states is based in mathematics, symmetry (and assymetry) and organized randomness. songs is a skillfully and beautifully rendered album of gentle and sometimes not-so-gentle acoustic instruments and melodic granular clouds. each song is titled simply by the instruments that make it, thus stressing the process involved in their production. from the ubiquitous guitars, piano, and drums to the more exotic metallophone, harp and contrabass, roux combines these acoustic instruments with digital sounds and makes a point to keep the focus on the instruments themselves, allowing for their subtleties and idiosyncrasies to come to the forefront.
roux’s music is personal and multi-faceted; from warm and drowsy ambient tones to digital fests of errors and erratic rhythms to a more song-structured approach hinting at a distant relative of submereged pop music. his influences include musique concrete, folk songs, and electronic music and his work at ircam in paris wraps his ecclectic tastes into an expertly produced work of digital sound that does not rely on one particular sound or motif but rather highlights a breadth of processes and unique sonic juxtaposititons. |
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