- NETHERWORLD – KALL: THE ABYSS WHERE DREAMS FALL -
- cd. limited to 441 copies.
- mastered by John Sellekaers [Metarc]
- design by Christian Salette
- released in June 2007.
Always concerned with pushing even further its explorations on the side of ‘’drone’’ drifts, angleREC adds to its parallel series, that is the MONDES ELLIPTIQUES label, a new release in the form of the first official CD production of Italian project NETHERWORLD. This CD has the rather evocative title of ''KALL - The Abyss Where Dreams Fall''. Alessandro Tedeschi’s project previously gained a fair share of attention with CDR or mini-CDR releases on fine labels such as UMBRA, GEARS OF SAND, TAALEM/KOKESHIDISK! Alessandro also runs the GLACIAL MOVEMENTS label, which gave us, in 2006, the acclaimed CRYOSPHERE compilation. In a tradition that is anchored, at the same time, in avant-garde, ritual soundz and dark-ambient, with a typically Italian touch, NETHERWORLD gives a peculiarly and elegantly organic and palpable feel to sounds that, in the hands of others, would maybe fall flat …and it is as if the sound universe conjured by the magic of NETHERWORLD was strangely…how could one say? OCCUPIED. Each moment, eac h twist and turn of this sound adventure bears infinite richness and elasticity, at all times …those are rather ‘busy’ sound layers but each of the elements has sufficient breathing space and can differentiate itself from the other surrounding components. This antagonism represents one of NETHERWORLD’s greatest strengths. Another noteworthy antagonism: this tendency to propose us ambiences that are excessively introspective, subdued, withdrawn into themselves, but which, at the same time, expand, subtly dilate to occupy an incommensurable space. Upon the first notes (or pulses??) of the opening track, ‘’KALL’’, this infinite abyss, envelops us and our dreams sink, dissolve, reinvent themselves…The sound propositions found on’’KALL’’ have enough movement and density to please the ones fond of depth in their music, but the overall ‘purified’ feel will please the most discerning purist. For the occasion, MONDES ELLIPTIQUES once again used the mastering talents of JOHN SELLEKAERS @ METARC and it is CHRISTIAN SA LETTE who put his savoir-faire in our service for the design of the sleeve and images. Limited to 441 copies! Deluxe cardboard sleeve.
01. Kall Part I
02. Kall Part II mp3 at 44100Hz / 128Kbps
03. Kall Part III mp3 at 44100Hz / 128Kbps
04. Kall Part IV
Netherworld: http://www.glacialmovements.com
- MATHIAS DELPLANQUE – MA CHAMBRE QUAND JE N’Y SUIS PAS [MONTRÉAL] -
- cd. limited to 500 copies.
- sleeve + 4 inserts.
- mastered by John Sellekaers @ Metarc
- drawings of the sleeve created by Dove Allouche.
- design by eveChabot.
- released in June 2006.
This is the stereo version of a sound installation presented at Montréal’s Studio Cormier in December 2004. It is the second part of the ‘’Ma chambre quand je n’y suis pas’’ series. The piece is based on the recording of “silences”, i.e. the recording of sound produced in spaces with no human presence. The sound of an “empty” Studio Cormier was therefore used as the material for the production of this piece. The sound takes were done during the quietest moments of the day, by means of microphones placed strategically throughout the Studio by the artist. The sounds gathered were then amplified, and their frequencies, accentuated to the extreme. In the installation itself, the sound was broadcast in multi channel mode over 11 loudspeakers, including a subwoofer, in four Studio Cormier spaces (“Hall”, “Living room”, “Bedroom”, “Lab”). This installation closed Mathias Delplanque’s Montréal residency at Studio Cormier from July to December 2004, as part of Les Inclassables program, proposed by the Association française d'action artistique (AFAA), in partnership with the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) and the Office franco-québécois pour la jeunesse (OFQJ).
The result of the experiment, as presented on this record, constitutes a genuine drone odyssey playing on fullness and emptiness, presence and absence, ‘’speak’’ and ‘’non-speak’’…One long track full of subtle movement and enlivened with various underlying currents. A sheer delight.
Mathias Delplanque is known, among others, for his releases under the LENA moniker on the Quartermass label. As THE MISSING ENSEMBLE, Mathias Delplanque, John Sellekaers and Daniel De Los Santos recorded the HIDDEN DOORS cd, released on MONDES ELLIPTIQUES (.E.Q.05.01.).
01. Ma chambre quand je n'y suis pas [Montréal] - excerpt mp3 at 44100Hz / 128Kbps
Mathias Delplanque : http://www.aavvrriill.com
-THE MISSING ENSEMBLE – HIDDEN DOORS
- cd. limited to 500 copies.
- deluxe digifile sleeve + booklet containing short stories by Brian Evenson and Mathias Delplanque
- cover art by Ray Caesar.
- design by NosR.
- released on the 26th day of January 2006.
Three sonic trajectories which tie and untie. Three creative entities to orchestrate the whole. John Sellekaers (Xingu Hill, Dead Hollywood Stars), Daniel De Los Santos (Tamarin) and Mathias Delplanque (Lena, Bidlo) open us the door to a universe whose maze conceals a multitude of other doors. Some are half-open, others are closed and many are, at first sight, invisible. As we explore further, we must let those secret doors some time to take shape, to reveal themselves…and it will then be possible to fix our attention on various aspects of the sound labyrinth that is presented to us, to come and go while letting ourselves be carried by the waves and the modulations, which then become our exploratory vehicle and form one body with us in the journey…Indeed, many doors are hidden, but they are awaiting to be discovered, probed…Behind them, fullness or emptiness…
Here, John Sellekaers, Daniel De Los Santos and Mathias Delplanque have concocted a sound fabric which explores the tangents uniting or dissociating ‘lowercase sound’, drone and dark ambient. Where does each of those styles start, where does it end? No one could tell...Nevertheless, HIDDEN DOORS brings its share of answers…in a very personal way: lots of textures, palpable ambiences, subtle drifts. The whole is produced in an elegant and stylish fashion. Mastered by John Sellekaers @ Metarc.
The hallway was slowly going dim around him, flattening out, the door he had come through now an odd square of black, a vertical panel, two dimensional, rather than an entrance. The whole world, he thought fleetingly, was like that for him, there was nothing he could hold on to but this hall and perhaps a few other halls above that and a corpse he may or may not have seen, somewhere above him. But what did above mean?
01. Part I mp3 at 44100Hz / 128Kbps
02. Part II mp3 at 44100Hz / 128Kbps
03. Part III mp3 at 44100Hz / 128Kbps
04. Part IV mp3 at 44100Hz / 128Kbps
http://www.droneworks.org
http://www.tamarin.org
http://www.metarc.com
http://www.aavvrriill.com
http://www.raycaesar.com
