Artist and musician Frédéric Tentelier creates musical theater shows and sound installations. He composes his music with field recordings, Fender Rhodes, organs, banjo, objects... His music is recorded in particular spaces, from graphic scores, topographic maps, harmonic translations or improvisations... He considers field recording as a harmonic and musical material, but also as a temporal material structuring musical forms. Time and silence are the bases of his musical forms. In this disc, he assembles various materials accumulated in the spring of 2020 for 50 days in a row. These are harmonic translations of words or sentences heard on the radio. It is a construction reflecting a particular period during which suspended time and introspection were favorable to him.
本アルバムは、Tentelier が2020年の3月と4月に50日間かけて自宅スタジオで制作・収集した様々な音素材を構成して作り上げた5曲を、CD2枚に収録 (Disc A に2曲、Disc B に3曲)。フィールド・レコーディングとともに、Tentelier 自身によるフェンダー・ローズ、プリペアド鉄琴、オルガン、ハーモニウム、ベース・メロディカの演奏を使用している。最短で11分、最長で35分と、5曲とも比較的長い演奏の中で、いくつかの楽器音を重ねた簡素な旋律が穏やかにゆっくりと流れる。コロナ禍の中での制作という特異な状況も、反映されていることだろう。内省的で、やや不安げでもある素朴な調べがしんみりと聴き手の耳に入り込んでくる。
Composed, performed, recorded, assembled and mixed by Frédéric Tentelier, March-April 2020, at his studio Abri Noïr on the Opal Coast, France
Mastered by Bruno Duplant
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