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DELPLANQUE, MATHIAS - Passeports

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Bruit Clair BC03 / Cronica 048 Release Year: 2010 Note: Sound-visions from travelling! 7 tracks using field recordings from various transport-related locations around France and India as sound sources, further processed to dense & subtle drone-ambient compositions full of elegance & beauty. Highly recommended album by this French sound-researcher, nice priced !! Price (incl. 19% VAT): €10.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info "Passeports is a series of works composed from various field-recordings realized in transport-related locations across France (train stations, harbours, parking lots, transit areas...) and weaved into dense ambient compositions. Passeport 3 (Dieppe) further includes recordings made in a call center in New Delhi. These recordings were the whole of the raw material used in the composition of this album, and were then themselves transported to Mathias Delplanque's home, where they were played back into the spaces of the various rooms, so that the mix between the broadcast sounds and domestic noises would itself be recorded to become the final version of the tracks - something that is particularly clear in Passeport 7 (Nantes), the track that concludes the CD. Passeports is a work that questions the relations between space and music - between the sound and its space, between the music and its place. Passeports is Mathias Delplanque's 8th solo album under his own name. It follows the line of albums such as Ma chambre quand je n’y suis pas (Montréal) (Mondes Elliptiques 2006), L’inondation (Mystery Sea 2008), La Plinthe (Optical Sound 2008), Ma chambre quand je n’y suis pas (Paris) (Taâlem 2009)… This record is co-produced with portuguese label Cronica Electronica. Cover painting by Steve Roden." [label info] www.bruitclair.com "The ever so active, but perhaps these days even more active Mathias Delplanque delivers another album here, co-released on his own Bruit Clair label and Cronica Electronica. This is a sort of thematic album, in which Delplanque uses field recordings from transport related areas, such as train stations, harbors, parking lots, transit areas all over France (Nantes, Lille and Dieppe to be precise). These sounds were played at home in various rooms, and then recorded along with sounds from outside. A working method that reminded me a bit of his empty room exploration of 'Ma Chambre Quand Je N'Y Suis Pas' (see Vital Weekly 560). There are no doubt all sorts of sound effects at work here, although perhaps mainly in the equalization part of this, this is ambient music pur sang. Music to fill an ambience with music to transform an ambience and to be transformed by an ambience. If you get my drift? Its not easy to say wether this was made when the field recordings were processed, or wether this is the actual result of some live-at-home mixing situation, but the music is quite good. Warm, glitch like drones swim around with all sorts of outdoor sounds leaking through in the mix. A refined combination of field recordings, microsound and electronic music, culminating in 'Passeport 7 (Nantes)', a most spacious piece of swarming drones and warm fields. Great one." [FdW/Vital Weekly]