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FRANCK, YANNICK & CRAIG HILTON - Flowers for L.P.

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Idiosyncratics idcd007 Release Year: 2013 Note: stunning collaboration between the ever evolving Belgique droner YANNICK FRANCK and CRAIG HILTON (known from GAUCHISTE), intense & dark surrealistic drone/dreamscapes that move into unknown fields, ghostly, slow, swampy.. ... inspired by French poet JACQUES RIGAUT, who committed suicide in 1929... phantastic album, highly recommended !! Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info "Yannick Franck teams up with North American musician Craig Hilton (of bands Gauchiste and Loincloth) to provide this hauntingly contemplative collaboration . The album has been inspired by French poet Jacques Rigaut (1898-1929), who remains one of the most mysterious and overseen poets in French literature. Although linked to the dadaist movement Rigaut didn't really belong to any group or trend. He did live his life as he wrote, with nonchalance, if not apathy towards existence leaving only aphorisms and short or unfinished novels behind him. Despaired to be depraved of himself, Rigaut tried to find who he was among his many reflections. The eye, looking at the eye, looking at the eye... Until he broke through the other side of the mirror to become his double, Lord Patchogue. That he described in such terms: "vulnerability, weakness, and fear of being changed into a new fabric". Rigaut's disregard towards life and his refusal to take anything seriously aroused an amused though irresistible attraction to suicide, suicide that he actually committed in 1929, shooting a bullet in his carefully dot marked forehead. "Asserting suicide rather as a last snook at life and its callous reality then as something utterly tragic" says Franck. Rigaut was also the central character of Louis Malle's "Le Feu Follet" (1963), a film after the eponymous novel published by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle in 1931 . Far from being a desperate complaint to an idealized, iconized Rigaut, Flowers For L.P. slowly flows and glows like the deep waters of a great city's river at night. Conceived as a soundtrack to Rigaut's dark, surreal, even fantastic journeys, where his slightly ironic smile never completely fades away." [label info] www.idiosyncratics.net "The other new release on Belgium's Idiosyncratis is also a work of collaborative efforts. Yannick Franck has been more active recently, but in the past already played with K11, Alan Trench (Temple Music), Ester Venrooy and here renews working with Craig Hilton, who is an electronic musician, but also a metal guitarist. His work too found its place in Vital Weekly before. On their 'Flowers For L.P.' release, which has one piece that lasts forty-two minutes they are inspired by French poet Jacques Rigaut (1898-1929), writing aphorisms and short or unfinished novels. He was someone looking for himself, literally, in mirrors and found Lord Patchogue. He shoot himself in the eye in 1929. Its hard to say what these two men actually used to produce this music, hell, its even difficult to guess. It might a duet for two guitars, two bows and a ton of sound effects, but if this was the result of a two cymbals being strummed I would also believe it, or maybe a whole bunch of old Organum records being sampled. The latter just seems very unlikely. But it shares that bowed sensibility. A swarm of drone like sounds, a whole mass of them, being played at the same time and gradually over the course of this piece growing in intensity, and slowly changing color and shape. From the searching for ground at the beginning and the high mountains towards the end of it, this is some heavy slab of ambient noir, dark, brooding and somewhat violent. Perhaps as crazy as the many who inspired it? A top heavy work on the hottest day of the week, and I was wondering: how did I survive?" [FdW/Vital Weekly]