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DELPLANQUE, MATHIAS - L'Inondation

Format: CD-R Label & Cat.Number: Mystery Sea MS45 Release Year: 2008 Note: lim./numb. 100 hand/laser-printed fullcolour cover Price (incl. 19% VAT): €12.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info “L’inondation is the stereo version of a multichannel sound installation presented at the VKS gallery (Toulouse) in june 2005. All sounds are drifted from the basement of my apartment building in Nantes”. [M.Delplanque]. Burkinabese/French sound artist Mathias Delplanque is an accomplished musician who has classical music studies in his rich pedigree, as well as a grade at the Ecole Nationale d'Arts de Cergy Pontoise & a master's degree in aesthetics (Paris I university)... Multifaceted, Mathias has many strings on his bow, using different identities to explore different paths... LENA sees him deal with contemporary dub forms, while in BIDLO, he navigates at the fringes of electronica... He has also done numerous collaborations with various musicians (Black Sifichi, Ghislain Poirier, Charlélie Couture, etc...) and released 2 albums (Zeropolis, Hidden Doors) with THE MISSING ENSEMBLE (John Sellekaers, Daniel De Los Santos) where he took part into the conception of hallucinogenic hybrid pieces mainly dealing with the dark corners of our derelicted cities...Under his own name, Mathias composes soundscapes of a more concrete, or experimental-ambient nature (“Ma chambre Quand je N'y Suis Pas [Montréal] on Mondes Elliptiques, “La Plinthe” imminent on Optical Sound) or conceives works meant for galleries or art centers (specific installations)... so far, he has collected many rewards, and has made some artist residencies in France, Canada, and India... His MS contribution, is a piece aptly named “L'inondation” which was first presented at the VKS gallery in Toulouse during 2005...all sounds are drifted from the basement of his apartment building in Nantes... In an enclosed space where all lights are low we skip over a dark surface seeping into the walls brushed by their reverberations We learn to listen to new nocturnal chants, the constant flickering of lamps, the tiny deflagrations, the microfluxes of electricity, the surrounding moistness, and memories drip, dragging us back to their inception... “L'inondation” is about letting ourselves overcome with, a submersion of the senses, celebration of the underlying..." [full label press release] "If my reading of the press statement is correct then at least the bare bones (if not the entirety) of this remarkable album consists of a recording (or recordings) made from sounds filtering up from the lower floors of Delplanque's apartment building. L'inondation consists of all those sounds that are so exotic and disturbing in a 'silent' house - drips, hisses, clangs & taps. Sounds that are both amorphous and mundane. For Delplanque they are the building blocks from which he creates his soundworld. As you'd expect from that premise there isn't huge scope of material to be had but those sounds that are available are used to their utmost and to spellbinding effect. " [Wonderfulwoodenreasons.com] www.mysterysea.net