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CHAUVEAU, SYLVAIN — Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)
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"Stripped: dekonstruierte "Popsongs" des franzsischen Elektronikers.
Es ist kaum zu glauben, dass zwischen Sylvain Chauveaus letztem Album "Down To The Bone" und "Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)" ganze fnf Jahre liegen. Dazwischen gabs Reissues, diverse Kollaborationen und Soundtrack-Arbeiten, dennoch lie sich Chauveau Zeit, bis seine Ideen die Reife hatten, umgesetzt und auf Tontrger gebannt zu werden. Die Depeche-Mode-Songs, die er auf "Down To The Bone" erkundete, brachten ihn auf die Idee, ein Album mit Songs aufzunehmen. In vielerlei Hinsicht ist "Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)" wie ein normales Album mit Hooks und Melodien konstruiert. Dennoch dekonstruierte Chauveau die bekannten Formen auf ihr Grundlevel. Vokalpassagen fallen aus den sparsamen Klavierarrangements wie pfel im Herbst. So wie Carsten Nicolai und Ryuichi Sakamoto klassische Musik dekonstruierten, hat sich Chauveau vorgenommen, die Wurzeln der Popmusik freizulegen. Jedes Stck klingt zunchst so, als knne mit ihm ein Drei-Minuten-Pop-Stck beginnen, bevor dann alle Teile allmhlich wegbrechen. Eine herausfordernde, intensive Hrerfahrung." [label info / Indigo]
"It is hard to believe that five years have passed since Sylvain Chauveaus last proper album. Of course there have been re-issues peppering the years since Down To The Bone, as well as more than a few collaborations and soundtrack appearances, but Sylvain has purposefully waited to allow his ideas to come to fruition. On mentioning his new album to me a few years ago, Sylvain commented that he didnt think it would appeal to everyone and that he wanted to take a fresh direction. The Depeche Mode songs he had explored on Down To The Bone had given him ideas he felt he needed to explore, and Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) is his attempt at an album of songs.
In many ways, Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) is constructed the way albums used to be it is compact and filled with vocal hooks and melodies, yet Sylvain has deconstructed the musical forms he grew up listening to and reduced them to their base level. Vocal snippets fall through the stereo field and his signature piano motifs splutter and cough through processed digital hiccups. As Carsten Nicolai and Ryuichi Sakamoto deconstructed classical music, Sylvain attempts here to study and dissolve the roots of popular music. Each piece feels like it could have started as a three-minute pop sing-along before the accompaniments were stripped away and the component parts reduced to merely a backbone.
Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) is a daring and challenging listening experience. The widescreen theatrics of Sylvains previous work have all but disappeared, leaving an album that is stark and incredibly beautiful. It is an album rooted in a love of art and music, both minimal and mainstream and celebrates Sylvains influences. One listen might only reveal surface details, but listen again and you will find much, much more." [label info]
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Es ist kaum zu glauben, dass zwischen Sylvain Chauveaus letztem Album "Down To The Bone" und "Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)" ganze fnf Jahre liegen. Dazwischen gabs Reissues, diverse Kollaborationen und Soundtrack-Arbeiten, dennoch lie sich Chauveau Zeit, bis seine Ideen die Reife hatten, umgesetzt und auf Tontrger gebannt zu werden. Die Depeche-Mode-Songs, die er auf "Down To The Bone" erkundete, brachten ihn auf die Idee, ein Album mit Songs aufzunehmen. In vielerlei Hinsicht ist "Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)" wie ein normales Album mit Hooks und Melodien konstruiert. Dennoch dekonstruierte Chauveau die bekannten Formen auf ihr Grundlevel. Vokalpassagen fallen aus den sparsamen Klavierarrangements wie pfel im Herbst. So wie Carsten Nicolai und Ryuichi Sakamoto klassische Musik dekonstruierten, hat sich Chauveau vorgenommen, die Wurzeln der Popmusik freizulegen. Jedes Stck klingt zunchst so, als knne mit ihm ein Drei-Minuten-Pop-Stck beginnen, bevor dann alle Teile allmhlich wegbrechen. Eine herausfordernde, intensive Hrerfahrung." [label info / Indigo]
"It is hard to believe that five years have passed since Sylvain Chauveaus last proper album. Of course there have been re-issues peppering the years since Down To The Bone, as well as more than a few collaborations and soundtrack appearances, but Sylvain has purposefully waited to allow his ideas to come to fruition. On mentioning his new album to me a few years ago, Sylvain commented that he didnt think it would appeal to everyone and that he wanted to take a fresh direction. The Depeche Mode songs he had explored on Down To The Bone had given him ideas he felt he needed to explore, and Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) is his attempt at an album of songs.
In many ways, Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) is constructed the way albums used to be it is compact and filled with vocal hooks and melodies, yet Sylvain has deconstructed the musical forms he grew up listening to and reduced them to their base level. Vocal snippets fall through the stereo field and his signature piano motifs splutter and cough through processed digital hiccups. As Carsten Nicolai and Ryuichi Sakamoto deconstructed classical music, Sylvain attempts here to study and dissolve the roots of popular music. Each piece feels like it could have started as a three-minute pop sing-along before the accompaniments were stripped away and the component parts reduced to merely a backbone.
Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) is a daring and challenging listening experience. The widescreen theatrics of Sylvains previous work have all but disappeared, leaving an album that is stark and incredibly beautiful. It is an album rooted in a love of art and music, both minimal and mainstream and celebrates Sylvains influences. One listen might only reveal surface details, but listen again and you will find much, much more." [label info]
www.typerecords.com