FUENTES, MATHIEU — Ily, Almeria
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« Ily, Almería » is the second album by French composer and performer Matthieu Fuentes, who debuted in 2021 with a promising album on Penultimate Press. Matthieu’s music sprung from the "musique concrète" tradition, using elements and fragments of electroacoustic music, field recording and sound art.
« Ily, Almería » features ambiguous sources and unknown presences recorded from 2018 to 2022. Manipulated and re-edited on a computer and a Revox B77 reel-to-reel tape recorder, these materials are brought together to give a polysemic perception of space, sometimes with the help of synthetic trickery. Dreamed scenes, texts, questions on acousmatic and time arts fuel the process of a poetic research. Like a distant and distorted memory, « Ily, Almería » wanders in reality and fiction, media and body, the domestic and the high-speed outside world, tangible and delirium, in and out-of-frame phenomena. The sonic outcome is a fragile assemblage, a dynamic interplay of well sculpted nervous collages, overwhelming tunnels, smoother sequences and delicate soundscapes.
« Ily, Almería » has a total length of 40 min. It’s available on a limited edition of 100 copies.
On "Le Rideau"
Bagpipes – Lise Barkas
Cello – Stéphane Clor
Guitar – Zoe Heselton
https://moremars.bandcamp.com/album/ily-almer-a
https://moremars.bandcamp.com/album/ily-almer-a
« Ily, Almería » features ambiguous sources and unknown presences recorded from 2018 to 2022. Manipulated and re-edited on a computer and a Revox B77 reel-to-reel tape recorder, these materials are brought together to give a polysemic perception of space, sometimes with the help of synthetic trickery. Dreamed scenes, texts, questions on acousmatic and time arts fuel the process of a poetic research. Like a distant and distorted memory, « Ily, Almería » wanders in reality and fiction, media and body, the domestic and the high-speed outside world, tangible and delirium, in and out-of-frame phenomena. The sonic outcome is a fragile assemblage, a dynamic interplay of well sculpted nervous collages, overwhelming tunnels, smoother sequences and delicate soundscapes.
« Ily, Almería » has a total length of 40 min. It’s available on a limited edition of 100 copies.
On "Le Rideau"
Bagpipes – Lise Barkas
Cello – Stéphane Clor
Guitar – Zoe Heselton
https://moremars.bandcamp.com/album/ily-almer-a
https://moremars.bandcamp.com/album/ily-almer-a