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PERNICE, LAURENT - Presque Nature (Musique Immobiles 26-30)

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Taalem - alm146 Release Year: 2025 Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00 More Info When buying this album, you'll also get a free download code for "PSL drones", a 20-minute track belonging to the Musiques Immobiles series and previously released in the "taâlem advent calendar 2024". Presque Nature, Laurent Pernice's brand new CD, will take you on a musical journey to one of the most remote parts of Vanuatu (Wunavae, on the west coast of Espiritu Santo Island), but also off the coast of La Ciotat, in the underwater depths of the Mediterranean, or even in areas of the Camargue that are off-limits to the public... You can also listen to sunrises in the Hardelot forest (near Boulogne-sur-Mer, north of France) or in the Vigueirat marshes (near Arles, south of France)... This journey of just over an hour, divided into five minimalist and contemplative sections, was composed (or rather uncomposed) over a period of ten years, during the composer's travels. They are a bit like sound sketchbooks. The concept of Musiques Immobiles was conceived by Laurent Pernice in the late 1980s and continues to fuel his inspiration today. review in Vital Weekly 1500 Lastly, there’s Laurent Pernice, a former member of the French band Nox, whose later interests lie in the use of the sampler and electronics. I reviewed various of his releases. On this new release, he plays synths, piano, gopichandi, zither, bells, gigo, and gong, along with field recordings, which are listed per track. He did a fair bit of travelling; one doesn’t see Vanuatu often mentioned on a cover. The previous release I reviewed, ‘Antigone’ (Vital Weekly 1443), was a rather delicate one, and this one isn’t different. The music and field recordings are two separate entities. He plays music to fit the field recordings, or he has fully formed musical pieces and uses the field recordings as an extra, or perhaps it’s a combination of both. Unlike Moljebka Pvlse and Northam, whose drone and ambient pieces are abstract and devoid of melody, Pernice’s music is characterised by the gentle melodic touches he adds to the drones. These are primarily piano notes, and one could see a link with Harold Budd and Brian Eno at times, which Pernice extends to using percussion relatively sparsely. Depending on your mood, I’d say this is the perfect ending to a night of abstract drones, with a melodic bit at the end, or at the start and end, accompanied by Moljekba Pvlse’s haunting soundtracks. But on a sun-soaked, early Autumn day (what am I doing inside the house? Oh, it’s the last Vital Weekly), this is the perfect mellow soundtrack for such a day. (FdW) credits released November 7, 2025 All instruments (synths, piano, gopichandi, zither, cymbals, bells, jingo, gong) played by LP. Except for ‘Six Jours’: fujara and batas drums played by Px Hal. All field recordings made by LP. Composed, recorded and mixed by LP between 2012 and 2022 at Studio du Cabanon, Marseille, France. — 01 - Six Jours Field recordings were made in the forest on the East Coast of Espiritu Santo island, Vanuatu, in 2012. — 02 - Aussi loin April 2015, at dusk, in the area of Vigueirat marshes in Camargue, France, that is off-limits to the public. You can hear the call of the eurasian bittern, which sounds like a bottle being blown into. This bird, more than any other, is in danger of extinction. — 03 - Lever du jour 1 (Vigueirat) Harmony and melody based on Carlo Gesualdo's madrigal ‘Moro, lasso! al mio duolo’ (n° 17 of the Sixth Book). Sounds of nature recorded at dawn in April 2015 near the Vigueirat marshes in Camargue, France. — 04 - Un rêve subaquatique Underwater recordings made in La Ciotat Bay, France, in 2021. — 05 - Lever du jour 2 (Hardelot) The sounds of nature at the origin of this piece have been recorded around 5 AM, in August 2012, on the edge of Hardelot forest, Pas-de-Calais (France). Mastered by Flavien Gillié https://taalem.bandcamp.com/album/presque-nature-musiques-immobiles-26-30-alm-146