Label: kythibong records

Jean-Baptiste Geoffroyによる謎多きサウンドアート・プロジェクト!!変名Tachycardieにて凄まじい演奏テクニックと秀逸な構造センスのパーカッション作を発表している奇才Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy。こちらはフランスのギター奏者でありシンガーGuillaume Brotとのデュオユニット"United Color Of Black Metal"として出版した1st LP[Synchronicites]。使用楽器や手法は敢えて公表せず作品化した至極ミニマムな物音系録音であり、寺院らしき鐘や降り注ぐ木片的サウンド、ホイッスルなど、元々は全てアナログの録音を電子的に処理し配置したと思われる不思議な音響。ホワイトヴァイナル仕様。







- White Vynil / Screen Printed Cover

This is the second album from UNITED COLOR OF BLACK METAL: screen-printeded white-on-white cover, white vinyl inside, no colours in evidence at all (though mixing light of all colours would give you white light, I suppose… any heat?) and not particularly black metal-like in sound. Instead, a very heavy and intense form of minimalism. It doesn’t sound like anything else I’ve heard, it’s deceptively straightforward in a way that defies (my) simple description, and it has wormed, pummelled its way into my affections.

Confession of ignorance time… I can’t tell how these wonderful vibrations are made. I want to say it’s all electronic (certainly, the sounds are at least processed electrically, even if only through amplification?) but the liner notes, Bandcamp page, etc. are all rather coy about instrumentation and methods. The only clue is referring to Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy and Guillaume Brot’s past work as drummer and guitarist, respectively. Personally, I can imagine (and I want this to be true!) that everything heard originates from some part of a guitar or drum kit; all originally analogue, then processed electronically. For all the alien effect, there’s a warmth to the sound, an organic quality that insinuates painlessly and irrevocably into the auditory cortex to be endlessly interpreted: spherical temple bells, wooden rain, frying bacon, an organic machine-press, J. Arthur Rank on experimental drone-gong, you name it, just under half an hour of elusive imagination and ambiguity.