Label: Unsounds

フィールドレコーディング好きにも激推し!!ピエール・アンリ、ベルナール・パルメジャーニの影響下、独自の音を追求し続けているベテランLionel Marchetti、フィールドレコーディストでありながら楽器演奏も行うBenjamin Bondonneau、90年代前半から変わらぬペースで活動を続けるクラリネット・プレイヤーXavier Charles、この3者が結成した新ユニットLocus Asper Locusのデビュー作。フランスのペリゴール地方を全員でハイキング、バッテリーを抱えながらなんとその道中の野外で録音したいう自然環境との同調を狙った作品で、その見事な調和っぷりに間違いなく圧倒されます。全7テイク素晴らしい。







Benjamin Bondonneau, Lionel Marchetti and Xavier Charles form the trio Locus Asper Locus. The acoustic instrument ensemble relies on improvisation and a choice of electronic tools to push the exploration of the Sib clarinet to the extreme, as much for its capacity to produce high intensity ‘noise’ as finesse. Inspired by Voyage with a donkey in the Cévennes by R. L. Stevenson, the trio sets off on an hike in the Périgord, for a few summer days. They will experience the very varied territories through listening, and through the creation of sonic universes inspired by what’s around them, accompanied by the three donkeys who are also their first audience. The three musicians are equipped with packages, instruments, active speakers, a synthesizer, cables and effect pedals, all on batteries for complete autonomy. They choose beautiful sites where they improvise, installing their recording systems in the open air. The tranquil mules lend an attentive ear while nature vibrates and the clarinets converse in the July heat.