Label: Klanggalerie

5thアルバムが拡張仕様で初再発!!1987年発表の傑作[Le Sens Positif]がアート系指南書Broken Musicにも掲載されている、マルセル・デュシャンの主要作品より名前を拝借し80年に結成されたMarc & Eric Hurtadoによるフランスの兄弟デュオEtant Donnes。オリジナルはDie FormのPhilippe Fichotが運営したBain Totalより84年にカセットフォーマットにてリリース、5thアルバムに当たる激レアタイトル[Ceux Qu'on Aime]が初CD化。フィールドレコーディング、ファウンドサウンド、暴力的ボーカルが叙事詩や演劇の様な構成で、または沸々とした雑音の渦で表現される唯一無二のミックスセンス。オリジナルには収録されていないボーナストラックを追加。



Etant Donnes is a French duo named after Marcel Duchamp's last major work. The group consists of brothers Marc and Eric Hurtado, born in Morocco and working mainly as performance artists and musicians. Their sound can be described as a mix of field recordings, found sounds and sometimes whispered, sometimes violent vocals. They describe their sounds like this: "Through Marc and Eric, it is the volume of each word that becomes an object-sculpture, together with the power of their bodies expressing their voices. Each event is a scream - indeed even the glissando - of the strength of the word that sometimes abruptly becomes a rock, a solid surface, not in the least fluvial, as is the narrative of a tale, novel or poetic epic. With both of them, there is no more trace of ancient prosodies, no more trace of the incomprehensible Sainte-Beuve who could claim: "I have to collect a volume of prose". The word, the voice, the volume take shape with each other, unveiling a theatre that theatre usually ignores, which has given it such things as a Samuel Beckett's Fin de Partie." Over the years Etant Donnes have collaborated with people like Lydia Lunch, Michael Gira, Alan Vega and Genesis P-Orridge. Cinq Portes Soudées was the band's fifth album, originally released on Die Form's Bain Total label in 1984 on cassette only. For this CD re-issue we have added a long bonus track not on the original album.