Label: Un Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi - UJNSQ-035

LP版は廃盤、新たなカセットフォーマットがリリース!!大大大推薦のプリペアド・ピアノ作！！メカニウムでお馴染みフランスアヴァン界の重要人物Pierre Bastienや、奇天烈パーカッションプロジェクトTachycardieの音源を手掛けるUn Je-Ne-Sais-Quoiがリリースした重要物件！！本作がソロ・デビューにとなるという女性ピアニストRachel Langlaisによるグラフィックスコアを用いたプリペアド・ピアノ録音[Dothe]。ジョン・ケージの手法に習い2台のアップライトピアノの弦に紙、金属ブツ、木片、粘着テープを接着、特殊なチューニングで有機的な反復パターンを奏でた極上の実験ミニマル。演奏の構造及び音色がとにかくカッコイイ傑作。お見逃しなく。











Composed, played, recorded and mixed by Rachel Langlais, Dothe is an album that was built around two upright pianos, which she tuned and played differently. In line with John Cage and his prepared pianos, Rachel Langlais relies on this broad practice which consists in modifying the very nature of the sounds a piano makes by applying various materials directly onto the strings (paper, metal objects, pieces of wood, adhesive tape, plastic…). She completes her approach to the prepared piano with diverse recording and digital processing techniques (cut, slowdown) turning Dothe into a contemporary experiment.

The title was borrowed from Ursula K. Le Guin’s science-fiction novel The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), in which “dothe” is a nervous hysterical strength that can be controlled and that is practised by some inhabitants of a planet called Gethen. After using dothe, the body must take a rest called “thangen.”

A visual universe echoing the repetitive organic patterns that shape this album was conceived by graphic designer and silk-screen printer Damien Tran.
Damien Tran makes posters, animation short films, fanzines and art books. His work has been exhibited around Europe, the UK and the US. For Dothe, he imagined a back-to-front cover, credits thus appearing on the front with a choice of colours playing on harmonious and jarring associations, while the back cover is minimal, without any text.
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