Label: Sublime Retreat

国内レーベルCalax Recordsからもブック付きLPを出版した、シュルレアリスム的サウンド実験を得意とする個人的激推しプロジェクトThe Dead Mauriacsの2023年作。ベルギーはブリュッセルに滞在中に思い付いたアイデアで構築された作品で、カフェ、公園、教会のフィールドレコーディング、また椅子、テーブル、シャッターなどの具体的な物体音をゲーム的に紡いだという予測不能のプランダーフォニック。毎度の如く構築の上手さに圧倒されます。





The music and text that make up this record originate from repeated stays in Brussels. They were born from curious observations and daily recordings, which, when assembled and manipulated, became a kind of dystopian mirror game.

Some of the sounds on the record were recorded in cafés, streets, a park, the Notre-Dame des Victoires church in the Sablon district, others were made with objects found on the spot, a chair, a table, a shutter, and manipulated with the tools of concrete or electro-acoustic music. Some field recordings, made in other places, were added to create this fiction that the text extends: a sort of dangerous game involving agents, observers and parakeets in a park. Sometimes their respective roles become confused, as do time and space.

The Dead Mauriacs entrusted the visual aspect of the project to Evan Crankshaw, with whom they often work. With his collages, he brought a vision that deterritorialises and enriches both text and music.