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Drone Records is proud to present the first ever collaboration release of these two cosmopolitan sound artists from France and Japan (residing currently in Taiwan and Belgium), based on a variety of field recordings, ‘concrete’ material improvisations and personal additions done in different parts of the world. We can hear mysterious (micro)-sounds that could come from minerals, stones, plants, or daily objects and instruments - opening up two soundscaping tracks full of wondrous elements, combining the 'concrete' with the sublime and the atmospheric… lost in the huge network of organic entities in the 'More-Than-Human World' around us.
Soundohm
Dicht und transparent zugleich. Die beiden Experimentalmusiker Yannick Dauby und Hitoshi Kojo nutzen zwischen 2006 und 2013 aufgenommene Fieldrecordings und tatsächliche Instrumentalsounds für ihre Zusammenarbeit für die Substantia Innominata 10“ Serie auf Drone Records. Das Ergebnis ist fast schwerer zu beschreiben, als dies bei anderen Experimentalarbeiten möglich ist: im Vordergrund von „La Vie Dans Les Airs“ ein immer wiederkehrendes Signal, das mal wie ein Tierruf, wie das Signal einer dampfgetriebenen Maschine oder auch wie der von irgendwo wiederhallende Ton eines unbekannten, in Zirkularatmung gespielten asiatischen Blasinstruments erscheint.Melodisch fast unbewegt, Dynamik fast ausschließlich über winzige Lautstärkeschwankungen und ebensolche in der Harmonie gewinnend. Dazu kristallin filligrane Gewebe von Aufnahmen, über dem Ton, dazwischen, dahinter. Später Schreie von Lebewesen oder doch kreischendes Metall? Das alles immer im Schatten des übermächtigen Signals, das sich verdichtend fast zur Fläche entwickelt. „La Vie Dans Les Eaux“ dann gleichzeitig ruhiger und perkussiver, ohne je Rhythmus zu entwickeln, dadurch hintergründiger, aber auch stärker nach reinem Fieldrecording erscheinend. Bis die Verdichtungen gegen Ende einen fast loopartig aufbauenden Soundberg entstehen lassen, als Höhepunkt, als Abschluss. Eine wahrhaft geheimnisvolle Zusammenstellung, die jederzeit vermitteln kann, dass Yannick Dauby und Hitoshi Kojo bei der Arbeit in einem fast außerweltlichen Zustand gewesen sein müssen, die aber ganz bewusst zu verweigern scheint, Details dazu preiszugeben. Eben weil die Atmosphäre nicht entschlüsselt wird. Nicht düster, nicht aggressiv, nicht zurückhaltend, nicht… …nicht fassbar. Und deshalb unglaublich verführerisch. Oder, wie Yannick Dauby sagt: „We were touching metal with our skin, with wood and with stones. We were navigating in the obscurity, under the earth. We were probing the water with our instruments. Almost like if we were trying to let some lifeforms emerging from the land.“ …mit einem Artwork von Andrew Chalk, nebenbei bemerkt… Unbedingt mehrfach hören, falls die fehlende Entschlüsselung am Anfang sperren sollte.
N (Black onliine)
This is already the 24th 10" release by Drone Records 'Substantia Innominata series 'presenting works inspired by or related to 'the Unknown' around or within us'. I believe the title roughly translates as 'life in the air and in water'; I might be wrong. According to Dauby they were "touching metal with our skin, with wood and with stones. We were navigating in the obscurity, under the earth. We were probing the water with our instruments".
Dauby we know for his field recordings inspired work and Kojo was once known as Spiracle, had a duo with Michael Northam as Kodama and releases under his own name, playing object based music.
I am not sure if they were together when they recorded this, as Dauby is based in Taiwan and Kojo in Belgium, but it could very well be the case. It's meeting also of both their interests; where field recordings meet up with a dense mixture of scraping sounds of metal on metal, which on the first side reminded me of Giancarlo Toniutti's earliest records.
It has quite a dense feeling, this one, but at the same time it is also quite loosely played. The sparse rattle of metal objects in the wind, the foghorn from afar, and everything moves in a very slow pace. There is something mysterious about this music; it feels like we spy in on a secret nocturnal performance of some kind. We hear some instruments, and also a cold wind blowing past these proceedings. Or maybe these are not instruments but everything is site specific; a kind of magic circle in which all sorts of things happen? Stuff we can't see, but we hear it from a great distance.
One side is based near a pond with water splashing a bit and the other side is inside a forest. Everything around here is very careful, very quiet and yet full of sound. It's not your typical drone record; not some long form ominous drone piece, but careful and sparse. Excellent in its entire mystique.
omnimemento is a sound archive of Hitoshi Kojo since 2005 to present, after the move to Europe from
Japan.
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