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d i s s i d e n t
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a r t i s t : Gunter Muller-Le Quan Ninh
t i t l e : La Voyelle Liquide
d a t e : 2000
l a b e l : Erstwhile
g e n r e : Free Improvisation
r l s. d a t e : Dec-2003
t r a c k s : 07
b i t r a t e : 192kbps
s i z e : 103,0 MB
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Two percussionists with a reductive approach to their
instruments meet in Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy (France) for a
two-day, four-hour long recording session, and 75 minutes of
selected music from the session find their way to La Voyelle
Liquide (The Liquid Vowel), released on Erstwhile, one of the
only American labels to give a channel of expression to
improvisers working with electronics. Gⁿnter Mⁿller and LΩ Quan
Ninh both perform on as few drums and cymbals at a time as
possible. They try to extract every possible sound from their
instruments, enhancing the palette with electronics. More from
less; this axiom defines their approach, but also the resulting
music. These improvisations remain quiet, delicate, often on
the verge of collapsing from their own fragility ù and yet they
don't. The listener is torn between two choices: trying to
understand how they did it (which sounds are "natural"
manipulations and which are electronic transformations ù and,
for that matter, transformations of what sound source?) or
simply letting go and embarking on this peculiar aural journey.
Things can get noisier and busier at times (in parts of "La
Voyelle U" and "La Voyelle E"), but the music usually remains
low-key, developing by successive impressionistic touches (on
"La Voyelle I," it becomes so sparse that it is hard to grasp).
The most adventurous ears will be delighted. The artistic
success of La Voyelle Liquide resides in the fact that the
listener never feels the instrumental limitations the musicians
imposed on themselves.
Gⁿnter Mⁿller: selected drums, minidiscs & electronics
LΩ Quan Ninh: surrounded bass drum & electronics
http://www.erstwhilerecords.com
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01-La Voyelle A [04:28]
02-La Voyelle E [21:26]
03-La Voyelle I [13:00]
04-La Voyelle O [08:03]
05-La Voyelle U [08:09]
06-La Voyelle Y [08:36]
07-La Voyelle Liquide [11:16]
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