HOUND presents...
Artist.......: Valentin Stip
Album........: Sigh
Label........: Other People
Genre........: Electronic
Catnr........: OP006
Source.......: CD (LP)
Rip.date.....: 2017-02-02
Str.date.....: 2014-02-17
Quality......: 681kbps/44.1kHz/2 channels
Url..........: http://other-people.net
track title time
1. Tableau II 3:47
2. Pendule 5:04
3. Aletheia 8:17
4. Correlation 6:50
5. Aveu 3:07
6. **** 5:09
7. Regards Sur L'enfance (I & II) 7:44
8. Sigh 10:04
Runtime 50:02
Size 242.48
Release Notes:
"Several years ago, Valentin Stip was sitting alone by a harbour in the small
French town where his parents grew up. ôI heard all the sailing strings hit the
masts, and I realized that every sound you hear is potentially music,ö he says.
ôThe only thing that makes sound into music is the mind, arranging it.ö Since
then, Valentin Stip has been building a bridge between the sounds that live
inside and outside his head. On æSighÆ, the 21-year-old producerÆs full-length
debut on Other People, Stip organizes classical piano, lightly sputtering
grooves and intimate found sounds into an album of compositional grace and
emotional honesty. Valentin Stip emigrated to New York City in middle school and
immediately fell in with a creative crowd, including the then-fledgling producer
and future Other People labelhead Nicolas Jaar. Upon learning the ins and outs
of electronic production, Stip discovered a new, more personal way of
interpreting the darkly shaded piano music heÆd been writing. He soon released a
string of melancholy, beat based EPs on Nicolas JaarÆs Clown & Sunset label,
æAnytime Will DoÆ and æAngstÆ, and toured alongside Jaar, all while he was still
in college. With eight songs clocking in at nearly an hour and sequenced as a
continuous piece of music, Valentin StipÆs æSighÆ charts a winding path through
its creatorÆs psyche. As æSighÆ unfolds, sounds become as tactile as objects:
overcast electronic atmospheres rumble and swirl, minimalist piano melodies
chime in the distance, and subtle programming percolates like ripples on the
surface of a lake. Moments of sombre introspection give way to time-stopping
beauty, as when the jet-black drone of æ****Æ opens up into æRegards sur
LÆEnfanceÆ, all sun dappled vibraphones and sandbox melodies. On æAletheiaÆ,
Stip subliminally intones ôEverything I say is a lieö as ambient passages give
way to Eastern melodies and a gently headnodding conga beat. SighÆ ends with the
achingly spare, Debussy-esque chords of its title track, a heavy hearted
comedown built on little more than a single repeated piano note, pinging static
and, well in line with its creatorÆs musical worldview, tiny intakes of breath."
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