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| + artist ........... Marc Leclair |
| + album ............ Musique Pour 3 Femmes Enceintes |
| + label ............ Mutek |
| + cat .............. MTK_FAB04 |
| + year ............. 2005 |
| + genre ............ Electronic |
| + source ........... CDDA |
| + quality .......... VBRkbps / 44,1Khz / Joint-Stereo |
| + release date ..... 21.05.2005 |
| + size ............. 109,7 MB |
| + link ............. www.mutek.ca |
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| .Musique Pour 3 Femmes Enceintes |
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| 01.Marc Leclair - 1er Jour (Marc Leclaire Vs Rechenzentrum) |
| 02.Marc Leclair - 33e Jour |
| 03.Marc Leclair - 64e Jour |
| 04.Marc Leclair - 85e Jour |
| 05.Marc Leclair - 114e Jour |
| 06.Marc Leclair - 150e Jour |
| 07.Marc Leclair - 180e Jour |
| 08.Marc Leclair - 205e Jour |
| 09.Marc Leclair - 236e Jour |
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| (t!) total 274e Jour: 71:39 min |
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| One can easily imagine the brouhaha that would have erupted had |
| Musique pour 3 femmes enceintes (Music for 3 pregnant women) been |
| issued under Marc Leclair's Akufen pseudonym, since listeners |
| desperate for more of My Way's chopped radio snippets and crisp |
| microhouse beats will hear very little of that on this latest |
| release. In short, Musique pour 3 femmes enceintes is most |
| assuredly not an Akufen album; what it most assuredly is, however, |
| is marvelous, a richly textured travelogue of tactile ambient |
| soundscaping. Leclair brings a different though no less |
| accomplished and sophisticated sensibility to this music as he |
| does to his dance-oriented Akufen and Horror Inc. tracks. What |
| results is work that's equal in caliber to Leclair's other |
| recordings, though obviously more of a listening experience than a |
| dance album. |
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| Inspired by the pregnancy of his wife and two friends, the project |
| is an ode to the experience of impending motherhood. Divided into |
| nine sections (marked by day totals, like "180e jour" for section |
| seven, for example), the workÆs 72-minutes parallel the stages of |
| pregnancy with the music slowly unfurling in a continuous stream |
| of ambient and more propulsive episodes. The term ambient is used |
| reticently here, because Musique is anything but aural wallpaper. |
| Consider the marvelous opening section, a "Marc Leclair vs. |
| Rechenzentrum" production. It begins with a wavering drone that's |
| gradually overlaid by prickly stabs, weaves of whirrs, clicks, |
| throbs, and surging washes panning from left to right, with the |
| drone then mutating into a slowly modulating theme; by its |
| midpoint, the piece has become a more animated, multi-layered mass |
| of tactile digitalia. Field sounds of insects, warblers, and loons |
| indicate that the fourth section has burrowed into the Canadian |
| wilderness, though the piece is marred by the overused clichΘ of |
| water sounds. |
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| Whether by accident or design, the album references the fertile |
| templates of distinctive precursors-Steve Reich, Chain Reaction, |
| the clinical sound fields of Raster-Noton-that Leclair merges with |
| signature elements of his own style. The surging, swirling mass of |
| silken guitars in part six recalls Reich's Electric Counterpoint |
| though Leclair bolsters the arrangement's punch with subtly |
| swaying rhythms. In section eight, he pairs Chain Reaction's |
| trademark steely burble and dubby smears with glistening guitar |
| plucks and skipping beats. Akufen devotees will be heartened by |
| the appearance of clipped voice fragments in section five and |
| microhouse ripples in section seven. |
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| Of course, Leclair designed the album's musical development so |
| that it would mirror the trajectory of the pregnancy process; |
| hence the opening sections float in a more aqueous, ambient manner |
| while later sections escalate in intensity and propulsion. But, to |
| his credit, he also deviates from this obvious linear trajectory |
| by having the album weave unpredictably through multiple moods, |
| even if climaxes of sorts can be detected in parts six and eight. |
| Ultimately, though, familiarity with the albumÆs concept is hardly |
| necessary as the music impresses splendidly sans any programmatic |
| associations. |
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| Reviewer: Ron Schepper |
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| Ripper's Note: |
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| Proper of this awesome album is needed because BFH release |
| contained seperate tracks and was missing track names. |
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