a r t i s t : Pedro Chambel
t i t l e : Bruit
d a t e : 2006
l a b e l : Creative Sources
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : Aug/2006
t r a c k s : 06
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 47,6 MB
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Creative Sources CS059
Pedro Chambel: guitar, microphone
Portuguese guitarist Chambel starts with microsounds
camouflaged as barely visible biotic structures but sure
enough, from the second track on, hisses and hums are
amplified, dissected and exploited, becoming a mirror
reflecting everything that a guitar and a microphone would
never want to say. Crude and naked, the electric meditations
that Chambel initiates get disturbed by fiddling and
scrabbling on strings and other surfaces, like if tiny animals
- prisoners in a six-stringed cage - tried their best to catch
the attention of the casual listener. But the most satisfying
texture of the disc is indeed the progressive hypnotic pulse
of the feedback drones: long moments of pre-explosion drift
strain the nerves without deviating from the main course,
making "Bruit" maybe the first "minimalist" release by
Creative Sources, at least until the author bombards our brain
with echoed distortion in the sixth movement.
-Massimo Ricci (Touching Extremes)
With this disc Creative Sources present a solo-work for
electric guitar, by an unknown player/composer. For those who
know this label it is clear that we are in the zen department
of improvised music. Music that concentrates on sound in a
non-rhetoric, ego-less way, often very near to silence. This
is also the case for this album. Chambel makes use of unusual
guitar techniques. In the case of Chambel you almost forget at
moments that you are listening to a guitar. Chambel was one of
the first musicians to appear on the Creative Sources label.
His debut-album 'Anamnesis' (2001), also a solo-ablum for
guitar, was the fourth release by this label. With 'Bruit'
recorded in Lisbon (2005) Chambel presents his second work.
Typical for this cd is the use of long sustained flows on the
one had, and short, ever changing, little sounds on the other.
The last ones make you attend for every little nuance and
subtlety. In tracks 2 and 4 we find both elements combined. It
didn't work for me, I must say. Compared with the album of
Demand this one has more dynamic. It is a kind of
electro-acoustic work because of the way Chambel makes use of
microphones. The result is a very abstract music. Keith
Rowe-like. All tracks start very silent. You have to become
silent yourself in order to come into contact. This music
works only if you want to change your listening habits. Well,
may be not only these habits.
-Dolf Mulder (Vital)
http://www.creativesourcesrec.com/catalog/catalog_059.html
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01-Bruit Pt. 1 [06:30]
02-Bruit Pt. 2 [06:10]
03-Bruit Pt. 3 [05:57]
04-Bruit Pt. 4 [05:22]
05-Bruit Pt. 5 [07:25]
06-Bruit Pt. 6 [09:24]
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40:48 min