Martial Canterel - Refuge Underneath (c) 2007 Wierd Records
Artist....: Martial Canterel
Album.....: Refuge Underneath
Type......: Album
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: 18
Genre.....: Electronic
Label.....: Wierd Records
Catalogue#: VR 003
Encoder...: LAME 3.97
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
URL.......: http://www.mcanterel.net/
Tracklist:
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01 Refuge Underneath 04:20
02 Lips Not Listening 03:25
03 Two Before Four 04:32
04 Frozen Ghetto 03:40
05 Foreign Birthplace 03:38
06 Drilling Backwards 03:40
07 Open & Shut 03:09
08 3 Days 04:21
09 Assault 03:57
10 Vision 04:35
11 Sister Age 03:58
12 Silence 04:40
13 Firmament 03:40
14 Listener Dead 04:33
15 Hausmann 04:41
16 Harbors & Martyrs 04:34
17 Instincts 04:45
18 Page & Fold 03:56
Total:92,8 MBB / 74:04 min
Release Notes:
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Wierd Records is proud to present Martial Canterel's first full-length
CD release entitled "Refuge Underneath", a compilation of the artist's
first two long-deleted self-released cassette tapes "Drilling
Backwards" (2006) and "Sister Age" (2004) as well as 5 previously
unreleased tracks, all digitally re-mastered.
Over the past 5 years the state of electronic music has seen artists
slowly remove themselves from their work and visceral musical
"expression" in general. Traditional electronic machines have been
replaced by the computer as the dominant generator of contemporary
sounds. It is in this climate that Sean McBride, aka Martial Canterel,
began performing at bars, clubs and private parties in Brooklyn, NY in
2002, functioning singlehandedly as the pioneer and instigator of what
has now become a new movement of minimal electronic bands in the United
States.
Martial Canterel records and performs using only vintage analogue
synthesizers and sequencers, producing a highly-crafted, complex, and
idiosyncratic form of electronic music that is simultaneously
romantically melancholic and affirmatively aggressive. Inspired both by
the first wave of relatively unknown minimal electronic bands in
Northern Europe (a musical genre also often referred to as "minimal
synth") and the seminal industrial noise bands such as Throbbing
Gristle, SPK, and Cabaret Voltaire. Martial Canterel presents a new
optimistic paradigm for electronic music in which the analogue
synthesizer functions anew as a folk instrument of humanist resistance
to a virtual "soft synth", iPod, and iTunes saturated world of "click
and drag" dematerialized abstraction.