Artist : Richard Chartier
Title : A Hesitant Fold
Genre : Electronic
Year : 1999
Date : 02/18/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 08
Label : Meme
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 60:29 min
Size : 81,3 MB
Tracklist:
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01.(01:02) 01:04
02.Compliment 05:03
03.Arranging Between Patterns 19:39
04.Internal Analogy 04:31
05.Variation 08:08
06.(6) 10:26
07.A Hesitant Fold 07:59
08.Second End 03:39
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60:29 min
TITLE: A Hesitant Fold
ARTIST: Richard Chartier
FORMAT: CD
LABEL: Meme [ Japan ] (MEME 016)
RELEASED: 1999
EDITION: 1000 (out of print)
INFO:
in jewelcase with black and white offset printed inserts
TRACKS:
1. [01:02] (1:02)
2. Compliment (5:02) < EXCERPT
3. Arranging Between Patterns (19:38)
4. Internal Analogy (4:31)
5. Variation (8:08)
6. [6] (10:25)
7. A Hesitant Fold (7:59)
8. Second End (3:39)
REVIEWS
His sonic palette is vast, ranging from huge deep bass to razorsharp high frequency tones, and all manner
of microsounds... the end sound is purist: precise and ultra-clean, almost scientific. The format is
minimaland spacious, reflecting an all white modernist sonic architecture, a fully engineered and designed
space that is mapped out by the frequencies themselves. This measured emptiness becomes a gallery for
the presentation of the sounds that are the artist's fascination... each sound is presented as a sculptural
object, each a work of art in itself that suggests a quality of individuality... the physical space is paramount:
it is where these sounds interact. Speaker placement, room acoustics, and the orientation of the listener
play active roles... the sound speaks only of itself and the act of listening.
(Head Magazine, UK)
8 tracks of quiet pulses and waves, once again best listened to with your headphones on. It is remarkable
how Chartier's music has its own very personal character. In that sense he is defenitely on the same level
as Ikeda or Noto. But in comparison with them, Chartier's music has got an intimacy, that is not easily
associated with this kind of music. This is probably partly due to the low volume of the tracks, but also has
something to do with the way his work sounds. The stereo panorama is extensively used for all those
pulses and bleeps and there are no FX to distract from the original synthetic sounds. So it is the pure
nature of this synthetic material, that creates the intimacy, because of its directness. The tracks have a
slow and steady development, with some breaks here and there, but not any harsh ones. Chartier makes
very clever use of the different qualities of pulses and waves, alternating or combining them in such a way,
that their character is changing all the time. And that is exactly why this CD is so fascinating: he is able to
make strong compositions with a very limited amount of material. And I think that deserves a lot of credit.
(Vital Weekly, The Netherlands)
...high quality challenging pure-tone works of individual thumbprint, a task not as easily feted these days as
one would assume. Repetitive pulse-sound akin to slown down international code transmissions through
miles of distilled water (for dispersion effects), not for the faint and certainly not for the impatient.
Remarkable.
(Hrvatski, USA)