Artist : Chubby Wolf
Title : L'histoire
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2009
Date : 09/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 11
Label : n/a
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 73:02 min
Size : 78,6 MB
Tracklist:
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01.The Weak Version 07:37
02.Toy Pianos Underwater 05:39
03.Anti-Body Library 09:46
04.Oh, And How It Was Stunning; Writhing 08:36
05.Unnerved Rains 07:30
06.Inverted Windows 03:13
07.Feigned Indifference 01:33
08.Lay The Voice To Rest, Dear Mist 09:06
09.Blind Studies Of The Eclat 01:18
10.Perceptual Constancy Of Ripples 17:25
11.You, My Luminary 01:19
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73:02 min
Chubby Wolf is Dani "Chubbs", who also
performs as half of the husband and wife
duo, CELER , is a writer/educator,
publishing in poetry, prose, non-
fiction, social commentary, a painter,
photographer, and an inventive musical
multi-instrumentalist and vocalist. As a
permanent member of CELER through
marriage, she has contributed equally to
many self-releases, as well as works for
labels in Japan, North America, and
Europe. She has an extensive background
in Gender Studies, Education,
Photography, and Tibetan Studies, as
well as having lived and studied in
India, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. She
currently lives in Southern California
with her husband, cat, and two wolf
dogs.
CHUBBY WOLF LÆHistoire (Gears of Sand)
With a name like Chubby Wolf, tossed out
amongst the half-dozen or so other
artists using the word ôwolfö as part of
their nomenclature, you might not be
mistaken if you thought it yet another
in a long list of noise-affiliated
projects. But wait: LÆHistoire arrives
released on the intrepid Gears of Sand
imprint, well-noted for its now dense
catalog of experimental drone and
distinctive atmospheric music, so any
ideas of noise to the contrary can be
formally laid to rest. Quite the
opposite this music is, in fact the
polar opposite. Across eleven
meticulously sculpted, wind-chapped,
albeit sometimes chilly, pieces, adorned
with titles such as ôAnti-body Libraryö,
ôInverted Windowsö, and ôYou, My
Luminaryö, Chubby Wolf demand you close
the windows, turn the lights down to a
faint dim, and let these potent
miasmatic toneshifts waft between the
four walls as they insinuate themselves
in your subconscious. Like the work of
Pauline Oliveros, LÆHistoire is an
exercise in deep listening, one that
makes that demand implicit on its
participant. Though all attendant sounds
were created with a seeming paucity of
means (toy piano, a heart monitor, and
the obligatory electronic processing),
the ends are justifiably vivid and
contemplative, even downright lustrous.
The poetic lilt the artist lends to a
piece such as ôLay the Voice to Rest,
Fear Mistö is pure sensation, literally
and figuratively, supple, if shrill,
wisps of sound tendering a bleak
landscape. That the artist can render
such poignancy out of the barest of
electronic materiΘl speaks volumes about
how the softest approaches can often
yield the most concrete results. Oh, and
Chubby Wolf is Dani Baquet-Long, half of
drone avatars Celer, which goes some way
to explain how these tattered sonic
pages uncurl to reveal the argot
residing deep within its mysterious LÆ
Histoire. DARREN BERGSTEIN
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Chubby Wolf, real name
Danielle Baquet-Long female half of
Celer. Died July 8, 2009 of heart
failure.