Murcof & Philippe Petit - 1st Chapter

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"For the past 3 years I have been collaborating with Murcof, working on an album and playing live quite a few times. "The Call of Circé" is the opener of our forthcoming album to be released on Aagoo in the Summer of 2013."

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"The meeting of such unconventional musicians was always going to result in a pretty incredible piece of work, but confronting such strong identities and getting them to work together was not a given. For the past three years, Philippe Petit and Fernando Corona have regularly played live together, undoubtedly refining their collaboration with each new performance and finding the right balance between their respective sound worlds. The result is this album which equally finds its roots in Murcof’s modern classical influences and Petit’s coarse post modernist soundscaping.The album may barely reach the forty minute mark, but in the space of three tracks, Corona and Petit create a magnificent soundtrack which teems with haunting choral chants, lush string work and unsettling atmospherics."

"This album is rooted in ancient myths and legends, borrowing from Greek mythology for "The Call Of Circé", daughter of Helios and powerful enchantress, and winged divine horse "Pegasus", or from Nordic tales of giant squid-like sea monsters on "The Summoning Of The Kraken". This very much characterises the epic proportions of this album, echoing in parts the amplitude of Murcof’s "Cosmos" (Leaf, 2007), and in others Petit’s equally ambitious "Off To Titan" (Karlrecords 2010), but they temper this with much more delicate moments, for which they assemble incredibly detailed and refined atmospheric passages."

"Clocking at just over twenty minutes, the opening piece "The Call Of Circé" is articulated around a series of sequences which range from stern, doom-like guitar stabs and harsh percussive noises to eerie choral laments and theatrical vocal flourishes. The haunting melodies and ambiences of the first half are slowly broken apart by the recurring thuds of metallic percussions. When these recede, the mood has become darker, grittier, more oppressive, and remains as such for much of the remainder."Pegasus" recalls some of the more baroque treatment Murcof experimented with on his commissioned work for Les Grandes Eaux Nocturnes de Versailles, especially through his use of the viola de gamba as a primary sound source, but this sound source becomes corrupted as the track progresses, perhaps subject to Philippe Petit’s radical decay processing, until only a few distorted strands of grating bowed strings remain."

"With the last track, Corona and Petit opt for an overall softer, warmer atmosphere, but there is a lingering feeling of impending danger lurking below the surface of the whole piece. This is marked by the use of sparse percussions, magnified vinyl crackles and processed guitars and textures which, assembled in various combinations, weight heavily on the otherwise almost pastoral nature of the composition.Philippe Petit knows how to find collaborators with whom he can go beyond his own sonic universe and make them venture into unfamiliar territories, and he is an expert in making these collaborations gel perfectly. And this is one hell of a collaboration: two artists, each with this visionary approach, working together to create a truly magnificent piece."

Stop farting around with the artsy stuff and get back to getting Oceano out, Fernando!

(although I will check this out)

  On 6/12/2013 at 11:53 AM, azatoth said:

Stop farting around with the artsy stuff and get back to getting Oceano out, Fernando!

 

(although I will check this out)

lol exactly!

From what i can hear here his latest gimmicks include lots of morphing faqries.

I'm waiting two things for a long time now:

- his new solo album (Oceano???)

- vinyl reissue of Martes

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09 July 2013

Murcof + Philippe Petit: 1st chapter / Release date: September 2013

 

Aagoo is teaming up with the hot Dutch label Rev Lab (http://www.revlaboratories.com/) to release "1st chapter" by Murcof and Philippe Petit. We will have LP, CD and Digital available.

http://www.aagoo.com/

I like the vocal version better. Listen...

Yes it's rather artsy stuff, but not as artsy that I would dislike it. I love this small... album. I listen to Pegasus pretty often.

  On 6/12/2013 at 1:44 PM, xox said:

 

  On 6/12/2013 at 11:53 AM, azatoth said:

Stop farting around with the artsy stuff and get back to getting Oceano out, Fernando!

 

(although I will check this out)

lol exactly!

 

From what i can hear here his latest gimmicks include lots of morphing faqries.

 

I'm waiting two things for a long time now:

- his new solo album (Oceano???)

- vinyl reissue of Martes

Yeah I've been waiting for more people to go for the martes repress through beat delete. Seems to have stalled a bit though.