Nappe is Pierre Faure and Christian Malfray (also members of La Morte Young, Sun Stabbed or pFeM). A slow and mysterious music between drone, electroacoustic and improvisation made with electric guitar, modular synth, filters, ... then reworked on analogue tape.
100 numbered copies.
Side 1 : Lee Ranaldo (electric guitar) / Jean-Marc Montera (electric guitar). Recorded by Eric Billabert at GRIM Studio, Marseille, France on May 26, 2010.
Side 2 : Thurston Moore (electric guitar) / Jean-Marc Montera (electric guitar). Recorded by Martin Stumpf at Echo Canyon, New York, January 1997. Mastering by Nicolas Dick. Photos by Hervé Durand. Design by Octobre.
“There are the most incredible encounters. Behind the one I had with the two guitarists of Sonic Youth lies the amazingly sharp eyes of a journalist, or more accurately a musical historian of our times, who recognised the spine of an album on which I appear, from a photo in a magazine. of an interview w Thurston Moore. Thurston is sitting in front of part of his immense record collection. This was enough to prompt a meeting prior to the group taking the stage in Marseille and opened the door to a collaboration, sporadic but ongoing since 1997. The duet with Thurston was recorded in NY, in January 1997 at SY’s studios and the one with Lee at the Grim studios, the musical stage of Montevideo, in May 2010. Coming after the release of "MMMR" on Numero Zero Audio / Xeric, and of "A Possible Dawn" on Hat Noir with Loren Mazzacane Connors, where the two guitarists played together for the first time in a project other than SY since the formation of the group, the release of these two duets on a young French label confirms, as if there was any need, the interest that these two musicians inspire on the old continent." Jean-Marc Montera
At the beginning a one day event in the church Le Corbusier in ST Pierre de Firminy (France) with the sound artists Jérome Noetinger, Christian Malfray, Jean François Minjard, Jérome Montagne, Pierre Faure, Mathias Forge, Hervé Boghossian, Bruno Capelle, Nicolas Dick, Hervé Durand, Jean François Plomb. The entire space was occupied by the artists and equipment. Audience could go in the main room for live acts, a smaller room for live processing and the third room for live diffusion on 12 speakers. The entire event has been recorded. And the label Dysmusie asked the composer Christine Mannaz-Dénarié to work with these sound sources. She composed two musique concrete pieces which give her own translation of this event into a very poetic way. A very nice release !