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ETOU
“En orbite”
ETOU arose from the convergence of two giants of current Canadian music: Martin Tétreault, a dazzling turntablist of international renown; and Michel Langevin, the famed drummer of the legendary progressive metal band, Voivoid.
For this promising duo’s first LP and CD, Oral and Minute have teamed up to introduce this unique partnership to all lovers of thundering sounds and electrifying performances. The intensity of their studio compositions and wide-open dialogues are unique and unmatched.
Michel Langevin is a drummer who made his mark in both heavy metal (over 25 years with the Jonquière band Voivoid) and alternative music (numerous collaborations); the sheer physicality of his performances has left no listener indifferent. Martin Tétreault, known worldwide for his use of turntables, diverse surfaces and stringed instruments, is an experienced improviser with countless collaborations to his credit.
This “super group” has been in the making for several years. The pair’s first encounter dates back to April 12, 2007, at the 100% Batterie! event based on Martin Tétreault’s concept of playing exclusively drum solos on vinyl, and bringing together nine drummers in the same hall (Michel Langevin among them). Since then, the duo has performed on several occasions in Quebec, each highly memorable.
The two musicians have developed a sound that combines their respective practices, with a heavy accent on rhythm, percussion and tangled masses of sound that emerge from their vibrant exchanges. Sharing a clear musical affinity, each is open to the world of the other in a collaborative dynamic.
Martin Tétreault is here powerfully and abrasively percussive, while Michel Langevin approaches the drums as a complete instrument, a source of rhythmic variations and unusual textures. The range of possibilities thus expands for each instrumentalist. From this collision of musical genres and cross-pollination of practices, new approaches emerge, new avenues of diversity and creativity.
The compositions on these two disks, each available at the launch, were recorded in May 2013 at Studio Resther in Montreal and mixed in December 2013. They reflect the work of two musicians who complement each other rather than engage in a duel. With their extraordinary musical dialogues, accelerations, dynamic contrasts and unbridled energy, the two disks will simply take your breath away.
Their shows are like balls of fire, penetrating our souls and irradiating us with their astounding high-voltage sound. For all those interested in the galvanizing power of musicians who give all they have, this is absolute must listening. Source : ORAL_records. 200 copies.
Original price was: 17,50€.10,00€Current price is: 10,00€.
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Toshimaru NAKAMURA
“No input mixing board #8”
Letterpress impression. Limited to 200 copies. Co-Released by Oral and The Dim Coast. “Here’s my new (in 2013) solo album. I hope you find it worthy enough to take your time and have a listen. It was recorded in one day. Compared to previous releases, “Maruto” on Erstwhile Records (2 years to produce), “Egrets” on Samadhisound (5 years), it came to life quite quickly. Almost like it popped out. But it took three men’s great support to realise it this way. Eric Mattson was an initiator. He ignited this project by inviting me to Quebec City, made me talk and play music, and kept me in a good mood with a lot of tricks. Steve Bates kindly offered me a newly furnished studio, his time and work (then he became the one who encouraged me the most to put out this record). And David Sylvian drove up from his home in New Hampshire to join us. We worked collaboratively for two days. After David left, the studio looked completely different from when I arrived. Around my no-input mixing board was a mess of cables, microphones and loud speakers, a set up suggested by David, and there I was very tempted to stay for another day to do some more recordings by myself. The result of all this is here. Thanks very much to Eric, Steve and David.”- Toshimaru Nakamura
16,50€
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Bernard BONNIER
“Casse-tête”
Composed in 1979 and edited on LP in 1984 by Amaryllis. Reissue on CD by Oral, 2008. “Contrary to an electronic music delighting itself in soaring above reality in self abstraction, the concrete music of Bernard Bonnier has a down on earth hearing, and a dancing too, altough now and then out of beat. Bernard Bonnier has defined chameleon-music as: “...a mime* trying to beat its parth through the puzzle (casse-tête: literally “head-breaker”) of soliciting madness, sundowns, violence, science, love, death, velveeta* cheese, competition, sex, zen, and mandragora.” This must be true as well of soldier boy, an issue to the motion: “nothing lost, everything regained”. Each and every single sound hear trough this piece has been made from the loop “tell me why...” by means of electro-acoustic manipulations, the mark of Bernard Bonnier’s concrete music. Following the steps of Pierre Henry, Bernard Bonnier has been a forerunner to new-wave, and other “underground rock” music.” Aulnes Périn February 79
13,00€
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Eliane RADIGUE
“PSI 847”
Long awaited first ever release of one of Éliane Radigue’s masterpiece. She mentioned once that with PSI 847, she reached at that time exactly what she intended to do with the ARP synthetizer. Deluxe version with 2 CDs + 24 pages booklet, in French and English. Composition : Éliane Radigue. 1972. Interpretation : Lionel Marchetti. 2012. Textes : Lionel Marchetti, Thibaut de Ruyter. A short history of 847. 11.1972 - ARP 2500 Synthesizer on magnetic tapes. Produced at the composer’s studio. Final mixdown at GMEB, Bourges. 02.1973 - First creation while in residence at the Electronic Music Studios of the University of Iowa. 31.01.2012 - Concert : Club Transmediale, Berlin. Interpretation Lionel Marchetti’s interpretation with original magnetic tapes Direction : Éliane Radigue. 11.2012 - ORAL 57 : CD 1: Version concert. Live recording of the spatial interpretation by Lionel Marchetti. Stereophonic recording directed by Marcus Gammel (Deutschlandradio), mastered and remixed by Lionel Marchetti. CD 2: Version studio. Original magnetic tape, size 6/25, 19 cm/s, mastered by Lionel Marchetti, autumn 2012. “The performance of PSI 847 is about to begin. Once again, Radigue has employed one of her favoured sound dissemination tricks: directing the banks of loudspeakers not toward the audience, but toward the building…The soundboard is at the rear of the house, and Marchetti will be playing the tapes from there. Radigue is in a seat, like any other audience member. There will be nothing to see, no one on stage, no visual distractions. But what happens when you listen to this music? What sensations, feelings or thoughts emerge? Obviously, any drone-based music generates, first of all, a physical experience… You must give in, abandon yourself, forget about trying to figure out whether three minutes or an hour have elapsed. This is… truly an experience of slowness. A rare moment for which you must prepare, and be in the right condition (no need to meditate, or try to achieve a trance state, either: a little concentration will suffice!)… Once you’ve accepted the loss of physical bearings, you can then attempt to grasp Radigue’s compositional talent: locating motifs that modulate and transform at varying intervals; appreciating the evolution, the appearance of a new movement, or, as in the case of PSI 847, the insensible dissolution of the music.” Thibaut de Ruyter, Berlin 2012.
24,00€
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Alexandre ST-ONGE
“Joseph Carey Merrick”
SPECIAL CLEARANCE PRICES. “Welcome to eveyone for this CD Launch, the 22nd and the first of Alexandre St-Onge on Montrteal label Oral. This work is singular, vivid and direct, the 3 parts are glued together as a sound jewel. Following his tribute to Joseph Carey Merrick, composed and played at Epoxy 5 by Alexandre St-Onge in Montreal, May 2007, this not to be missed cd builds a relationship in between two monsters with deep feelings : the author and the man whom filmaker David Lynch immortalized in his movie The Elephant Man.”
3,00€