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MATHES, JEREMIE - Arset

Format: CD-R
Label & Cat.Number: Mystery Sea MS66
Release Year: 2010
Note: first release for a new French field recording/drone-designer; sounds derived from "sea shells, reef, shore, sand, rumbled, insects, cymbals, candle holder, bass, ebow, horn, various percussions and electronic devices." full-colour inkjetprint cover lim. /numbered ed. 100 copies
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"French sound handler Jérémie Mathes is nourished by the tonal vibrations of the region he lives in, in south of France. He has been studying electro acoustic composition, as well as acousmatic and concrete methods with Bruno Dozon, & Patrick Roudier. Using field recordings, improvisation with found objects, he shows a clear propensity to elaborate organic textures combined with electronic treatments. His compositions are carefully carved in detailed layers with a strong power of evocation...
"árset" is his proper significative debut, and is based on the following materials : sea shells, reef, shore, sand, rumbled, insects, cymbals, candle holder, bass, ebow, horn, various percussions and electronic devices.

Coalescing into a shapeless lush magma...
Tangled & crackling softly...
Open waters ooze life
enlarging the circle,
swallowing up everything...
Ever shifting, pushing things further
closer to the faraway horizon,
as elusive as a morning breeze
hovering myriads of alluvium...
Low scrapings & shards abound,
amplified waves & ricochetting dreams...
A song from the inner depths,
contourless...impenetrable...
yet with so many refractions...
"árset" unfurls a primal tone
linking past & present...
A taking root for our searching souls..." [label info]

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"Mystery Sea continues to surprise us with new names. Here we have the debut album (or rather 'his proper significative debut', which may hint at other releases) of Jeremie Mathes, from France. He studied electro-acoustic composition and uses on this album sea shells, reef, shore, sand, rumbled, insects but also cymbals, candle holder, bass, ebow, horn, various percussions and electronic devices. Not that its easy to tell from what I heard as Mathes knows very well how to transform whatever it is that he uses into five pieces of what is best described as 'sound matter'. Its not easy to detect some aquatic theme to it, usually required by the label (other than perhaps such titles as 'Mary Celeste' and 'Sund'), but Mathes creates some fine drone like music that goes well with the label's catalogue (which, come to think of it, taking in account their ongoing release schedule, can be placed along the lines of Drone Records and Taalem, except Mystery Sea does them one at a time). The acousmatic approach used by Mathes is not that of gliding scales of sound going up and down, but slowly building blocks of sound. His music resembles in a way that of Kassel Jaeger, another new name from 2010, that holds promise for the future and in some ways also Main/Robert Hampson comes close. Mathes delivers quite a good debut album. Not really a surprise in terms of 'new' music, but its all crafted in a more than excellent way." [FdW/Vital Weekly]