HAMPSON, ROBERT — Repercussions
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"Disc one: Stereo Version. Disc Two: 5.1 Surround Mix Version. Editions Mego is very happy to announce the release Robert Hampson's 2nd solo album under his own name. Released as a special Stereo CD and 5.1 Surround DVD. 'Répercussions' : An Acousmatic multi channel piece commissioned by the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) in Paris for a performance the Akousma festival, diffused on the Acousmonium speaker system in 2011. Recordings of percussive intruments of all kinds - piano, drum skins, gamelan, metal grates etc are treated and manipulated to form a dense nonlinear or non rhythmical narrative. Each instrument has been Ôremixed' repeatedly, to change it's sonic shape or timbre, to try and form new textures from normally recognisable ones. A more direct 2 channel Stereo version is available and a 5.1 surround version, mixed at the GRM, gives an indication of how the piece was originally conceived as a diffusion. 'De la Terre à la Lune' : An Acousmatic multi channel piece commissioned by Espace Mendes France for a performance at The Planetarium in Poitiers, France, diffused on a 8 channel system. The second piece, following Ahead - Only The Stars (released on ÔVectors' - Touch 2009) which takes it influence from the early Nasa missions into space, but more directly from films such as Kubrick's 2001, Tarkovsky's Solaris and even earlier films such as Pal's Conquest Of Space. Of course, there is also a serious debt to Jules Verne's novel of the same name. Again, a straight Stereo version and 5.1 diffusion mix are available. 'Antarctic Ends Here' : Originally released as part of a split 10' vinyl only issue with Cindytalk on Edtions Mego, this piece has it's first digital format release in Stereo and also 5.1 surround. 3 Textural drones, derived from single piano notes, stretched and looped blend with a field recording of large Bamboos rustling on a breezy Autumn day. Overlayed is a simple and repetitive piano motif which gradually disintegrates into a spectral blur. It's title is in homage to John Cale's final song on the album Paris 1919 'Antarctica Starts Here' and the piece is dedicated to him." [label info]
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"Today is one of those days I regret I have no surround sound set up in my house. This new work by Robert Hampson comes in two versions, a normal CD and a 5.1 version on DVD. I would have loved to hear that in surround sound (and no, I don't know anybody who has). From Loop to Main to his own name, Robert Hampson's career came from guitar rock to guitar ambient and while still Main, slowly more and more musique concrete. Relocated to Paris he is close to the fire, the INA-GRM studios, heartland of musique concrete. Here he created the three pieces of 'Repercussions' (which is a classic title for such music, don't ask me why). With the use of instruments, field recordings and electronics he crafts music that is way beyond what we know from the likes of peers on Empreintes Digitales and Hampson has his own unique sound language, which is still not far away from the latter day Main music. Drone like if you, but hypnotic is a better word. In the title piece Hampson works with all kinds of percussion instruments (piano, drum skins, gamelan, metal), but all these are heavily processed and its by no means a rhythmical piece. Shimmering percussive sounds leak through the dense processing and has a great nocturnal edge to it, like a dawn chorus. The second pieces uses more electronic sounds and finds its roots in early Nasa films and early movies about space travel. Divided in various sections this piece has weightless drone music, radio like signals and signs of alien life, with what seems voice like material. This is the most 'Main' like piece on this release, with some refined isolationist music. 'Antarctic Ends Here' is a piece that was previously on a split 10" with Cindytalk, but I prefer such music on CD. Its dedicated to John Cale and has a great stringed drone sound, sparse tones and field recordings of what seems to me insects. A reminder of a great piece. What can I say? Robert Hampson is a true master and this CD proofs it. Once again." [FdW/Vital Weekly]
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"Today is one of those days I regret I have no surround sound set up in my house. This new work by Robert Hampson comes in two versions, a normal CD and a 5.1 version on DVD. I would have loved to hear that in surround sound (and no, I don't know anybody who has). From Loop to Main to his own name, Robert Hampson's career came from guitar rock to guitar ambient and while still Main, slowly more and more musique concrete. Relocated to Paris he is close to the fire, the INA-GRM studios, heartland of musique concrete. Here he created the three pieces of 'Repercussions' (which is a classic title for such music, don't ask me why). With the use of instruments, field recordings and electronics he crafts music that is way beyond what we know from the likes of peers on Empreintes Digitales and Hampson has his own unique sound language, which is still not far away from the latter day Main music. Drone like if you, but hypnotic is a better word. In the title piece Hampson works with all kinds of percussion instruments (piano, drum skins, gamelan, metal), but all these are heavily processed and its by no means a rhythmical piece. Shimmering percussive sounds leak through the dense processing and has a great nocturnal edge to it, like a dawn chorus. The second pieces uses more electronic sounds and finds its roots in early Nasa films and early movies about space travel. Divided in various sections this piece has weightless drone music, radio like signals and signs of alien life, with what seems voice like material. This is the most 'Main' like piece on this release, with some refined isolationist music. 'Antarctic Ends Here' is a piece that was previously on a split 10" with Cindytalk, but I prefer such music on CD. Its dedicated to John Cale and has a great stringed drone sound, sparse tones and field recordings of what seems to me insects. A reminder of a great piece. What can I say? Robert Hampson is a true master and this CD proofs it. Once again." [FdW/Vital Weekly]