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LAMY, PHILIPPE - Drop Diary

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Mystery Sea MS72 Release Year: 2013 Note: the great ambient series from Belgium has switched completely to "fabric pressed" CDs now with a non-jewel case design; this new release presents with PHILIPPE LAMY a painter & ambience composer creating very mellow & subtle 'liquid landscapes' with lots of details, based entirely on silent concrete sounds.. lim. 200 Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00 More Info "After numerous appearances on various netlabels, collabs with Pleq, and shortly after the publication of his debut solo CD “Slowfast” on Dronarivm, Philippe Lamy confirms all the hopes placed into him… Years of experience as an established painter and teacher in Plastic Arts, as well as his late coming to the music have allowed him to stand back, and feed his soundscapes with an extreme care for textures & densification… This expert practice lead him to weave intimate bounds between his visual art, and his sound pieces… With “Drop diary” he pushes everything further, close to some total synesthesia… Mix of fluids, cross of breaths, sketch of outlines, a succession of barely visible, furtive worlds… Lines, strokes, fleeting & penetrating moments, splinters of night… Rubbings, drip, measure of time, a notion of universal, permanent flux… A way of sticking to it, be within its own heart… Self ramifications… Holes, folds, follow-up of curves… The squeezed in words, dissimulated truths, swirls, veiled cluster of stars… So many mute guides… A necessity of merging into, to understand, to take on a new lease of our surroundings, enriched by their own echoes, their murmurs… Captured sources, origin points, the calm of the brush, the amplitude of the move, like a gradual obviousness, an amazing force, till going back up to the primary water, spurt of lives… “Drop diary” records the vital impulse, a compendium of emotions, it shows that elusive something, that essential which founds us, yet remains ungraspable…" [label info] www.mysterysea.net "The only time, I think, I heard of Philippe Lamy before, was when he did a remix of Pleq (see Vital Weekly 767), but here he comes up with an album of field recordings made in his painting studio and 'some sounds "outside"' as it is said on the cover. Entirely different cake here. Unlike many of the Mystery Sea recordings, the connection with 'water' is not easily made here in the music (except for some dripping in 'Au Revoir', the final piece on this release)å. Perhaps this is because there is a lot of processing applied to the music? Maybe it's because it's all quite soft? The latter for sure: this is indeed all quite soft and no doubt there is a lot of processing here. It makes that the music of Lamy is not easy to decipher. It seems there is an amount of motorized sounds, such as in 'Depot' for instance, but most of the times it's just very hard to know what is going on. The abstract level is very high here, and it results in something that is not always highly original, but it sounds altogether pretty good and pretty intense. You have to stop doing whatever it is you're doing and listen with all your available senses to the music. You think Main here, or Kassel Jaeger, but then much softer, more pushed away and alienated, and that's mainly due to the soft spoken nature of the music. Maybe this harks back to the time when this sort of quietness was all new and great, but for me, I wouldn't have minded to have all of this a bit louder and more present. I like to play a CD straight away and not first having to fiddle around with my EQ to get the best out of it." [FdW/Vital Weekly]