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FOUSSAT, JEAN-MARC / GEORGIOS KARAMANOLAKIS - Substunce Sans Scrupule

Format: LP Label & Cat.Number: Noise-Below / More Mars mm23 Release Year: 2017 Note: intense noise-improvisations by this French-Greek pairing => "In 'Substunce Sans Scrupule' we witness the union of musique concrète ideas with noise, of field recordings with vocal delays, of electroacoustic music with drone. In 'Substunce Sans Scrupule' the faraway splinters of jazz fuse with japanoise, the dreamy with the real, the Magical-Religious with the Scientific." lim. 300, excellent cover art & inlay Price (incl. 19% VAT): €17.50 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info "Two amazing musique concrete, improv electronics, drone, ambient,noise compositions which come in a limited edition of 300 handnumbered copies co-produced with like minded pals Coherent States, More Mars, Heraclis, Agios Anthropos, Robbery Alarm Records and Noise Below. “Substunce Sans Scrupule” is a dream. A hazy dream born in the emptiness between the words of “Igitur ou La folie d’Elbehnon” by Stéphane Mallarmé. A dream that sought Marcel Proust's lost time and constituted the light and the black void between the singlen frame of Gregory Markopoulos. It is the birth and the destruction of the work of art, primitivism and science. “Substunce Sans Scrupule” is as much Georgios Karamanolaki’s automatic writing on the work of Jean-Marc Foussat as Jean-Marc Foussat's on the work of Georgios Karamanolakis, imagined and recorded in 2017 in Paris and Athens. The ultra vivid dialogue and communication between the artists creates a completely spontaneous work of 43 minutes that constitutes an immersive ritual of shocking sound, illusionary image and complementarity. In “Substunce Sans Scrupule” we witness the union of musique concrète ideas with noise, of field recordings with vocal delays, of electroacoustic music with drone. In “Substunce Sans Scrupule” the faraway splinters of jazz fuse with japanoise, the dreamy with the real, the Magical-Religious with the Scientific. Α fragment of time documented in 140g 12” vinyl record format, in an edition of 300 hand numbered copies. Athens 2017 Jean-Marc Foussat, EMS Synthi AKS, EMS Phase Frequency Shifter, Toys, Vocals, Jew's Harps, Bird Calls, Ableton Live, Boss SE50, Mix Table. Georgios Karamanolakis, EMS Synthi AKS, Roland Space Echo, Vocals, Max Steel Toy Vocoder, Yamaha Vector Synthesizer TG33." georgiokaramanolakis.bandcamp.com/album/substunce-sans-scrupule "Dolf Mulder, our free-jazz/improvised music reviewer, did much of the reviews of previous music by Jean-Marc Foussat in these pages and I was thinking that this too is pretty much the work of improvisation, yet it is probably too noisy for our man. Foussat is born in 1955 and since the mid-70s he has been playing guitar and synthesizer in progrock bands and these days handles various EMS synthesizers, Ableton Live, toys, vocals and BOSS SE50. Here he does so with Georgios Karamanolakis from Greece, who also works with a group with Greek name, as well as with the “underground urban intervention team OMIO”, as well as running his own label (also a Greek name for which I am not sure if the copied letters will work, so I don’t try). He performed together with Astro in 2011, and here also plays the EMS synthi AKS, Roland space echo, vocals, max steel toy vocoder and the Yamaha Vector Synthesizer. On the insert it says “recorded and mixed live in Paris, FR - Athens, GR in 2017” and the forty some minutes this LP lasts is quite a blast, but not one without any points of rest or contemplation. It cracks and it bursts but it doesn’t collide under its weight. It is quite some dynamic music, both in terms of loud and quiet (the latter a bit less), but also in terms of energy approach towards the music. Sure there is quite some harsh tones, brittle noise here but also there is room for some chanting (on the second side), or more carefully placed clicks and cuts. Maybe this is free jazz cooked with a hot stew of noise with some sweeteners thrown in? There is something fascinating odd about all of this, and I am not sure what it is, but I would think it is all wonderfully psychedelic. Noise but colourful." [FdW/Vital Weekly]