Drone Records

ETIENNE, YVAN - Feu

Format: CD

Label & Cat.Number: Aposiopese APO 10

Release Year: 2014

Note: FEU is the promising debut album of French sound artist YVAN ETIENNE, recorded at EMS in Stockholm, using SERGE MODULAR synths and a hurdy gurdy (Drehorgel) plus field recordings = an unusual combination with highly interesting results! *.... like having your head inserted in the centre of a lengthy electrical discharge, making your hair stand on end with its wild tendrils of direct current, and threatening to clean out your pores once and for all with its vibrant force." [Sound Projector]

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"On Feu (APOSIOPÈSE apo10) there is a very striking long suite called ‘De La Charge’ which is like having your head inserted in the centre of a lengthy electrical discharge, making your hair stand on end with its wild tendrils of direct current, and threatening to clean out your pores once and for all with its vibrant force."
[The sound projector]

"Yvan Etienne is active as a sound experimenter interested in issues surrounding site-specific audio installations and as a composer proposing weighty reflections on perception and the physicality of sounds in space.
Etienne has not been lacking for collaborative work in recent years, undertaking projects and performance with the likes of Phill Niblock, Yann Gourdon, Richard Glover, Brice Jeannin, Patrice Grente, Julien Ottavi, Robert Poss, Paul Panhuysen, Marie and Verry Joachim Montessuis, to name a few, as well as acting as curator and director of the Ohcetecho aux Presses Du Réel collection. For the three tracks of his first solo album Etienne manipulates various field recordings, a Serge modular synthesizer and a hurdy-gurdy (whether ancient or modern is not known). The result is a sound simultaneously fluffy yet stinging, replete with ambient noise, drones and sparse sequences that feel grainy and menacing, hovering somewhere between organic and inorganic. The impressive scores are very dense and layered, building to a crescendo that is harmonious and addictive, despite the fixity of the narration. Strongly iterative, immersive and resonant, the work reflects a keen sense of spatiality and dynamics. The listening is pleasant but never too conciliatory, favoring moods that are rather spacey and sidereal, infused with vintage synths, tools made popular in the mid-seventies by artists such as Frank Zappa, Jon Hassell, Sonic Boom, Richie Hawtin and Vince Clarke that have now achieved “cult” status among fans of modular analogue gear." [Neural]

Composed, recorded and mixed by Yvan Etienne :
Serge Modular, Electronics, Field recordings, Hurdy gurdy.
Recorded at "2 princesses" & EMS/Stockholm.
Produced by Aposiopèse, 2014. Cd. Aposiopèse_10.
Artwork by Claire Willemann.
Layout + Lettering by Nicolas Bardey.

Release page : www.aposiopese.com/pages/feu_y_e.html
Artist website : wyy.free.fr

https://yvanetienne.bandcamp.com/album/feu

https://label-aposiopese.bandcamp.com/album/feu