A wonderful and highly humorous piece by the always brilliant and ever insightful Alan Lockett for Lend Me Your Ears.
“There’s no thinning at the front or diminishing presence in the surface of Pascal Savy’s Receding, despite the title, and for all the fancy philo-: Savy speaks of ‘some psychological and existential questions which I try to convey below the surface of music,’ which is all fine and chin-strokingly brow-furrowingly dandy, but is there not perhaps a hint of more to hum in the bathtub than previously?…”
Read the rest over at LMYE
Published by Tokafi, March 2012
Gathering sounds from far and wide, Pascal Savy was not limited by the constraints of the physical world for the making of his new EP Receding. Forming the basis of his latest work is piano performed and recorded in Ringstead Windmill in Norfolk UK. And if a piano in a windmill seems out of context, Savy goes further by removing the body of the sound to leave only the shell of what was once recognisable. Receding has been released on the Twisted Trees label and is a combination of field recordings, instrumental and electronically manipulated sounds. It explores deterritorialisation, a Deleuze and Guattari concept that has heavily influenced Savy in recent years. Through composition and technique, Savy interprets and explores his thoughts on removing the heart of an idea or a form, to undo what has been done. By discarding the recognisable form of the piano or guitar, he is effectively deterritorialising sound. He explores the subsequent philosophies of reterritorialisation by cross-pollinating both the newly discovered sounds and remnants of the original recordings into other compositions. Read the rest of this entry »
Ed Hamilton has written a wonderful review for Futuresequence – here is an excerpt: “There is a desolate, nostalgic sensibility to these recordings, created by more than just an awareness of their source location. By removing the principle source from its original environment, and carefully reconstructing the sonic traces that remained, Pascal has managed to reinforce a far greater sense of place than the original recordings could ever have managed; a personal, tangible place.”
Read the rest of the review over at FutureSequence.
Two great reviews of ‘Receding’ by Nils Quak and Andy Gillham. Some fascinating insights into my own music, triggering ideas for future projects.
“Stuttering away like some old Shuttle 358 track, it has an introspect quality that it absolutely soozing.”
Read the rest of the review over at resonant strata
“…as if the machines and sound sources have been left overnight to work things out for themselves following a large dose of psilocybin.”
Read the rest of the review over at fluid radio
