Nicolas Cueille // Curiositi LP

フランスの実験エレクトロニック・ポップ作家Nicolas Cueilleが、2024年4月に同国実験／ストレンジビーツレーベルunjenesaisquoiからリリースしたレコードです。

モジュラーや声を用いた実験エレクトロニック・ポップ9曲を収録。DLコード付属。

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Includes DL code. 12" black vinyl. Edition of 300. 

Tracklist:

1. Trabadurra Aespecial 02:36
2. Discombobulated 03:09
3. Omitid Habitat 03:12
4. Form id Able ob Stacle 03:26
5. Grand Finale 01:47
6. Toppo Loggi 03:34
7. Otomat 02:48
8. Fabricatta Lore 03:43
9. Opticca 06:04

Text by Éric Pasquereau via unjenesaisquoi:

"« Curiositi » is the work of Nicolas Cueille, French composer and multi-instrumentalist.

Over the last fifteen years, he has been very active dabbler in music notably as a musician: Pyjamarama, La Colonie De Vacances to name very few and as the co-founder of Presque Tout, an ongoing net archive of sonic landscapes from all around the world.

Using digital and analog synths, field recordings and his voice, he expands new horizons on his first album under his birth name.
The first moves are refined then manipulations scrape and wobble like an orchestra tuning up. Bleep and bloops from synthesizers appear raw and uncut to a soft crooning voice; picture Chet Baker strolling through magnetic fields, singing « This is such a cozy place. Why would you leave? Where would you go? »

Gradually, some kind of soul searching « down n’ b » unravels. Expansive and somewhat metaphysical, the record skips from digital treatments to natural soundscapes in a few heartbeats. Nicolas Cueille leads us on a spirited and creative path playing with technology and our/his perception of reality. It bleeds right on to the cover of the album representing an unknown matter that could be digital art and might as well be some rare natural landscape.
Astounding in their architecture and form, each of the 9 musical pieces of this album, abound: loops like mantras, like a body slowly mutating, full of melodic outbursts, accidental arrhythmia, garden crickets and haikus.

As for as name-dropping goes, “Curiositi” is Brian Eno and Moondog getting together to write the soundtrack to a new season of “Scavengers Reign”. Some will find nods to Laurie Spiegel or Haruomi Hosono, will probably want to watch scenes from « 2001 A Space Odyssey» and cuddle up with « Keyboard Fantasies » by Beverly Glen Copeland."

Artist : Nicolas Cueille

Label : unjenesaisquoi

CAT No: UJNSQ-044