David Fenech & Klimperei // Rainbow de Nuit LP

過去にBlackest Ever BlackやSub Rosaなどからも作品を発表しているフランスのアウトサイダー作家David FenechとKlimpereiが、2021年1月にMarionetteからリリースした共作レコードです。

バンジョーやギター、フルート、ピアニカといった楽器はもちろん、ストロー、トランシーバー、拾い物などを用いて制作した、聴いたことはないのにどこか懐かしい摩訶不思議な音楽10曲を収録。

頭にこびりついて思わず口ずさんでしまいそうになる、中毒性の高いアブない一枚です。180g重量盤。DLコード付属。

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12" black vinyl.

Tracklist:

1. Tarzan en Tasmanie 02:14
2. Pocarina 01:40
3. Septième Ciel 03:52
4. Rugit Le Coeur 04:17
5. Rainbow de Nuit 04:02
6. Levy Attend 04:55
7. Chevalier Gambette 01:23
8. Un Cercueil à Deux Places 03:05
9. Eno Ennio 02:29
10. Madrigal for Lola 02:27

Text by Marionette:

"Maestro melodist Christophe Petchanatz (aka Klimperei) and all around music fanatic David Fenech engage remotely in a repetitive exchange of recordings and overdubs on their debut album titled ‘Rainbow de Nuit’, sporadically spanning over the last decade. Evocations of experimental and improvised jazz, chansonesque songs, bluesy folk, and outsider music undulate harmoniously across the record. From music boxes and walkie-talkies down to plastic straws, plucking various stringed instruments such as the charrango and banjo, kazoos and snake-charmer ocarina and flutes, all the way through the sweet accordion and melodica, found and traditional tuned percussion - there is far from a shortage of sound sources on this freakishly inviting record. What germinates as an imaginative and emotional chord progression played by Klimperei, evolves with Fenech layering additional recordings, which would then find their way back home to Klimperei yet again, and so on, and so forth. This recursive compositional and improvisational loop, combined with Fenech’s musique-concrete-like mixing and editing techniques, transforms the acoustic recordings by way of compression, saturation, and reverberation or simple pitch changes - resulting in the duo’s recordings seemingly sound like they may very well be an octet in real time. While the majority of the recordings have been ping-ponged remotely, David and Christophe unite under one roof to record the closing track of the album.

The pieces presented on ‘Rainbow de Nuit’ treat the ears to a carousel ride waltzing through a multiverse made up of surrealist puppet theaters, dramatic film noir act changes, and a mosaic of polyphonic instruments and toys alike. In other words, a score to a fable brought to life with haunting yet charming melodies and occasional hallucinatory voices reminiscent of laughter and infantile epiphanies which we hear on Tarzan en Tasmanie and Madrigal for Lola. This is taken a step further by Fenech, to a brief libretto of incomprehensible tongues on Pocarina. Amid the mysterious and dark (Septième Ciel and Rugit Le Coeur) also lies tender and simple compositions (Rainbow de Nuit and Chevalier Gambette), murky suspenseful melancholy (Levy Attend and Eno Ennio), and casually slipping into pensive psychedelic backdrops (Un Cercueil à Deux Places) - forming a colorful blend of sounds. A world of echoes. A tale of tales. One persistent earworm that you’ll likely be whistling and humming along to on a first listen. "

artist : David Fenech & Klimperei

label : Marionette

CAT No : Marionette15LP