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Testimony to the first encounter of the trio during a concert given at the cave12 on 28.10.2020, on the same evening of the new Covid announcements which brought on a re-confinement in France, and even to a six-month-long shutdown of cultural places in Switzerland. A concert from which we emerged staggering and with burning ears due to the ongoing crisis surrounding us.
A masterful sonic performance.
Before silence.
Drawing from the dense and intense sound material of the evening, Francisco Meirino carried out a work of mixing and cutting, thus releasing an account of it, conceived for vinyl support and domestic use, an auditory result with a fascinating tension/frame.
Swirling field recordings, urban/mechanical sounds, ghostly radio, cannibal revoxian magnetic tape, unrecognizable saxophone chants from hell, and synthesizer manipulations, intermingle and merge into a sonic flow of pure permanent tension. An uncompromising and hallucinating sound journey of the very first order. A captivating back-and-forth, rich and spiraling between different levels of listening, filled with recognizable or unrecognizable sound materials and disturbing textures à la perfectly mastered dynamics, on a knife edge of abyss & time.
And with, on the album, a simply gargantuan, corrosive, and overwhelming B-side!
released April 24, 2022
C12 A 08
Antoine Chessex: Tenor saxophone, amplifier, electronics
Francisco Meirino: Modular synthesizer, contact microphone, and transducer
Jérôme Noetinger: Revox B77, electronics
Live recording on 28.10.2020 at cave12
Sound engineering: Benjamin Ephise
Editing and mastering: Francisco Meirino
Cut: Frédéric Alstadt at Studio Angström
Cover design: Xavier Robel + David Mamie
Francisco Meirino's music explores the tension between programmable material and the potential for its
failure.
His work combines intricate textures, sonic precision, wide spatial panning and is fascinating by its physical intensity and detail precision.
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