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mercredi 23 septembre 2020

REVIEW

 Le second vinyl de la série "De Secretis Naturae" a été commenté sur:

Vital Weekly 1251, avec une belle review:
"In Vital Weekly 1232, HS discussed a 7' by Raphaël Panis, “De Secretis Naturae 1” and now there is the second instalment. Panis is a member of Kinetograve, along with Alain Basso (erstwhile of Dernier Du Culte and Phaeton Dernière Danse). Again both pieces are called 'Fragment',

now 'III' and 'IV' and, again, they are four minutes and thirty-three seconds long. On the Bandcamp page, we find this: "Construction of sound spaces, inspired by listening to Nature. Technically, using only devices built by the composer." A while ago, I reviewed a similar 7" by Shaun Robert (Vital Weekly 1244) and wrote about his interests in fitting musique concrète into the length of a pop song. One could say Raphaël Panis has a similar interest. Within the limited time frame of the format that is 7", he works with crackles, hiss, static charges and some oddly shaped drones on 'Fragment IV'. There is some neat space within in these two pieces and one could think there are some field recordings in use here (birds? A woodpecker? Hard to tell), especially on the second half of 'Fragment IV'. In 'Fragment III', all sorts of drones prevail, of amplified and yet empty spaces. Great stuff, too short, next time an album? (FdW)"

Et a été diffusé sur ToneShift radio:
https://www.mixcloud.com/toneshiftradio/the-toneshift-listening-hour-8/