Inaugurating a label with a release is an interesting act in itself, which is what Christophe Bailleau, French Multi-disciplinary artist residing in Belgium, has succeeded in doing with Air Resort on Norwegian Soundscaping. In stage terms it is a hard act to follow or perhaps it sets up the direction, tone and standards of Soundscaping’s curatorial approach.
Air resort shimmers in a high register of recurring themes played out on minimal glistening strings, mostly guitar, syth washes of flowing and warbling tone and effect laden palate. Yoshi Island, built around an insistent gleam, repeat and cycle of a tonal sample with effects, brimming in and out of the foreground while synth waves fill the tapestry. Bailleau moves the tone to a minimal tinkling brightness only to interweave it back, dissolving the tone to abstraction and reintroducing it at a quieter pace to exit. Silence Cadeau, reverberates to a similar manner introducing quiet trickling electronic moments, majestic organesque tonal sequences and spatial effect laden moments.
In the center resides collaboration with Canadian Mark Templeton in Small Village on the Hill. Romping pattered purr underplayed by high tonal wavering constancy and layers of sound pastiche approaching, overwhelming and receding back to central theme, eventually moving to a quiet ending guitar and effects overlay. There is also a collaboration with Sebastien Roux , Je Te Laisse Des Messages Sur Ton Décodedeur, that is more densely packed with sound shards and experimental play to the point of description free abstraction suitable to the elevated experimental view.
Christophe Bailleau highly abstracted and dense experimental form here distinct from 2008′s acoustic vocal experimental collabration On Soft Mountains We weave Magic, while remaining high plains orientated, pinnacle sonic experience as sound palate.
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