ANTOINE CHESSEX / DAVE PHILLIPS
Vrhältnis
(Krim Kram) CD $15.00
Originally recorded in Switzerland, filed away, and then reworked, manipulated, layered and decomposed in Zürich and in Thailand 20 years later, the obvious point of entry is musique concrète with strong noise and heavy electronics elements, yet the strange ritual unfolding here possesses a particular distant quality — the creators’ specific gravity and distinct compositional traits concealed behind accumulating densities. Running through both pieces is a haunting vocal presence drawn from the Silvesterchlausen tradition of northeastern Switzerland — an ancient Alpine ritual of winter processions — raw and untethered, arriving from no fixed point, eerie and unmoored. Deep in the forest, spectral voices surface and dissolve.