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zym002/Diatribes - Mémoires Disséquées/Dissected Memories

14 Oct 2005

Diatribes is an improvisation project formed by two jazz musicians, drummer Cyril Bondi and saxophonist Gael Riondel, and D'Incise, an electronic producer focused on sound designing.
The meeting of these musicians has created a hybrid between two different conceptions of experimentation in music; free jazz and manipulation of cold electronic sounds.
This concept seems to be quite simple since you listen to it: digital noise added to nervous drumming improvisation, shrill sax matched with a flood of saturated frequencies, real-time sampling and effects manipulation over intricated instrumental patterns. Definitely not simple.
Five tracks that split your perception of sound in a "diatribe" between electronics and analogics where you'll find difficult to distinguish one from another in an active listening/perception and interpretation of music.
This is what you'll find through this five brief, but intensive, excerpts taken from two different improvisation sessions. Furthermore at the end of the ep there's a remix made by the electronic mind of the project, D'incise, who immerses instrumental samples in a colder ambient mood to take the listener one step further in the wintry world of Diatribes.
Definitely not simple.