imagho - the travelling guild
[fm.m12] seven aural snapshots of a summer in france
french soundartist imagho placed his mics on various locations in france and enrich the environment with some gentle guitar miniatures.
seven spontaneous compositions by imagho and the nature as backing band. green mini CDr with photocover, limited to 50.
tracklisting
- Lavoir (Fage- Lot)
I recorded this one at noon near an old washing place, full of water, with a lot of bees and wasps flying above it. I put the microphones close to the water to catch a maximum of insects sounds. Above me were a lot of boxwoods, with fruits (small capsules containing seeds) falling down all the time. The “knock” you can hear a the beginning of the recording is a fruit falling on a microphone. - Camping(Saint Point- Bourgogne)
I spent a few days in a camping near a lake in Burgundy in august. It was a small, family-like camping, with people with kids. One evening they even had that singer-keyboardist come and sing at the bar. Hopefully we were rather far from him. At night I put my microphones on the edge on the table and recorded this track, playing the softer I could, for not waking my neighbours up. - Eglise (Fage – Lot)
A friend lent me the keys for an unused church. At the hottest of the afternoon, I put my microphones of the nave\’s pavement, and played in the chancel. - Source (Blanhac – Haute Loire)
My family house lies in Blanhac. I decided to record a track near the spring, a place were water drips from a half tree\’s bark. I recorded this tune at night. Mosquitos were my only company. - Terrasse (Lyon – Rhône)
My flat has a terrace, a small sunny spot with small trees. A part of this terrace is covered by our upper neighbour”s balcony. I recorded this tune one evening, when it was raining. - Eglise 2
Same time and place as track 3 – I was sitting in the transept for this one. - Lavoir 2
Same time and place as track 1. A Jay I hadn\’t seen was perched in the boxwoods just above me. I was so deep into my playing that his croaking scared me to death.
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about the record
For years I´ve mixed field recordings with my music – I created music first and checked my field recordings bank to get the one that could fit. Later I began to create music to match the field recordings I loved, trying to catch their mood in my playing. But it was difficult, if not impossible, to feel “as if I were there” when I wrote or played those tunes I eventually decided to go out and record music /in situ/. With two condenser microphones, a portable recorder and a guitar, I am now able to record music that fits perfectly with the environmental sounds. But the mood is still hard to get; That´s why I do not only record outside, I also play only improvised pieces, depending on how I feel at the moment. “The travelling Guild” is a collection of some of these aural snapshots.
JL
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reviews
Vital Weekly 707
From France hails Imagho who travels his country armed with a microphone and a guitar. He places the microphone in such a way that the nature around him becomes an instrument, all along which he tinkles on his guitar. The nature can also be an unused church, or the fruitmarket. Highly elegant stuff here, but even at this limited length of twenty minute are seven tracks well enough. The difference in guitar playing doesn\’t have much variation and also the nature of field recordings is quite similar. Not bad, but not that great either.
FdW
Kulturterrorismus
Frankreich, ehr bekannt für seine harscheren Klänge, offeriert mit Imagho einen ruhigen wie einnehmenden Protagonisten, der mit seiner Verschmelzung aus akustischen Gitarrenlinien und verschiedensten Feldaufnahmen begeistern mag.
“The travelling guild” erschien in einer limitierten Auflage von 50 Exemplaren über das feine Label Field Muzick von Marcus Obst (Dronaement), welches Feldaufnahmen, Drones & sonstiger experimenteller Musik Heimat bietet.Alle Feldaufnahmen, die die Kulissen der Tracks auf dieser Mini CD-R bilden, entstanden an folgenden französischen Lokationen: La Fage (Lot), Saint Point (Burgund), Blanhac (Haute-Loire) & Lyon (Rhône). Der Künstler zeichnete ausschließlich sehr nachvollziehbare Sounds wie die Geräuschkulisse einer Wiese, Campinggetöse, die Raumakustik einer Kirche, Wassergeplätscher menschliches Geschnatter & weitere Töne der Natur auf, um sie mit Akustikgitarrenlinien zu versetzen, welche sehr persönlich wie anmutig erklingen und für eine fast familiäre Stimmung beim Konsum sorgen. Hinter diesem außergewöhnlichen Projekt verbirgt sich JL Prades, der diese Art der Tonkunst seit 1996 kreiert, womit er schon einige Vollzeitpublikationen füllte.
Auf solch spezielle Releases wie “The travelling guild” trifft definitiv die Tatsache zu, dass dich diese Darbietungen entweder ansprechen oder langweilen, weshalb die Benennung eines expliziten Anspieltipps entfällt und der Rat zur ausführlichen Hörprobe geht, um Imagho entweder für sich zu entdecken oder nicht!
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