Label: Hallow Ground HG1807

個人的2019年ベストリリース!!David Tibetがボーカルで参加した超傑作！！ケージやLuc Ferrariと共に活動した経験を持ち、Robert Ashley、Alvin Curran、Charlemagne Palestine、Walter Marchetti、John Oswald、Michael Pisaroら、数多くの巨匠らの作品を演奏してきた名ピアニストとしても知られ、2012年にはCurrent 93にも参加する事となったオランダの白髪ベテラン音楽家Reinier Van Houdt。なんと本作はCurrent 93のボーカルDavid Tibetと共に作り上げた、超濃密なエクスペリメタル音響作品。氏の感覚でセレクトされた音断片、立体的音の配置、そこより創出される底無しに淀んだ世界観、全てが言うことなしのハイレベル。ジャケットイメージ及びクリアヴァイナル重量盤という装丁もハマってます。DLコード付き。マスト。









After the solo album 'PATHS OF THE ERRANT GAZE' in 2016 Reinier van Houdt returns to Hallow Ground with IGITUR CARBON COPIES - an album based on the unfinished gothic tale IGITUR - a collection of texts that eventually was abandoned by its author Stéphane Mallarmé in 1869.
Connecting with Mallarmé's obsessions about chance and destiny, IGITUR CARBON COPIES is the fragmentation of all the roots that ran under its predecessor PATHS OF THE ERRANT GAZE and brings these to a provisional close: guided by David Tibet's voice reading the reworked text we descend through spheres of deserted anthems, disembodied voices, morse signals, crank calls, corroded tapes, radio statics, stones, while doing counting games. Here the acoustical spaces are manifold, blended or shifted in a heartbeat, where far and near, up and down are relative, where Riemann's god is pointless and angels are enjoying their space. Here perception is a vice that constantly hallucinates realities.

Reinier van Houdt started experimenting with taperecorders, radio's and objects at a young age. Later he studied piano at the Liszt-Academy in Budapest & the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He developed a fascination for all matters that defy notation: sound, timing, space, physicality, memory, noise, environment - points beyond composition, interpretation and improvisation. He has built himself an unusual repertoire that consistently resulted from personal quests; from composing with non-musical sources, from collaborations with composers & musicians, from research in archives or from unorthodox studies of classical music. He collaborated with artists like Francisco López, Maria de Alvear, Robert Ashley, Luc Ferrari, Annea Lockwood, Alvin Curran, John Cage, Christian Marclay, Walter Marchetti, Charlemagne Palestine and joined the legendary outsider-collective Current 93 in 2012.