Label: Inexhaustible Editions - ie-030

毎度面白いアプローチに取り組むMachinefabriek名義でお馴染みのRutger Zuyderveltが、ベルギーSub Rosa及びマイナーレーベルに多くの音源を残している"ロック"を主体とした実験演奏を行う音楽家Jean De Lacosteと制作した2020年10月発表の共作。全8パートからなる表題曲[Scramblings]のみの収録で、エレキ、アコギ、環境音、オートハープ、一部楽曲ではチェロのゲストを招き、点描的な音の落とし方でボンヤリとした空気のサウンドスケープを構築。Jean De Lacosteの脆いギターがとにかくに美しく、それをRutger Zuyderveltがテクニカルな部分で上手にサポートした素晴らしい相性の一枚。

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Jean D.L.: electric and acoustic guitar, field recordings
Rutger Zuydervelt: electronics, field recordings, autoharp
Francesco Guerri: cello on Scrambling 3

Assembled by Jean D.L. (Ghent, BE) & Rutger Zuydervelt (Rotterdam, NL) in March-July 2020
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Photos by Vincen Beeckman
Graphic design by László Szakács
Produced by László Juhász

Jean De Lacoste (1984) from Ghent, Belgium is simultaneously working as a musician and as a video artist, but the approach he has to organized sounds and organized images seems reversed: his music – either when he plays the guitar or when he uses field recordings – is an imagetic and hazy soundscape, while his musically structured films try to provoke abstract emotions through the titillation of memories and fantasies. He has been working mainly in solo, but has also collaborated with artists such as Alan Courtis, Julia Kent, Sébastien Biset or Sandrine Verstraete. / jeandl.net

Rotterdam-based composer and sound artist Rutger Zuydervelt (1978) started recording under the alias Machinefabriek in 2004. His music combines elements of electro-acoustic experiments, minimalism, field recordings, ambient, drone and noise. The music can be heard as an attempt to create sonic environments for the listener to dwell in. Finding tension in texture, tone and timing, the result can be very minimalistic at first glance, but reveals its depth upon closer listening, because as he says: the devil is in the details. / machinefabriek.nu