Label: Akuphone - AKULP1019

大推薦！！個人的に激推ししたいシュルレアリスム的サウンド実験を得意とするプロジェクトThe Dead Mauriacsが、なんと英人気レーベルDiscrepantのアートワーク担当として知られるEvan Crankshawと共作した2022年新作。フランスAkuphoneが出版したCDフォーマットオンリーの音源で、Evan Crankshawが担当したジャケットイメージ通りストレンジなエキゾ世界を作り上げた面白物件。熱帯雨林的フィールドレコーディングを軸に、フォルクローレ、ジャズ、ラテン、エレクトロアコースティックの細々とした音ネタが入り乱れる、陽気な実験精神満載の疑似的民族サウンドスケープ。









Deluxe limited CD in a 350grm vinyl replica gatefold sleeve
Printed on glossy cardboard

Limited to 300ex worldwide

Expedition is a collaboration between sound artist The Dead Mauriacs (aka Olivier Prieur) and collage artist Evan Crankshaw, based on their mutual interest in treating exotica as both a subject and a material. Evan Crankshaw's 2015 collage book, also entitled Expedition, is assembled and collaged by hand from a vast archive of popular exoticist printed materials, and explores recurring motifs in expedition narratives, simultaneously evoking and alienating the exoticist fantasy.

In 2018, the book was interpreted for a live performance at Festival BBMix (Boulognes-Billancourt, France) in collaboration with The Dead Mauriacs, who created a complete exotica-concrète score accompanying projected images of the book & live narration. That collaboration can be heard on this album, an armchair-travel virtual-voyage to the heart of an imagined actual elsewhere, stitched from pieces of narcotizing fabulisms, disturbing actualities, and incomprehensibilities – an interior excursion into the exotic immensity.