Label: Fougere

ベテラン作家のアンソロジー的2CD!!90年代より活動を継続、作曲家兼フィルムメーカーとして動き世界中を様々な形でツアーしたTZii。フランスのレーベルFougereが構想〜制作までを手掛けた、全25トラック、2CDに及ぶ初のアンソロジー音源集[Chorologie I]。インダストリアル文化、アニミズム、サイケデリア、映画的アプローチと、実に多彩なビジョンを持つ人物がゆえその全貌を掴むのが難しい作家であり、本作は氏の活動を知る上でも非常に重要な位置の作品。フランス/英語の12ページブックレットが付属。









Comes in digipak with 12 pages booklet with notes in french and English.

More than 20 years have passed since the inaugural reference on Night On Earth and the first volume of the "Chorologie" series, an anthology imagined by the Fougère label to celebrate the creative experiences of a sound explorer determined to abolish borders. Two decades during which Tzii has never ceased to defy the established rules or to invent his own, and above all to do a lot with a little by pushing sounds and senses into limited states.

In 25 tracks spread over two discs echoing each other, "Chorologie I" introduces us to the plurality of Tzii's ever-expanding body of work, marked by the notions of itinerancy and displacement, in the geographical sense as much as in the introspective sense, in close connection with his practice as a nomadic sound and image recorder. It pays homage to the intellectual and spiritual fundamentals that guide his career: refusal of dogmas and loyalty to the underground, industrial culture and astral cult, animism and psychedelia, the cinematographic approach and de-centered vision of an artist who has been on the road since he came to life, with an emphasis on Africa. During more than 2h30, "Chorologie I" unfolds a dense canvas of waves with a unique sensibility, beyond the variety of approaches proposed - but almost always recognizable among a thousand - by Tzii throughout the first part of his career. It finally reveals itself as a perilous initiatory one-way journey on the tracks of the most ardent of solar travellers.

S.Y.D