Label: kythibong records

非常に素晴らしい内容です!!もっと評価されるべき孤高の作家の傑作テキスト+コンクレート音源!!社会言語学者、作曲家として活動、キャリアは既に20年を超えるベテランながら、なんと本作が1st LPという寡作な作家Erell Latimier。言語の美的・詩的な側面を探求、特に発話にフォーカスしテキストに音を付けるという創作を続けて来た人物の2025年11月発表のアルバム[Stay Still]。独特の文法による声の断片と長年収集して来たサウンドが、相互作用にて陰影のある抽象音響を作り上げる2種のコンクレート小説。盟友Will Guthrieと、フランスのサウンドアーティストEric Cordierら、素晴らしいメンツも参加。エンボス加工のジャケットも美しい。





A sociolinguist, composer, and writer, Erell Latimier explores the aesthetic, poetic, and political dimensions of language, with a particular focus on speech. In her compositional work, she engages in an infinitely precise process of setting her writings to sound, concentrating on the interaction between fragments of her texts—interpreted by voices—and sounds, whether collected or created, which are assembled into rich and shadowy semantic echoes. These disrupted discourses function as ghostly perspectives, distanced from the narrative or from inner monologues.
Through these two pieces of concrete fiction, Erell Latimier's voice reveals glimpses of tragic destinies, resonating with alienation, confinement, suffering, resignation, abandonment, and death. The outbursts of psychological violence and images of abused or lifeless bodies, as evoked by the narrator, find immediate resonance in the organic distortions, funereal refrains, and spectral incantations. When intelligibility fades, it gives way to an abstract darkness that speaks to all our senses, bordering on the visceral shiver.
Fueled by the frictions and collisions between characters and the sonic embodiments that crush, swallow, and regurgitate them, the narrative takes shape and meaning through its very deconstruction—sometimes challenging the reliability of the narrators themselves.
In these compositions, the unique sonic grammar instilled by Erell Latimier generates a profoundly sensitive listening context, where damaged speech, sonic murmurs, and gutted frequencies gradually offer the listener the keys to understanding. Through omissions, jolts, repetitions, verbal interference, and suffocating vortexes, we appropriate these fragments of intimate sonic fictions by projecting our own dramatic sense onto them.
Evoking the most inhabited vocal works of Robert Ashley, the Dadaist Hörspiel experiments of early Nurse With Wound, and the literate dark drones of Golem Mécanique, Erell Latimier’s noir works never lose sight of the text. They transcend and interrogate speech through a profoundly sensitive and moving sonic rendering.