Label: Critique of Everyday Life

限定150セット、当店大推薦の電子音楽レーベル!!現行の優れたミュージック・コンクレート作家を手掛ける、バルセロナ発Critique of Everyday Life!!作品毎に興味深いテーマを掲げ、主にフィールドレコーディングとアナログシンセを用いた秀逸なミュージック・コンクレートの制作に勤しむ音楽家Emile Zener。インドネシアのホラー、B級映画のセリフ、CIA職員の告白など、VHSから採取した音ネタ&ノイズを使い、緻密なフィードバック・システムにて構築した細部に渡り質の高い音響が飛びだずナイトメア電子音楽。マスタリングはStephan Mathieu。











"One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this." - Omar El Akkad

Sumatra Method sees Émile Zener (otherwise known as Gunnar Haslam) returning to the more explicitly political work he previously focused on with Quaderno Rosso.

An impressionistic portrait of Indonesia in the 1950s and 1960s, Sumatra Method explores one of the hottest theatres of the Cold War through his expansive cybernetic sound collages. As documented in his ongoing YouTube series called "La Synthèse Humaine", Zener approaches the synthesizer like an analog computer, taking cues from ecological and economic systems to create dense feedback systems. In the case of Sumatra Method, primary historical sources are integrated into the network, re-contextualizing B-movie dialogue or confessions from CIA officers into a hallucinatory retelling of Cold War violence and covert operations.

Unstable drones and microscopic noises wrap themselves around VHS static, Indonesian home video horror films, and ghostly radio transmissions. The burst of reactionary violence in “Jakarta Is Coming” and apocalyptic aftermath of “One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” bring history to the present day - implicating us all.

Sumatra Method explores the dialectic space in between "abstract" and "concrete" by presenting the mess of history as it is. It brings you back to the past - to an event we now accept as horror - and asks you to bring that lesson to the present. It is all to easy to reconcile the system that has made you comfortable with its past sins and tell yourself that it cannot happen again.

“Looking at it this way, the major losers of the twentieth century were those who believed too sincerely in the existence of a liberal international order, those who trusted too much in democracy, or too much in what the United States said it supported, rather than what it really supported—what the rich countries said, rather than what they did. That group was annihilated.” - Vincent Bevins