MARCHETTI LIONEL
PORTRAIT D'UN GLACIER (ALPES, 2173m)
Original Issue: 2001 Ground Fault (GF017) Buy it here!
Margot-meter: 5 moons / 5
01 - Portrait D'Un Glacier (Alpes, 2173m)
Also Lionel Marchetti is part of Margot's mythology! Pure GENIUS!
Using recordings made in France on the Glacier de Tré la Tête, high on the Massif de Mont-blanc, Lionel Marchetti here allows us to accompany him on a quiet (if suspenseful) journey through this snowy, ominous terrain.
Rather than presenting a straight-on field recording of his expedition, he uses small sections from the recordings at a time, and plays them through beautiful, lingering tones and still ambience. Recurring elements (yells, splashes, tools balancing on hardened surfaces) are featured in this 28-minute sonic excursion, and each have a creepy, icy quality.
If Biosphere can capture the aesthetic beauty of a snowy mountain through his recordings, Marchetti has the uncanny ability to capture the flip side of it: the danger, the uncertainty, and the sheer magnitude of it all. Listening to this disc through headphones in a darkened room is a magnificent experience: low rumblings permeate the proceedings, periodically interrupted by dramatic surges in sound that will take your breath away.
Technically faultless, this is a work of stunning magnificence.
Vils M DiSanto
6 comments:
Thanks Margot - wonderful Stuff!
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Richard
Le froid qui réveille l'esprit...
sounds "cool" margot, any similarity to biosphere is welcome - such a splendid manager of sound .. thanks! anthony
Thanks Margot - pretty impressive things!
I Love Marchetti. But I coudn't find the link...
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