Bleep

This new release on Raster-Noton reinforces the labels essential role within contemporary experimental electronic music. Shoving the listeners' ears and tolerance immediately in to a tight corner, the French poet Anne-James Chaton meticulously deconstructs the human voice to create one of the labels most challenging albums to date. Using a collection of vocal recordings in which he reads out screeds of lists, names and numbers taken from the every day, he displays and examines them on the dissecting table and reassembles them into stark repetitive arrangements. Through this forced repeated listening, the sibilance becomes percussive, creating the familiar structures of the drum kit, while the words slowly reveal themselves from within the vocal cacophony, creating a work that is both a musical composition as well as a studied examination. Indeed it is difficult listening, but it is a truly experimental work that needs to be experienced.