Retour aux îles motorisées / Back to the motorized islands, by The Dead Mauriacs

Retour aux îles motorisées / Back to the motorized islands

by The Dead Mauriacs

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	1.	Partie 1 22:31
	2.	Partie 2 19:52

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Retour aux îles motorisées / Back to the motorized islands

Partie 1:
01. Entrée dans le chenal / Entering the channel
02. Première euphorie / First euphoria
03. Nostalgie de la terre ferme / Nostalgia for the mainland
04. Coucher de soleil accéléré / Accelerated sunset
05. Volière exotique, sentiments esquissés / Exotic aviary, feelings sketched
06. Pourparlers et messes basses / Talks and low masses
07. Révélations cinématographiques / Cinematic revelations
08. Le jardin d’eau salée / The salt water garden
09. Combat d’orteils / Toe fight
10. Seconde volière, révélation des secrets / Second aviary, revelation of secrets
11. Malaise de sable blanc / White sand discomfort
12. La mare du jardin japonais / The pond in the Japanese garden
13. Émois natatoires / Swimming Emotions
14. Rotation de la serre subtropicale / Rotation of the subtropical greenhouse
15. Le souper des carpes / The carp supper
16. Machinerie et artifices / Machinery and fireworks
17. Natation synchronisée, mambo libre / Synchronized swimming, free mambo

Partie 2:
18. Radio HMD / HMD Radio
19. Rafraichissements et tonics / Refreshments and tonics
20. L’aquarium du Mocambo – Front de mer / The Mocambo Aquarium - Waterfront
21. L’aquarium du Mocambo – Arrière salle / The Mocambo Aquarium - Back room
22. Les noyés célèbres / The famous drowned
23. Seconde euphorie / Second euphoria
24. Délices Island / Delight Island
25. Romance aqueuse / Watery romance
26. Moustaches transatlantiques – embruns et gomina / Transatlantic mustaches - sea spray and gomina
27. Héroïsme du glaçon / Heroism of the ice cube
28. Progression du cavalier espagnol / Progression of the Spanish rider
29. Suspense aux yeux clos / Suspense with closed eyes
30. La fin des îles – nouvelle Ophélie / The end of the islands - new Ophelia

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released September 1, 2023

Olivier Prieur: Ableton Live, midi keyboards, real and fake instruments, larsen, field recordings, music. 2022.
℗ & © 2023 zappak zappak-006

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Olivier Prieur, who lives in France, is energetically engaged in creative activities under the name of The Dead Mauriacs. He describes his own musicality with the term 'Concrete Exotica', and as far as his previous works, this work emphasizes that direction in particular.
There are 30 parts between the two songs on this album, and it's like putting your head into a jukebox full of Mondo movies’ worlds around the '40s to the '60s. Sometimes cut-up, other times seamlessly, exotic sound scenes switch dizzyingly. Once you start listening, it will be waiting for a sound adventure like you've never tasted before.

Also, in this CD it is included a short story written in English and French by the author himself called "Rapport Prospectif / Prospective Report".
*A PDF file is enclosed in the download folder for those who purchased the digital album.

フランス在住のOlivier Prieurは、The Dead Mauriacsという名義のもと精力的に創作活動をおこなっている。彼は’Concrete Exotica’という言葉で自身の音楽性を説明しており、これまでの彼のなかでも、本作は特にその方向性が強調された作品に仕上がっている。
収録されている2曲のなかには30にわたる細かいパートがあり、それらはまるで50年代や60年代頃のモンド映画の世界が詰め込まれたジュークボックスに頭をつっこんでみたかのよう。あるときにはカットアップで、またあるときにはシームレスに、目まぐるしくエキゾチックな音が切り替わっていく。一度再生すれば、味わったことのないような音の冒険が待っていることだろう。

また、本作CDには「Rapport Prospectif / Prospective Report」という、作家自身による短編小説(英/仏併記)が封入されている。
※デジタルアルバムを購入された方のダウンロードフォルダにはPDFファイルが同封されており、そこから読むことができます。

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The Dead Mauriacs (Olivier Prieur)
Born in 1971, Olivier Prieur is a musician and visual artist working under the pseudonym The Dead Mauriacs.
He co-founded L'Art Pénultième / EPAC in the mid-1990s, specialising in the production of object books, artists' books and experimental sound objects. He published To Be Ex-dream by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge in French for the first time in 1997, and founded the magazines Le Paradis in 1995 (Jocelin, Bruno Richard, Gilles Berquet, Mïrka Lugosi, Elizabeth Prouvost, Romain Slocombe, Oliver Allemane, Anne Van Der Linden, Placid...) and, in 2015, Un Cahier de curiosités, featuring rare texts (Jean Lorrain, J. G. Ballard, Theo Van Doesburg, Victor Vasarely) and works by visual artists (Rainier Lericolais, Charles Rousselin, Jan Warnke, Vincent Epplay, Roxane Borujerdi...).
Since 2009, The Dead Mauriacs have made some forty recordings, published by Geräuschmanufaktur, NPH, Discrepant, The Tapeworm, Akuphone, Traced Object, Haemoccult Recordings, Calax, Sublime Retreat and others.
The Dead Mauriacs’ music is a journey into post-industrial landscapes, non-sensical hörspiel, concrete exotica, Ballardian dystopia: a joyful nightmare. It is Olivier Prieur’s art and music project – primarily a solo act, but occasionally a collective with the addition of nice and lovely people such as Susan Matthews, Vincent Domeyne, Thorsten Soltau, Jan Warnke and Michael Esposito.

www.thedeadmauriacs.com
thedeadmauriacs.bandcamp.com

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