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Le temps lent

by Enfant Magique

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Les aurores 03:37
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Les départs 06:01
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Courtepointe 01:07
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Au lit 02:31
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about

Slowing down time with Eric Gingras

The simple acoustic guitar plucks out a lulling back-and-forth, accompanying a voice that seems to arrive from another, far-off era. Elsewhere, the guitar moves around in the background, repetitive and drawn-out. But here, alone, it takes the time to find its rightful place, much like the deceptive simplicity of a hand-made quilt. This humbly whimsical patchwork seeks out form, succeeds, and is reunited with the voice. Articulate and elastic, it sometimes crisscrosses, sometimes circumnavigates this landscape of song both subtle and rich. Its clear lines of flight point to a remote village and its recent arrivals, a motley crew of hybrid things and beings: woolly sheep, beat-up robots, small synthetic drums, minimalist jaw harps, obsessive alarms, light footsteps on a gravel path, a few propellers, many layers of slow time.

The sea’s waves break against this shoreline where our mutant from the 1970s seems to have washed up. He isn’t looking for a fight, and he isn’t looking to show off. However, as the custodian of utopian leftovers from an open agreement between artifice and artful making, he is clever and skillful in a thousand and one little ways. His voice is stubbornly discreet, but also able to take flight, carrying with it words devoid of preciosity and over-categorization. This is a voice that prefers attention to affectation. Bresson-like, it knows how to recount when recounting is needed, articulating both quivering fatigue and deep doubt.

Joined now by others, the mutant feels supported, loved. He withdraws, and an assertive, childlike voice moves into the foreground. The mutant accompanies, discreet but fully present. And what better medium for this finely woven poetry and play of childhood’s expression, both clumsy and bold.

- Anne Lardeux (translated from French by Simon Brown)

Anne Lardeux supports non-professional gestures carried by a formal desire, with the means at hand. Right now, she can be found at Club Ami, a therapeutic center, but also in the micro band Prinkipissa with Marie. Her first novel is due late spring of 2021.

credits

released February 5, 2021

Eric Gingras - words and music
except Les départs based on a poem by Adonis and Le pit de roches en feu written by Simone Pelletier

Marie-Douce St-Jacques - Voice on les Aurores and Je te suis parti
James Schidlowsky - Voice on Le temps lent, Jew's harp on Les départs and electronics on What about tomorrow.
Simone Pelletier - Voice on Le pit de roches en feu

Recorded and mixed at home [Montréal, Canada] during winter 2019.
Mastering at Grey Market Studio by Harris Newman

Marie-Douce St-Jacques - artwork, design and riso print

Thank you Soren and Sébastien

More tapes available at: uraudiovisual.bandcamp.com

To order vinyl: tresornational.ca

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Enfant Magique Montréal, Québec

Each of his albums is a separate musical dimension floating outside the physical world, new bridges built between his heart, his mind, and listeners’ hearts and minds. Through sublimation, he composes fragile, atmospheric songs that play out under a changing sky, sometimes disquieting autobiographical fragments that breath cosmic air. How does one go about creating a tree-trunk with a toothpick? ... more

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