Sebastien Roux & Bidibop: Urban Field Muzick Reunion
Former band colleagues Sebastien Roux and Vincent Nicolas have been quietly reunited – by releasing their latest album on the same day with the same title and on the same label. As of now, Sebastien Roux' „Urban Field Muzick“ and Vincent Nicolas' err... „Urban Field Muzick“(under the moniker of bidibop) will be available from Field Muzick. Despite this outward harmony and the obvious thematic similarities, the underlying differences are imanent: On the one hand, Sebastien Roux offers listeners one long composition culled from a sound installation, created for the ososphere festival (held in Strasbourg in September of 2006). In the best Musique Concrete tradition, he binds aural impressions from his past three vacations together, establishing a soft and simmering narrative. On the other hand, Vincent Nicolas merely uses field recordings as starting points for sweet trips into a delicious dreamland. His „ACE Train Song“, for example, seems to take a similar route as Roux, but then adds layers of melody and drones to arrive at a gripping piece of new romanticism. Both publications will as always arrive with the trademark heavy cardboard photocover and as red or black 3'' Mini-CDs.
The world of experimental music has certainly not turned any worse since the split of Roux' and Nicolas' former group "un automne à lob-nor" – after all, fans now have the choice between two tasteful releases instead of one. Also, the mechanism at work behind that Post Rock project are now surfacing. Sebastien Roux used nothing but a binaural microphone to document visits to Berlin, Bruxelles, London, Luxembourg, Lyon, Nice, Samoëns (and the mountains around), a train between Lausanne and Geneva among others. The Bidibop release, meanwhile, also features acoustic instruments such as guitar and banjo. Both, however, are marked by an unhurried mood: Sebastien Roux, for example, invited visitors to the Ososphere Festival to „lay on a bed and listen to the piece via two loudspeakers hanging from the celling, like giant headphones.“
Field Muzick have already announced more releases, with Mini-CDs by Logoplasm from Italy, Wolfgang Dorninger from Austria, Gerald Fiebig and Carsten Vollmer from Germany.
Homepage: Field Muzick Records
Homepage: Sebastien Roux
Homepage: Bidibop
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