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A bit more experimental for DCQ&D, but still a stunning song that sounds like eerie, Lynche-ean jazz musicians from another dimension. Witxes create a very cool eno-scape with some jarring atmospherics and moments that I can best describe as Hammock doing a soundtrack for a horror movie.
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Includes unlimited streaming of Dale Cooper Quartet & the Dictaphones / Witxes split
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Brand new split by Witxes and Dale Cooper Quartet & the Dictaphones.
"Witxes best work to date"
Onda Rock
"These two bands are really on top of their game in this split release, 40 min of high quality experimental music - 8.1/10"
Scene Point Blank
"Uneasy listening at its best"
Textura
"Witxes offer a beautifully mysterious, dangerous and epic piece, which reverberates long fascination"
Vampster Magazin
"Not the stop-gap release it could be for either contributor"
The Arts Desk
"A gloriously oppressing release"
TapeFear
"Witnessing this holy orgy of painful drones and ground shattering pulses, I sincerely wonder what more could you possibly ask for"
Culture is not your friend
"Breathtakingly good!"
De Subjectivisten
"Dans son concept, l'album s'avère à la fois déstabilisant et pourtant totalement passionnant [...]"
new Noise Magazine
"Witxes bring something surprisingly accessible to ambient and drone music something with thundering climaxes underwritten by danceable beats and erupting, post-rock surges"
4ZZZ FM Brisbane
Press release:
This split constitutes an exciting collaboration of these two French experimental/avant-garde/dark jazz acts. In mutual respect and appreciation, both DALE COOPER QUARTET and WITXES selected a track of their split companion and created a fundamental and independent rework of around 20 minutes length.
Based upon parts of Witxes' "The Apparel" -- from the last album "A Fabric of Beliefs" -- and afternoon summer recording sessions, the DALE COOPER QUARTET's "Le Strategie Saint-Frusquin" contains the classic sounds of the Quartet: ambient soundscapes, lazy jazzy rhythms, drone and distorsion guitar and a deep saxophone breath. Being mostly instru- mental, the deep tone of Ronan Mac Erlaine's voice comes to ease the stormy start of the music piece. A grainy and blissful track that resembles music coming through of a 50s radio speaker, letting dark jazz flooding the room.
"Pisces Analogue" is a new WITXES piece based on "Nourrain Quinquet", a track from "Quatorze pièces de menaces" by Dale Cooper Quartet & the Dictaphones. In five movements, the track explores the interstices and cracks of the dark, minimalist, lurking, cycle-evolving original piece. It offers to take a look at some of its nooks, focus on a few of its endless micro-universes and jump from one to another in a flash. Just like swimming in a puzzling dream. If there is anything in common with previous Witxes output, it is a strong sense of motion as well as narration to be seized by the listener. Though this piece uses heavily processed instruments takes from "Nourrain Quinquet" as well as a few typical Witxes field recordings, it is Witxes most synthetic work to date. It was written, recorded and mixed in 3 weeks during summer of 2014 in Lyon and co-produced by Michael Mysak.
credits
released November 28, 2014
LA STRATEGIE SAINT-FRUSQUIN
partly based on "The Apparel"
by Witxes
Sounds, music & layout
Dale Cooper Quartet & the Dictaphones
Summer 2014
Brest, France
PISCES ANALOGUE
partly based on "Nourrain Quinquet"
by Dale Cooper Quartet & the Dictaphones
My collaboration with Pierre Georges Desenfant (Blackthread), electronic improvisation, modular and non modular synthesis, field recordings, no overdubs. Out on Past Inside the Present. Witxes
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we're all beside a wooded creek, laying on this silken mossy chord, listening as leaves tumble down in succession. the pond nearby catches each leaf and we sync our thoughts using the chain of ripples in the water. thanks a lot for this one. recommended for relaxation or when it just gets to be too much out there Ews Nsj