Super fier de faire la couverture du dernier album de Sylvain Chauveau ! ! ! !
Album : The Complexity Of The Simple
chez FatCat / 130701
https://www.fatcat.online/artists/sylvain-chauveau
https://store.fatcat.online/release/574853-sylvain-chauveau-the-complexity-of-the-simple
Ended Wednesday and welcomed the clear lovely Winter skies of Wednesday after my swim with Des Plumes Dans La Tête by Sylvain Chauveau, the soundtrack to the film of the same name released in 2004 by Les Disques Du Soleil Et De L'Acier.
Sylvain Chauveau (French pronunciation: [silvɛ̃ ʃovo]; born 1971) is an instrumental music and electronic music artist and composer from Bayonne, France. He is committed to the reduction of the ecological impact of the music field.
Background
Sylvain Chauveau was born in Bayonne, France (1971), and currently lives partly in Anglet (France) and in Barcelona (Spain). He is a composer of minimalist music for acoustic instruments and electronics since 1998.
He has played live worldwide but since 2019 he travels by train and bicycle for ecological reasons. - Wikipedia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3ssX-spFeg&list=RDT3ssX-spFeg&start_radio=1
Ended Thursday and welcomed Friday with Un Autre Décembre by Sylvain Chauveau, released by 130701 in 2003.
Composer of very quiet music. Has released records on labels such as FatCat, Sub Rosa, Sonic Pieces, Flau and more. Since 2019, he is also committed to the reduction of the ecological impact of music. - Bandcamp biog
This is Sylvain Chauveau record #3
A quiet chilled start to Friday!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xT9NsjNGYs&list=OLAK5uy_nzd08_ZlPPE-aeGLtHlQMJqxrsgzYF_7E
Ended the week and welcomed the weekend with Ultra-minimal
by Sylvain Chauveau, released on Sonic Pieces in 2024.
Sylvain Chauveau has been releasing quiet and minimal compositions on various labels for more than two decades. ultra-minimal marks his debut for Sonic Pieces and takes the minimal approach even further, centring on reduction and limitation.
The album was recorded live at Café Oto, London in March 2022 - one of Sylvain’s rare solo concerts and the first time he performed publicly with only acoustic instruments; no machines, no recorded sounds have been used, only piano, guitar, harmonium and melodica, played one at the time. While some of the compositions are completely new, others are live versions of previously released pieces which have either been performed close to their original or stripped-down, reduced to a single instrument and partly rearranged...
https://sylvainchauveau.bandcamp.com/album/ultra-minimal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTipfLOu120&list=RDTTipfLOu120&start_radio=1
Ended Thursday and then welcomed Friday after a walk with the Turbo the tomcat with Nocturne impalpable by Sylvain Chauveau, released on Les Disques du Soleil et de l'Acier in 2001.
brantly on Bandcamp:
A beautiful and pensive collection of neo-classical that culminates in the LP's brilliant apex with the 9+ minute 'Nocturne Urbain.' Such a great record for sipping my whiskey, petting the dog and watching the unknown world go by my dirty city window at dusk.
https://sylvainchauveau.bandcamp.com/album/nocturne-impalpable
Ended yesterday and started today after a swim with Le livre noir du capitalism by Sylvain Chauveau, released on 2000 on Noise Museum.
"Sylvain Chauveau's debut album "Le livre noir du capitalisme" is a melancholic milestone – and a precursor of what later would become the Modern Classical genre...
Inspired by John Cage's reflections on silence and Mark Hollis' solo album of the same name, on "Le livre noir du capitalisme" Chauveau assembles contemplative, repetitive piano and string arrangements with electronic sound layers and discreet field recordings to create an other-worldly but seductive Musique Noir. Midway between ambient, jazz and post-rock, Chauveau lays out a new paradigm of electro-acoustic music that functions as much atmospherically as compositionally, and whose parameters keep the boundaries between academic and non-academic music dissolved to this day." White Noise Records
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUV9Sw7Dq74&list=RDbUV9Sw7Dq74&start_radio=1
Welcomed the end of Monday and started Tuesday after my swim with, "Life Without Machines (Flau Records) sees pianist Melaine Dalibert playing 15 pieces by French composer Sylvain Chauveau – each, apparently, based on a Barnett Newman painting and inspired by environmental concerns. The pieces are often quite comically simple – the kind of thing that could be played by a small child, or a cat stepping across a keyboard. But the sparseness can be devastatingly effective: like a series of fragments from a Conlon Nancarrow piece, slowed down and transformed into hypnotic minimalism." Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/apr/17/lea-bertucci-acoustic-shadows-review
"The title of his new album, Life Without Machines, expresses the fact that ourlives are entirely assisted by machines which require a permanent, colossal use of energy...The title₂suggests that this can't last forever.." - Bandcamp
https://flau.bandcamp.com/album/life-without-machines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85CwBJ_b7_U&list=OLAK5uy_njmRBJLFZ-Mvk18Ae5vIDML9OSUWW7m9s&index=14
Un très beau coffret de #SylvainChauveau, disponible chez #MinorityRecords, qui regroupe ses albums Nocturne Impalpable (2001), Un Autre Décembre (2003) et Des Plumes dans la tête (2004) les 2 premiers ayant déjà été réédité en vinyle par le même label, le dernier bénéficiant d'une premire édition vinyle, avec a priori, une photo de #ValéryLorenzo (#Lucievacarme), et il y a même une édition limitée avec une photographie dudit Valéry Lorenzo. Du très beau en somme. C'est par ici :
https://www.minorityrecords.com/en/releases/politique-du-silence
Minority Records is a record label based in Prague dedicated to releasing music of various genres in physical formats, mostly contemporary electronic music overlapping into classical and jazz music. Home to Beata Hlavenková, Bratři Orffové, David Pomahač, Dikolson, DVA, Floex, Hidden Orchestra, Khoiba, Manon Meurt, Post Office, Sylvain Chauveau, Tom Hodge, Tomáš Dvořák and Zabelov Group.
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