Aarde
Desperate Islands
FORMAT: CDR
LIMITED EDITION: 60
RUNNING TIME: 28:21
CATALOGUE NUMBER: DirtyCDR 037
RELEASE DATE: November 2008
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about
Aarde was formed in 2004 when Guillaume Gargaud met Loïs Laplace and joined forces for some improvised sessions, searching for a deeper exploration into electronic music. During this time collaborating, Guillaume has integrated prepared guitar in his computer music and Loïs has started using Kyma system.
Guillaume Gargaud is a French musician known for guitar work and his love of improvisation. He studied the art of improvisation at IMA, France from 1999-2001. After this Guillaume joined Zwann Ei collective who specialise in sound and image creations and how they relate to the body. In 2007 Guillaume also started participating in the future ethnic comparative research Game Alone Synthesis.
Loïs Laplace was born in 1973, and his first musical outing was at the age of seven, learning classical piano for a few years. Later he was interested in playing popular, folk music and eventually jazz, after playing piano in some band. Things really started to change for Loïs when he discovered the magical sounds of free jazz at the age of twenty. After high school, Loïs worked on merchant ships for several years, going to sea for months, which meant playing less music because he couldn't bring a valuable keyboard in his luggage. But after a while Loïs discovered digital music, and with the purchase of his first computer, he found that it was possible to play with sound with a single laptop, and that was a very convenient feature when he had to navigate at sea!
reviews
"Aarde, being the duo of Lois Laplace and Guillaume Gargaud, already surprised us in a pleasant way with 'A Whole Day' (see Vital Weekly 601) and here return with 'Desperate Islands', a shorter release then before with six pieces continuing their interest in somewhat more crude variations on glitch and micro ambient. There is guitar doodling, sturdy sound processing, a bit more louder things then before and sometimes totally in line with Line, such as 'Looking At The Coast', with its icy, glacier feel and sustained bowed sounds. Like before I think this is a really nice job, well produced and nothing much new. But as said before, sometimes that is not necessary."