VARIOUS TRACKS
are not the best, but all in all, it is well worth listening. Somewhere
between ambient and spacey funk, and even some guitar solos (very
short, rest assured!). Of course, i used
Ableton Live to loop myself,
making my own (complex) setup of delays (echoes) repeating
endlessly, and then fading out, while i am playing another non-looped
guitar part on top of it. This setup was still to be perfected at this
time, which means that i was not able to undo anything if i would
make a mistake when looping: it would stay in the loop for good.
That's why some good moments sometimes go away too quickly: i
make a mistake on a beautiful loop and i have to "make it up"
somehow, which forces me to move to another musical scene. I have
many recorded improvisations like this, some sounding better, but this
one got selected here because it goes ininterrupted for a rather long
time, without an obvious mistake or a very bad idea.
Also, i really enjoyed it!
1-Mirror Room Session Part1    2-Mirror Room Session Part2   
3-Luang Phrabang    4-Mirage    5-Looping Loopong Loopang #1
6-Looping Loopong Loopang #2    7-Looping Loopong Loopang #3
8-Looping Loopong Loopang #4    9-Looping Loopong Loopang #5
MIRROR ROOM SESSION
A pure guitar live looping
improvisation (43mn) from
2005, with no other
instruments whatsoever.
Very live... and hence very
unperfect, as it happens
often with improvisation.
The best moments are too
short and the long moments
LUANG PHRABANG
A sound poem made in an
old style radiophonic way,
with various field recording
with no relation to each
other, and some haunting
gibbon sample repeating
endlessly and variating
subtlely. Sweaty erotic
sunset in Laos, where i
have unfortunately even never been... Pure postcard from 1995...
MIRAGE
What happens when you just
fool around leisurely with
your instrument (! i mean
guitar, of course...)
and you forget that a D.A.T
tape recorder is running
silently in the back of the
room, recording everything
for hours. Just guitar and a
bottleneck, some t.h.c. support, and a totally free mind, for a little
ambient guitar piece from 1997 with that typical "my heart flies like an
eagle in the sky" kind of feeling...
LOOPING LOOPONG LOOPANG
My first "official" live looping
attempt on guitar!
1998, in New York, where i
was about to live for three
years. The title sounds kind
of ridiculous now, but i
thought it was damn cool at
that time, being blown away
by live looping, using
nothing but two ping pong delays, one short, one long. And a ring
modulator effect for that typical bell like sound that fits so well to
guitar. Dynamics and sound quality in general are pretty bad, but i still
do love some moments of it.
if you feel like it :
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