Gael Moissonnier - Live At Knot Gallery Mp3

Gael Moissonnier
Live At Knot Gallery
Orila 3" CD

Recorded in Athens, here’s a great set by a French synth-improvisor who stays away from standard conventions, creating a tapestry that ranges from layered blips to raw bubbles of static to clouds of sequences thumb-wrestling for psychedelic superiority. Jumbo.

Byron Coley
Size Matters
The Wire 355
September 2013

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GAEL MOISSONNIER - LIVE AT KNOT GALLERY (3"CDR by Orila)

The name Gael Moissonnier sounds like a new name to me, but he has been a member of Motherfucking, La 6eme Faute and 'the informal ensemble Faux Amis', while also recording music with Pascal Nichols, Ben Morris & Rob Lye and Julien Louvet. He lives in Brussels, but in February of this year he was in Greece where he played his A-100 Modular Analog synthesizer, tapes and field recordings in the Knot Gallery. His recent 'research has been oriented towards 'improvised noise synthesis'' the label writes. Although these twenty-four minutes are quite noisy, I wouldn't call this a noise release per se. It has loud sound on it, ear piercing at times, but in a sort of rhythmic, non linear vein, bouncing up and down and quite layered. On every level of the release there is something happening. It's heavily layered and quite dynamic; it's also quite direct in y'r face. Music that sticks straight away. It has that early vintage synth approach, the 60s sci-fi soundtrack, but it's more chaotic than any such older work, and connects also to the world of industrial music. Sometimes it derails and goes on a bit too long, but overall this was quite good.

(FdW)

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