Piercing electronics and cinematic sonic extensions are folded into colossal forms across Jérôme Chassagnard‘s Hora Fugit, an 11-track suite that constantly contracts and expands.
Preserving a deep affinity for expressive atmospheric shifts
Piercing electronics and cinematic sonic extensions are folded into colossal forms across Jérôme Chassagnard‘s Hora Fugit, an 11-track suite that constantly contracts and expands. Formerly one half of Southern France’s musical force Ab Ovo (with Régis Baillet), Chassagnard has since pursued an experimental path of his own, preserving a deep affinity for expressive atmospheric shifts, industrial electronic interplay, and finely sculpted emotive soundtracks.
Hora Fugit stands as a natural continuation of everything gathered along his journey, channeling waves of abstract momentum and unearthed melodic strands through every composition, weaving evolving vocal slivers, scorched beats, and weighty rhythmic frameworks.
Highlights emerge in countless directions: “Timeless Travelers III” opens passageways with melancholic industrial and celestial motifs immersed in translucent ivory keys and violin strings; “Urban Sand (Spring Version)” unfolds through shuffling data-processing glitch fragments; “Octopus” twists into broken-beat IDM mechanics; “She Is Behind (Full Moon Version)” descends through dark ambient industrial ruptures; “Floating Cities” blurs the senses with its downtempo broken beat sound-scraping slant; “Behavior” surges with modular breakbeat pulsars; and “UFO” dissolves into glitch-driven acrobatics. As reflected in Stefan Alt‘s cover artwork, Hora Fugit sends its cinematic electronics branching outward into sprawling, abrasive limbs that stretch across time and space.
Hora Fugit is available on Hymen. [Bandcamp]
