An extraordinary release by the very master of reductionist minimalist electronic music Richard Chartier once again proves us that he’s the grand monk of the holy temple of drones. Simple yet insanely impactful. Less is more. Always.
A delicate play with gentle tones and piercing particles
Minimalist music is a natural reaction to what is happening in the world. Individual strives to find peace in its everyday life. Even unconsciously he feels the pressure. Media overwhelmed with digital trash, tons of hidden advertisement that develop unwanted desires, etc. Ambient music is like a post-modernistic meditation. No beats, no rhythms. Nothing to hold on to. Tracks build up around silence, ultra tones and sounds on the edge of hearing. Headphones can easily serve a purpose of temples for deep and relaxing meditations. Some might say music like this can be created easily. It sounds so simple. That might be true to some extend yet not all artists can press the needed buttons to actually make the “diving” effect happen.
As I’ve been following Richard’s work for quite some time—I noticed a definite blueprint kind of vibe that gives his works this magic, almost ether feel. A delicate play with gentle tones and piercing particles that dance in a hypnotizing manner. As we step into this land of interreferences—the very first sound already feels like it’s coming from the very back of your consciousness. You won’t experience those in real life but at the same time they feel so natural as if your inner self is listening to them. It has always been pursuing this existence through a sound palette like this. Lush and soothing. Drowned in drones and myriad in nature. We continue to levitate in this place. Blindfolded. Like walking completely senseless through radium ashes as we find ourselves almost in the middle of “interreference.6.” The sub waves are closing in and you’re starting to feel the low pulsation going deeper into your subconsciousness. A distant filtered texture is side chained with vibrating drones. Another monsoon of static flies over your head like an avalanche. You feel safe. Probably you don’t feel as yourself anymore with all the psychic manipulations Chartier did to your sound perception. Still it feels right. You feel calm as we’re almost half way into the release.
A grey scent with halothane dust…
“interreference.7” is something different. You suddenly feel a change—like a purification nova. Cleansing and steady. Eons of noises go throughout and you suddenly obtain a certain relief. As if you were brought from some kind of a trance into reality. But that’s not how you imagined it would sound like, right? You drift away with the decay of the final drone in this piece as your mind morphs your senses. Like an AI, you adapt and realign with “interreference.5.” This landscape has no particular form but for some reason you feel that it has a taste and smell. Although the taste feels more like a smell and vice-versa. A grey scent with halothane dust. Visions of abstract come across you as phantoms. They fade in and out so that you could feel present and needed. They speak to you in the language of decay. It seems like they worship you. And you worship them. As they begin to whisper more gently—a deep low kick suddenly pulls you in itself as we’re closing on “interreference.1.” Infrared shadows evoke a strange feel of presence. Like a chamber with no one inside yet you feel the mass of something gravitating you. Slowly bit by bit the last pieces of your former self is being consumed by this ink. Viscosity of the texture has now become one with you. You thought you had already passed beyond these halogen halls but it’s only the exodus to the land of the drone.
An extraordinary release by the very master of reductionist minimalist electronic music Richard Chartier once again proves us that he’s the grand monk of the holy temple of drones. Simple yet insanely impactful. Less is more. Always.
Interreferences is available on Room40. [Bandcamp]
