This time around, for his sophomore release on Adventurous Music, four audible (re)constructions—under his own name—flutter about with ambient, atmospheric, drone, and what sounds like time-stretched instrumentation.
A surreal ambient electronic, glitch, and noise tetrad
For almost 20 years, sound and visual artist Thierry Arnal has (also) been creating music as Amantra, Fragment, and SEPL. This time around, for his sophomore release on Adventurous Music, four audible (re)constructions—under his own name—flutter about with ambient, atmospheric, drone, and what sounds like time-stretched instrumentation, as demonstrated, in particular, by the opening title piece, which lasts for more than fourteen minutes. It’s in these bizarre auditory passageways that Arnal discovers his sonic signature. While “Brume Reconstruction 02” feels like the original was poured through a sieve to extract its subtle pulses and tones drifting into microscopic granules, “Brume Reconstruction 01” feels like it was split into hundreds of pieces, its raw fibers of glitch and noise oscillating into an entirely new formation. “Brume Reconstruction 03” ends with static and tumultuous industrial-glitch tentacles flickering about as a highlight to these ears. Brume, ultimately, is a surreal ambient electronic, glitch, and noise tetrad worth consuming.
This album comes with a digital booklet with images by Thierry Arnal. All benefits from this release will be donated to Doctors Without Borders.
Brume is available on Adventurous Music. [Bandcamp | Site]
