U79 | Bruno Duplant & David Vélez | des-illusions
des-illusions_part I_excerpt
des-illusions_part II_excerpt
format : glass mastered CD ltd to 200 hand numbered copies/Digital
Regular edition of 170 copies packaged in clear vinyl sleeve with folded insert + an additional art card both on 350gr satin paper
Special edition of 30 copies packaged in thick pure white cardboard digisleeve with frame.
it holds a set of 2 double-sided art cards with a different artwork from the regular edition on 350gr satin paper.
+ more to be announced.
Inner sleeve features a strip of paper with artist’s name + title.
release year : 2023
length : 43’02
tracks : 1. part I
2. part II
status : OUT NOW !
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Regular edition
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: info :
Illusion (French), Ilusión (Spanish): To get one’s hopes up Désillusion (French), Desilusión (Spanish): Disappointment.
The genesis of this project is a conversation between Bruno and David about making music in current times of social and environmental crisis. This dialogue prompted an exchange of recordings, found sounds and other sonic material, advancing two pieces. Artistically, Bruno perceives himself as a pessimist acknowledging the presence of this thinking in his abundant music production, which is mainly collaborative. However, David perceives Bruno’s prolific creation and cooperation with other artists as evidence of optimism or at least as an act of resisting pessimism. For both artists, when new artwork is brought forth in the world, it embodies new ideas encouraging experiences and reflections with a potential agency in the same way that the vibration of a tiny drop of water echoes on the place where it falls. In his continuous music production, Bruno detects a necessity; and David connects his own artistic creation with contesting the moment of despair we experience and its effects on our emotional health. In both stances, there is an element of self-care in music making, which in the case of this collaboration is mutual care. When the future for humans looks as gloomy as it does today, getting one’s hopes up emerges as pointless, leading to inevitable disappointment. However, for Bruno and David, artists have no choice other than creating and continuously entangling themselves in this paradox as an act of mitigation.
(The text is the result of a dialogue between the two artists, and was edited by Vélez, 9 March 2023)
: reviews :
Give us our weekly Bruno Duplant, I’d say. Well, almost weekly. In a sheer endless, minimalist way, Duplant presents new works, solo and with others, always connected and always a bit different. The new collaborative effort with David Vélez, for instance, is such a work. Vélez is the one who brings field recordings to the table, or, as said on the cover, “recordings, performances, and found sounds advanced in indoor and outdoor”. And, of course, you’d think that this being on Unfathomless, there is nothing strange there. This label deals with music made with field recordings. However, this new release is a bit different, as Duplant plays “sounds and instruments recorded in the North of France”. Instruments are not something we see a lot in this label’s catalogue. I don’t have an idea what these instruments might be; shimmering electronics, some kind of keyboard and windchimes would be my best guess. These instruments huddle together like a foggy mass of sound, exactly the kind of thing we’d expect (by now, after so much of his work) Duplant to do. Whatever else happens, and I would think this is the input of Vélez, is a random collection of crackles, static, rain and water recordings that is buried just below the surface of the music. It moves and keeps moving, much like the music; there is no goal, dramatic build-up, or fade-out, just these slow-changing masses of sound. Dark is the keyword here, but do I need to mention that? Everything in the musical world of Duplant seems to be dark and atmospheric. The music is all about illusions, just as the title suggests; you can read it as ‘of illusions’ or ‘desillusions’. The latter, of course, accounts for the fact that it is all dark and doomy. I thought this was an excellent release! No desillusion in sight.
Frans de Waard
Vital Weekly
Unfathomless 