U78 Standard Grey “peregrination” : a shrine is much closer than you think…

For A Closer Listen Richard Allen auscultates “peregrination“, reckoning it as an intimate pilgrimage, a kind of sonic temple for revitalization …

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both U78 Standard Grey “peregrination” & U79 Bruno Duplant & David Vélez “des-illusions” are OUT NOW !

In a somewhat disturbed personal context, to be able to present this duo of new titles (the first for 2023, btw) is an even more cathartic & uplifting event……

pls check details + audio-samples by clicking on the images here below
streaming in full on Bandcamp also…

U78 Standard Grey | peregrination CD (special & regular edition)/Digital

Let’s start with a work initially scheduled to appear on Philip Sulidae’s now on hiatus ebullient label, Hemisphäreの空虚…Philip told me it was top notch, and could fit in easily with Unfathomless’ signature, and it did all the way… U78 « peregrination » is doubtless an impacting sensitive work from Standard Grey a.k.a. Christopher Olson, a quite discreet yet experienced fellow and Canadian expatriate living since about 10 years in Nara (Japan) …versed into graphic arts, and of course, experimental and field recording based work, coloured by tape & musique concrète techniques. He’s also the former curator for Muzan editions, and has quite a bunch of releases out on such labels as Falt, Audio.Visuals.Atmosphere, Modern Concern, and Steep Gloss to name but a few… « peregrination »is a plunge into the intangible, and a compendium of his ceaseless wanderings in his past perfused vicinity – a sort of intimate log, holding more than just sketches, but rather elaborate sentient sound narrations taking us by the hand and heart… « peregrination » is activating, it makes old grounds crunch, waking millennial soil spirits…ghost winds roam in the quivering air, while savage cuts rip the glades…much of a procession recounting perhaps an ancient filigree world… Cascades of pulses, bouncing back and forth, hints of disguised distress… Animal instinct, buried streams, a flow of past knowledge running till oblivion… On « peregrination », an erasing breeze pervades and all words fade…
Listening to the smallest of murmurs of a damaged, yet sacred panorama, we step aside, along, then slowly, find a meaning, a purpose… Let yourself glide in, feel the outlines of an immutable landscape full of sense…

order your copy via Paypal at usual price for the regular edition of 180 copies : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 14 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 15 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 16 € (inc.shipping costs)

Special ultra ltd edition of 20 copies only packaged in black-mass tinted 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 + Standard Grey’s unique “kōfun”acrylic monoprint and watercolor on 247 gm Orion Sirius watercolor paper (all different !), signed, numbered, and name red stamped in japanese on the back. Inner sleeve features a a strip of paper mentioning edition number + artist’s name and title… More details forthcoming…

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order your copy via Paypal for the SPECIAL ULTRA LTD edition : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 17 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 18 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 19 € (inc.shipping costs)

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U79  Bruno Duplant & David Vélez | des-illusions CD (special and regular edition)/Digital

Very proud also to be able to give body to U79 Bruno Duplant & David Vélez | des-illusions, a release of moving scope… Continuing to pursue his dedicated singular path, french northerner composer and psychogeographer Bruno Duplant uses his talent to blur the lines and create intense fictional evocations, and teams up again for his 6th collaboration with Colombian sound artist David Vélez who is now endowed with a PHD in sonic art…curator as well of the long term, and persistently absorbing Impulsive Habitat label, David has a keen interest in environmental contextualism, acoustics of food and horticulture, and generally in the way we experience sound (as shown with his latest installation « Bones » created with sine waves & field recordings, inviting us to listen through our skull)… Very anxious about the state of this world, both resort to erosive methods, and diverse tattered instrumentation to shape a questioning musical poem of sweeping grandeur… « des-illusions » unfolds an enduring circling yet gradually decaying chant under ominous clouds… A lonesome organ emits a few warning notes tearing the day apart while we hear shards of voices on a background of slowed down, dragging on tones… Percussive clatter, muffled church bell and other urban signals… A devious threnody seeps in, layers of tactile shifting sounds form dust dreams, stars alight in the backyard… The road is long, partially broken, some haunted marimba draws silver-grey furrows, ginned notes let a ringing charm fuse…Imagine a much less minimal and layered William Basinski passing through an old projector…
« des-illusions » decimates the last rays of hope, but deceptive mood never sounded so gorgeous… Could something precious still exist in the crumbs ?…

order your copy via Paypal at usual price for the regular edition of 170 copies : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 14 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 15 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 16 € (inc.shipping costs)

Special ultra ltd edition of 30 copies only 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.
+ a set of 3 photos on Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper Supreme.
Inner sleeve features a strip of paper mentioning edition number, artist’s name + title (details tbc)…

order your copy via Paypal for the SPECIAL ULTRA LTD edition : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 17 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 18 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 19 € (inc.shipping costs)

Duo Bundle Offer (2CDs) at a discounted price till May 22 only ! 
U79 (regular edition) + U33 David Vélez & Bruno Duplant “Moyens Fantômes”
or U79 (regular edition) + U54 Bruno Duplant & David Vélez “our seasons reverse”

(Belgium) : 24 € (inc.postage – SAVE 4€)
(Europe) : 25 € (inc.postage – SAVE 5€)
(World) : 26 € (inc.postage – SAVE 6€)

Trio Bundle Offer (3CDs) at a discounted price till May 22 only ! 
U79 (regular edition) + U33 David Vélez & Bruno Duplant “Moyens Fantômes” + U54 Bruno Duplant & David Vélez “our seasons reverse”

(Belgium) : 34 € (inc.postage – SAVE 8€)
(Europe) : 35 € (inc.postage – SAVE 10€)
(World) : 36 € (inc.postage – SAVE 12€)

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