TRACKLISTING
- Aede Bègue
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- Bande Opaque
- Agapes Bègues
- Première Interprète
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- Fable Bègue
- Seuil d'un Bourg
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PRESS
THE WIRE
« ‘Évohé Bègue' feels agitated, like the frustration of not being able to get the words out, the oneiric sensation of trying to shout but being unable to open your mouth. This is a raw, knotty record whose discomfiting sounds send vibrations through the sympathetic strings of your subconscious. » - Lucy ThravesThe Quietus / Rockfort
« Bégayer draw attention to the illusory nature of recorded music, producing a deliberately rough-edged collage pieced together from multiple sessions and spanning different recording media : (..) they’re stitched together, layered and mixed to create an ambiguous, phantomatic space in which you’re aware of the joins but the spell, somehow, still holds. » - David McKenna
Kalporz (IT)
"'Évohé Bègue' è un baccanale sonoro rapsodico, di assoluta astrazione dalla realtà circostante, alla ricerca di un passato sospeso nell’oblio della lontananza. (...) un groviglio di suoni, rumori, ritmi che sembrano provenire da un tempo antico ma vengono catapultati in una spazialità contemporanea, digitale: materiali sonori ancestrali, popolari assumono nuove forme, diventano dei corpi mutanti."
Bégayer
Évohé Bègue
Release date: 11/03/2024
“Evohé, the song of the bacchants, is multiple and dangerous, its cult is not based on any catechism. Bacchanalian song is about intrusion, it knows neither beginning nor end, and refuses to take the stage that is set for it. Evohé is thus a permanent discipline of aggression of the ritual by the real. A cult of the dangerous object, of time gnawing at flesh, of redemption through intoxication.”
French Chanson, Noise, echoes of music from faraway and long ago, modified radio transistors and other old electronic gear, French song, noisemakers, rumours of ancient and distant music, handmade instruments, modified transistor radios and other old electronic objects, Bégayer is looking for a gesture for those without folklore, for the offspring of this culture of lack, born as much from the twilight of popular habitus as from noisemakers’ howling, from village squares as from the swarming of digital streams, for an unprecedented kind of rapsod-aliens.
The culture of lack can be seen as a cruel joy, an opportunity for communion between the staggering interpretation of ancient gestures and present-day attempts to construct unique variations and overflows.
In this way, each stuttering chant seeks to be a restless and joyful object, whose obstinacy and cruel simplicity offer themselves as manifest objects of agitation, as distances to be encountered, as studies that look towards us.
‘Évohé bègue’ moves towards an open, highly improvised composition, somewhere between the patterns of Morton Feldman, the Nigerian Ogene orchestral bands, the post-punk pleas of New York no-wave, the laughing insolence of northern Italian folk music, the ritual yodelling of the monks of Java, contemporary poetry, improvised music…
Line-up
Loup Uberto : voice, lutes, banjo, bagpipes, feedbacks, sound objets
Alexis Vinéïs : drums, percussion (sati, qraqeb)
Lucas Ravinale : voice, begena, violin, tamburelli, sound objects
Jean-Philippe Curtelin : drums, percussion (surdo, sati, qraqeb)
Etienne Foyer : sound, spatialization
Credits
Recorded in La Fonderie (Le Mans, Sarthe)/ France, August 2021, Poncillon (Moselle) / France August 2022, and Bourg-des-Comptes (Brittany), October 2022
Crossed mixing by Loup Uberto and Etienne Foyer, September to December 2022
Mastering by Etienne Foyer, September 2023
Cover photography and artisanal prints on baryta paper by Loup Uberto
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