We could easily define Sebastien Roux and Sogar as « engineers » of Max/MSP, giving priority to technicality and programming, to emotion and narration. But the two musicians are first of all story tellers, whether in their solo projects or here for this first collaboration. Inventing a pop folk on the edge of the cliff, extrapolating contemporary or acousmatic music in the universes of Oval or Microstoria, each track presents a new aspect of a work based on encounters and individual attempts... Treated strings, natural sounds of the wind or the street, harp rustling or bucolic guitar melody, the music makes noise or listens to the world around. Gusts of desires mixed with microscopic synthetic sounds let music turn into a wild protean piece of work, quiet and sparkling. Space and silence. We get totally sucked into these sonic mechanisms made in turns of metal or ebony. Polished crystalline sounds, blurred and repeated microsounds, sound waves echo like our every day life. The artists develop and intensify things here. The spiky nano-systems of our urban lives... still, these fragrances do have a certain undergrowth tonality.
A stellar compilation featuring shoegaze and indie favorites like Drowse, Midwife, and Mount Eerie benefitting Project Onward in Chicago. Bandcamp New & Notable May 11, 2023
Shards of static & distortion crash against disarmingly beautiful piano & synth melodies on this riveting new record from Carbon and Prose. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 30, 2022
Originally written to accompany a juggling performance, “CM_30” stands on its own as a collection of beautiful electronic compositions. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 22, 2021
Recording as Allenheimer, Atli Bollason dismantles Icelandic pop songs, making illusory new ambient material from the component parts. Bandcamp New & Notable May 12, 2018