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Sistere

by Diatribes

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	1.	Tabi-tabi 22:27	info	buy track
	2.	Utsara-utsara 24:01	info	buy track

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„The two pieces are played live, over a background recording, which is a technic we used also on the previous pieces, creating doubt of perception. We wanted to get back to "real" instruments and work with their natural sound, but still keep them in an electroacoustic field of listening and making audible very small changes in the sounds.“

Two years after the electroacoustic deconstruction of 70’s Jamaican dub, the Swiss duo D’incise & Cyril Bondi again extended the understanding of their key concept of rational rituality. Their lively cooperation diverged since 2014 into own solo and collaborative projects (lately with Stefan Thut or Cristian Alvear). Besides, they curate their own label INSUB, within which they lead the Insub Meta Orchestra and try to bring experimental music to Geneva.

From their formation Diatribes travelled throughout the European improvisation scene, and in 2013 they immersed into exploration of concept of sterile repetition and constant rhythm, which they shaped through various creative and experimental approaches (field recordings, electroacoustic composition, detailed textures, febrile pulses, acoustic hyper-sensibility). Augustus (2013, INSUB) marked a radical progress from free improvisation towards recognizable sonic aspects, compositions with characteristic logic, precisely targeted energy and subtle uncovering of sound details. Followed by A New Castle (2014, caduc.) with instructions for interpretation such as: „The piece consists of segments of a regular pulse in 2/1 at about 144BPM played with one soft mallet on a cymbal. Each player chooses 7 sounds. The chosen sounds should be constant dynamic textures or pitches.“

All of this signs and composition techniques resulted in the latest album Sistere, which contains two tracks Tabi-tabi (side A) and Utsara-utsara (side B). With Sistere Diatribes return to natural sonority and resonance of real instruments such as cymbal, shakers, bells, bass drum and snare drums. Tabi-tabi is a track of numerous combinations, linear layering of rhythmical relationships between shakers and bells, which are being endlessly discovered and reinvented or are disappearing. Field of vibration of Utsara-utsara have the potential to dissolve the expectations of the listener into simple numerical textures, deep bass sounds, organic pulses and reverberations of background recording.

Both recordings are outcome of the bedroom session with possibilities of geometrically precise mathematical repetition of hand woven Persian carpets. The work of duo Diatribes brightened the tribal, irrational sound situation through the logic of clearly picked formulations, patterns and variations. Ideally and logically clearly chosen steps on the way into the unique sound universe.

„It's about the fact that tour music is very repetitive, like some ritual music, creating sense of loosing time for example, but in the other hand it is very rational and conceptual, and the formal aspect is just a technic to make more things, more small details, audible.“

Diatribes collaborated with Magda Mayas, Dominic Lash, Patrick Farmer, Derek Shirley, Hannah Marshall, Barry Guy, Keith Rowe...

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released March 15, 2017

d'incise - shakers & bells (A), cymbal (B), background (A & B)
Cyril Bondi - shakers & bells (A), floortom, bass drum & snare drums (B)

recorded, mixed and mastered by d'incise
artwork, design and handwork by Katarína Škamlová, Jakub Juhás and Zoltán Czakó
released by mappa as MAP06