MATHIAS DELPLANQUE: Le Pavillon Temoin

Mathias Delplanque

Le Pavillon Temoin

© 2007 Low Impedance Recordings (5200347700099)

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This is a very subtle and personal piece of work exploring the aesthetics of modern electronica, jazz, folk and musique concrete. Acoustic instruments (guitar, piano, cello, drums, accordion, melodica, bells) form the backbone of the compositions.

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Mathias Delplanque is an artist based in France, known mainly for his dub albums released under the name ‘Lena’ on the labels Quatermass and Sounds Around. He’s also involved in numerous projects ranging from sound installations, to improvisation and live performance. ‘Le Pavillon Temoin’ (‘The Show House’), marks the beginning of a new phase in the music of Mathias Delplanque. This is a very subtle and personal piece of work exploring the aesthetics of modern electronica, jazz, folk and musique concrete. Acoustic instruments (guitar, piano, cello, drums, accordion, melodica, bells) form the backbone of the compositions, sometimes dissolving into particles of abstract sound, and at other times conspiring to create familiar textures. This fragile balance between noisy collages and pleasing melodies is the key to the album’s atmosphere, it¹s a listening treat for the mind, the ear and the imagination. With each layer of shimmering guitar, The Show House reveals itself in all its mysterious glory.

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  • author: Cuemix Magazine

    You know the fairy tale about the kettle filled with gold at the end of the rainbow? I think in nowadays it must be rewritten. It’s so hard to find good music with an artistically claim. In the days of Mp3 music and mass consumption its the smaller labels who adventure in nonesuch music. Low Impendance music is one of these special labels that do a big service in well-selected experimental music. With the release of “The Pavillon Temoin” done by the French artist Mathias Delplanque they prove again that the demand of releasing experimental music with substance and background can be enjoyable like a sunny day. Mathias Delplanque combines acoustic instruments with experimental sounds and produces a mysterious atmosphere. But when I say mysterious I don’t mean scary.. its more like a secret garden. The layers of sounds are like a rose garden. With each step (sound) you get curious what’s behind the next hedge. A wonderful relaxed and exciting atmosphere! The balance between sounds, layers and classical instruments is wonderful. Noises and melodies please your ears and your mind like a summer wind. Yes this sounds a little bit kitschy, but what words would you use for something, which is such beautiful like this album? ... so what will you tell your children what’s at the end of the rainbow? Wonderful music. Like “Le Pavillion Temoin"

  • author: Textura

    Though France-based Mathias Delplanque is fairly well-known for electronic dub releases under the Lena name, it's fitting that he's opted to issue Le Pavillon Temoin (‘The Show House') under his real name. Not to disparage the Lena material in any way, but this new album sounds like a more personal and direct reflection of Delplanque's music-making. The style is certainly not Lena ; instead, acoustic instrumentation (guitar, piano, cello, drums, accordion, melodica, bells) dominates the album's atmospheric and diverse settings, and the songs themselves inhabit a post-rock space that ranges from jazz and folk to ambient and musique concrete. There are dreamy, downtempo moments (“Contre-Plinthe,” “Va-Et-Vient”), folktronic settings (the equally funereal and wistful “Ecrasé sous les pierres ”), piano-based dramatics (“Parquet flottant”), and lumbering dirges (“Le detecteur de mouvements,” where strings moan, shudder, and swoop amidst junkyard percussive patterns). Moods shift within songs too: “Le regard” opens with subtly processed lattices of acoustic picking but then morphs into a post-rock dirge accompanied by Old West whistling, while “Le corridor” puts its melancholy accordion melodies through a glitch-heavy blender. For reasons that aren't entirely clear, four of the fifteen pieces, including the folk meditation “Saragosse” and gravel-voiced dirge “It's Spring On the Moon,” are grouped under the title “Le journal oublié” (“The Forgotten Diary”). Many pieces are short, like brief scenes or sketches, but they work together to make a cumulative impact. It may be more challenging to get a handle on Le Pavillon Temoin when it's so wide-ranging but, in the long run, the album makes a stronger impression as a result.

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