Next up on Audio Gourmet comes French ambient sound designer Alexis Bechu, under his Lexithimie artist banner. Over the last year or so, he’s had some excellent work released on Hibernate, Resting Bell and Rural Colours to name but a few, with his output spanning a wide range of dense drones and field recordings. Now for Audio Gourmet, Alexis has put together this two track EP that sees him head in a darker direction with the main concept being to try to get the listener to confront their deepest fears face on.

The soundscapes here are dense, dark and murky but there is plenty of detail throughout these two pieces to get to grips with. Chimes, glitching electronic sound effects and field recordings serve to punctuate the atmospheric drones to be found within this EP, with interluding moments of suspense adding balance to the overall body of work. – Audio Gourmet

Notable past releases:

“No Matter How Many Times, Repeat” on Hibernate
“Leontopodium” on Resting Bell
“I Wish Someone Was Waiting For Me Somewhere” on Rural Colours

www.myspace.com/thimie
www.audiogourmet.co.uk

‘I began composing this album with the idea to define an area in shadow; I imagined this shaded place to be surrounded by light’…

Because my music has quite an architectural process, I need to be thinking about a peculiar space, moment, or land which inspires me.

The title, “Stroll into the Shade for a Moment”, is extracted from the book “Heart of Darkness” by the English author Joseph Conrad and is a perfect phrase for creating  this environment as an image, the precise image I needed in my mind for creating these sound-works.

The opening track contains a field recording from a walk along a school next to a park in close proximity to where I live in Hackney.  It was a sunny, winter day where the children were coming in masses out of the school to go home.
The recording sounds remind us of an urban environment close to nature; people sharing a moment of happiness and freedom before returning to their home.  From there, the tone changes to describe the color of the room where we feel secure, at ease; having time for yourself out of the sun and under a blanket.

While composing, I was also writing the title of each track as a poem to correspond with these imaginary shades.
They were given an order; a reason for each piece to have a place of significance on this album.

“Stroll into the shade for a moment in despite of horizon,
A silent chamber below waiting somewhere another minute for a never ending.”

Alexis
East London

Pre order here

Packaged in a 4 panel glossy full-color sleeve and limited to 100 copies.
Now taking pre-orders; discs will ship in early April!

All tracks have been written and recorded by Alexis Béchu with the processing of piano, cello, chord organ, digital-recorder, and sine waves.

Photograph by Justin Cooper.

Design by Johnny Utterback.

www.audio.srasounds.com
www.myspace.com/thimie

The first of two posts this evening focusing on Hibernate Recordings releases…This one looks at Lexithimie’s superb ‘No Matter How Many Times, Repeat’…

Lexithimie is Alexis Béchu, originally from France and now based in London. Alexis uses Laptop and digital tape recorder to process his music. No matter how many times, repeat is his third release and supplies 22 minutes of pure audio bliss, consisting of minimal tone variations and brief pulses.

This is a 3″ CDr release. Please note this album is up for pre-sale, the release date is Monday 4th January.

Track List:

Scale 1
Scale 2
Scale 3
Scale 4

Purchase/Pre-Order here

North America orders here soon

www.myspace.com/thimie
www.hibernate-recs.com