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"Tunis" arose from a project within the framework of the partnership with the festival FEST in Carthage and Tunis. Leafcutter John was invited for made a live in the festival with one forced there: use a sound material captured during all the duration by the festival. A sound conclusion which we find on this album built from the recording of the performance.
It is not for all that a live recording, but a real new album. It is a beautiful surprise.. Half of the titles take an approach slightly scratched with a folk or religious song. Other half presents compositions taking their source in the concrete music. These musical oppositions fit but the mixture works absolutely perfectly, every track mixs magic and dreamlike story.
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Tunis
John Burton isn't a man given to the literal, but the title of his release
is about as matter of fact as it gets - the music presented here was
initially composed for a performance at Festival Echoes Sonores in Tunis
in june 2010. All seven tracks were constructed from sound fragments
gathered during the same visit, so they're as close to improvised as
anything relying on software can ever be. But despite being created so
quickly, they have a nuanced, ambigious impact. The opening "A Slowly
Growing Beautiful" moves in sonorous circles, the bass pattern of a Bach
organ piece garlanded by skeins of sustained guitar; but any sense that
this is going to be a straighforwardly immersive drone fest is confounded
by the "Palm Reader" that ushers choral fragments down dark, congested
alleys of sound.
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