Out Now : Pascal Savy - The Silent Watcher (AM002)

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Info Notes
Release date : 01 March 2010
Label : Audiomoves
Cat. number : AM002
Format : digital download

Written and mixed : Pascal Savy (2007-2009)
Mastering : Taylor Deupree (2010)
Artwork : Frank Meyer (2010)

Tracklisting
1 - Distant (4:25)
2 - Contact (3:01)
3 - Deconstructing Clues (5:09)
4 - Asleep (5:37)
5 - Oblique (8:55)
6 - Muon (7:58)
7 - Fading Colours (5:22)

Press release
Tools manipulated in an old workshop, clocks slowed down, the spinning wheel of a rusty bike, children playing near a church, the sound of the wind in Norfolk, climbing up the stairs in a disused windmill, ghost echoes. Those are some sounds that constitute the atmosphere of The Silent Watcher. Presented in their raw form or heavily processed, they all relate to old memories, often blurred and incomplete; the aural equivalent of a faded polaroid. From field recordings, layers are created, manipulated, taken apart and rebuilt and soon begin to tell a story - a story often buried under droney textures and fragmented melodies and only partially revealed, but more often distorted and reconstructed.

This album has been made over a period of two years, a time period in which the process has slowly taken shape and mutated, often leading to beautiful accidents and unexpected results patiently collated and recycled. It is also the story of a work in progress and a craft being learned, where many compositional methods have been explored.

Contact
www.audiomoves.com
contact@audiomoves.com

[pascal savy]

Nice review on Vital Weekly (issue 722) :

PASCAL SAVY - THE SILENT WATCHER (MP3 by Audio Moves)
A subdivision from the physical label Audiobulb is Audio Moves, which deal with paid downloads. Pascal Savy started in the 90s playing Detroit techno, recorded onto tapes and minidiscs and stopped for quite some time. Now he's back, concentrating on more ambient textured music. To that end he uses field recordings made in an old workshop, the slowing down of clocks, the spinning wheel of a rusty bike, children playing and such like. In his music he treats these sounds on the computer and mixes both the raw, unprocessed parts with the processed ones. It would be too easy to say his music is all ambient. Savy uses sustaining sounds for sure, build from small extracts of his field recordings, but an important feature is also the use of loops. Sometimes these loops are worked into something that can be called a rhythm, like in 'rhythm machines' - or perhaps he just added those? The seven tracks make a pretty strong impression, while at the same time its perhaps not much new under the sun of microsound, ambient, field recordings and drones. Savy adds small musical touches to the material, such as the piano like sounds in 'Deconstructing Clues', which makes this less abstract than the average release in this field. Excellent production - great compositions. Should have been a real CD, I think. (FdW)
Address: http://www.audiomoves.com

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Review from textura