Sylvie Walder - Moments

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4...according to our Phil on Thu 24 Sep, 2009.

We got a bunch of stuff in this week on Jeremy Bible's Experimedia label and here's one of 'em! It's a CD by Sylvie Walder which comes in one of their signature custom designed six panel tall-slim pack and is limited to 150 copies. You won't really understand that until you see one. You see they're very foldy inside. Sylvie is a French sound artist who has created a lovely 12 track album of ambient soundscapes for you to soothe your modern batterred head with. Moments is minimal ambient droney stuff suited for late nights and for people with really nice headphones. You can't go wrong really. The more I hear this one the more I'm being sucked into it's lovely warmth. It's really quite good! Also we got a couple of CD's in Koen Park and Ian Hawgood (one and the same) but as we've reviewed him loads we thought we'd do someone else this time!

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Experimedia presents the first public release of French sound artist Sylvie Walder. Sylvie's 'Moments', pulls one into delicate and intimate moments in time. Drawing from a palette of introversion, nostalgia, absence, longing, and "la présence du sacré" Sylvie creates a uniquely evocative sound through the intimate tones of her piano as the driving force behind her emotive sonic constructs.

'Moments' is packaged in Experimedia's signature custom designed six panel tall-slim pack and is limited to 150 copies.

//00. Coupée de (introduction)
//01. Non dépourvue d'une certaine violence
//02. Nuages flottants
//03. Atat
//04. Pastiche
//05. Restored
//06. The most abstract to date
//07. Sunday after noon
//08. Réminiscence close et nostalgie
//09. Varia track 9 (un chant au loin)
//10. Paris failure
//11. Séquence 5
//12. Une route, vers où ?

Sylvie Walder, 28, has suffered from a recording obsession since childhood resulting in numerous private recordings on tape and later on mini-disc. Later on Sylvie joined the group "Les bruits du silence" before it eventually split due to geographical reasons in 2003. Following several solo attempts, under various names, focusing mainly on drone music and field recordings Sylvie's current "musical affair" took momentum in 2007. Several hours of drone music ensued, recently compiled as miscellaneous private releases. During all these efforts, the approach has remained the same: making "musique intime", music for headphones and lonely moments, minimal snapshots of moments and places, trying to recall forgotten feelings, in attempt to "remember one's self" to quote Gurdjieff. myspace.com/sylviewalder