Aarde - A Whole Day

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4...according to our Ant on Thu 14 Feb, 2008.

Aarde next with a 6 tracker CDr on Dirty Demos. 'Little Hug' is a mighty (sometimes a smidge dark) ambience which long term readers/sufferers of our review pages will recall I once thought was pointless. After I found my ears in the back of the wardrobe a couple of years ago, I've developed a fondness for computer generated ghostly tendrils of digital static & fuzz and that. I appreciate the calming effect this music has on your head after a twat of a day at work or a heady night on the lash or too many crack donkey pipes. This is very beautiful & drifty with sinister undertones that may make you a little paranoid if you've been mixing brick dust with your crack.

1. High sea [6'52]
2. In the garden [4'48]
3. The departure [5'26]
4. Here we were [5'28]
5. Not really alone [6'10]
6. Coming to life [6'28]

Aarde was formed in 2004 when Guillaume Gargaud met Loïs Laplace and joined forces for some improvised sessions, searching for a deeper exploration in electronic music. During this time collaborating, Guillaume has integrated prepared guitar in his computer music and Loïs has started using Kyma system.

Guillaume Gargaud is a French musician known for guitar work and his love of improvisation. He studied the art of improvisation at IMA, France from 1999-2001. After this Guillaume joined Zwann Ei collective who specialise in sound and image creations and how they relate to the body. In 2007 Guillaume also started participating in the future ethnic comparative research Game Alone Synthesis.

Loïs Laplace was born in 1973, and his first musical outing was at the age of seven, learning classical piano for a few years. Later he was interested in playing popular, folk music and eventually jazz, after playing piano in some band. Things really started to change for Loïs when he discovered the magical sounds of free jazz at the age of twenty. After high school, Loïs worked on merchant ships for several years, going to sea for months, which meant playing less music because he couldn't bring a valuable keyboard in his luggage. But after a while Loïs discovered digital music, and with the purchase of his first computer, he found that it was possible to play with sound with a single laptop, and that was a very convenient feature when he had to navigate at sea! His musical interest then moved to 'musique concrète', and 'improvised electronic'. After an internet release, in 2006 Loïs Laplace released his debut album 'Inland' on Dirty Demos, and contributed to both the 'Obsevation Point' compilations. Loïs' next solo release for the label is 'To Semiturn', an abstract film containing footage recorded at sea along with some of his own music.

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