Tag: stephan_mathieu

ambient music, RECOMMENDATIONS

Stephan Mathieu – Un Coeur Simple


Mathieu-Coeur

Shortly after reworking David Sylvian’s “Blemish” on “Wandermüde“, Stephan Mathieu presents another impressive work.

“Un Coeur Simple” (“A Simple Heart”) is the soundtrack of a play based on Gustave Flaubert’s novel, which was published in 1877 as the first of three tales.

In creating his personal soundscapes, Mathieu has always preferred using old source materials, things of the past, like wax-cylinders and 78 rpm records, as his source material….“a fascination for the past expressed through cutting-edge tools”.

ambient music, RECOMMENDATIONS

Sylvain Chauveau & Stephan Mathieu – Palimpsest


Palimpsest

pal·imp·sest  (plmp-sst)n.
1. A manuscript, typically of papyrus or parchment, that has been written on more than once, with the earlier writing incompletely erased and often legible.

I guess I can safely assume that both Stephan Mathieu and Sylvain Chauveau don’t need any further introduction to readers of this blog.
Also, there’s not very much news in the concept of two artists working together in a digital dialogue, maybe even from different corners of the world. Usually, this means sending back and forth musical ideas – working, remixing, recreating and editing the tracks until they are fit enough to publish.
But not in this particular case!

“Palimpsest” took an unexpected turn when Sylvain Chauveau only added his voice to the tracks presented by Stephan Mathieu – leaving the basic tracks unaltered.

I can vividly imagine Stephan Mathieu’s complete surprise when hearing back his tracks, unaltered, but with the added layer of vocals covering Bill Callahan‘s classic Smog songs.