Gijs van Soest
Layered, wandering yet cohesive. Listen on speakers and it really starts to breathe. The birds on the second half of the piece deserve a performing credit. Hope they will do this live at some point.
Hallucine was never meant to exist. That’s to say; the initial recordings made by Anne Bakker and René Aquarius were meant for separate projects, but when juxtapositioned by Rutger Zuydervelt, their combination proved utterly intriguing. Starting from this chance encounter, the three musicians refined the composition with subtle overdubs and detailed editing. The resulting 33-minute piece is an elusive patchwork of violin, percussion, vocals, field recordings, and electronics. In Hallucine, the division between found sound and (acoustic and electronic) instrumentation is blurred into a spectral hallucination.
credits
released October 29, 2021
Anne Bakker: violin, viola, vocals, harmonica, kazoo, saw
René Aquarius: cymbals, field recordings
Rutger Zuydervelt: electronics, field recordings, mixing, editing
Constructed November 2020 to May 2021
Mastered by Marlon Wolterink at White Noise Studio
Photography by Clive Maidment
Released by Consouling Sounds, 2021
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