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Parallaxes

by nebulo

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darrellshoub this guy's music in ingeniously unique and stand out in a field of ever gigantically huge experimental muisc, bending not just your ears and your thoughts but your heart and memories and more, I own all his cds, and just plain love 90 % of everything thing he has Midas touched , especially on good headphones in solitude.
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(french description below)


Following two duo releases on Le Cabanon Records (Crypto Tropic & Othello Aubern), French composer and producer nebulo (Thomas Pujols) now presents his album ​Parallaxes​, the second installment of our Albe series.


Parallaxes was written for the most part in the spring of 2018. Acting as a prequel to the EP ​Ascii Snake released in June 2019 on Conditional, it is a consequence of ​Zellige​, released three years earlier on Phinery. These records are collections of polyrhythms and ritornellos of dramatic efficiency as much as they are an exploration of electronic tones. The phrase “music written for synthesizers” makes a lot of sense here.

This new chapter takes a final step in confirming an aesthetic turning point in nebulo’s career, in which his polyphonic style, entirely concentrated on synthesised timbres (​Parallaxes’ only sound sources), reaches maturity.

By blowing life into these coarse and glittering materials, nebulo reveals with great ease both their emotional potential and their profound tranquility. The composer expresses himself within the slightest shades and accents of the inner life of his constructions, with that global sense that is the science of melody, thus satisfying both fans of sonic spontaneity and those more attuned to an art of nuances. Thus, the sounds are sculpted, twisted, deconstructed and recomposed to form rhythms and melodies that are free in each of their movements.

Having already begun to work on the friction between the harmony and dissonance on his previous releases, Thomas Pujols takes things a step further with ​Parallaxes​. Here, he takes to microtonality and other scales of pitch that escape the norms of equal temperament. The repetitions and motifs he uses balance the soundscape by facilitating the reading of melodic variations that do not fit within our usual patterns. These two seemingly contradictory directions maintain a sensation of blurriness as to the chain of events, as well as to the vanishing point towards which each composition leans. Thus, repeated listenings of the record will necessarily lead to a new angle of approach each time, allowing the listener to access the sonic picture in its entirety, and ultimately make the image clear.

The question of multiplicity is precisely the central theme of this work, wherein every change of position regarding one same object, one same point of attraction, results in the birth of a new entity. As we move from track to track, each layer of sound is often the mirror of another, near or far. In their construction, in their existence, their interactions and sometimes even in their absence, the sounds weave a subterfuge that we must dispel in order to truly explore it. nebulo draws a narrative pattern designed to disorientate, both a mirage and a tangible phenomenon, that changes in the midst of our perception.



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Après deux projets en duo sur Le Cabanon (Crypto Tropic et Othello Aubern), le compositeur et producteur français nebulo (Thomas Pujols) présente son album Parallaxes dans le cadre du deuxième opus de la série Albe.


Parallaxes fut composé en grande partie au printemps 2018. Faisant figure de préquelle à l’EP Ascii Snake sorti en juin 2019 sur Conditional, il est une conséquence de Zellige, publié trois ans plus tôt sur Phinery. Ces disques sont des collections de polyrythmies et de ritournelles d’une efficacité dramatique, autant qu’une exploration des timbres électroniques. Dire : “musique composée pour synthétiseurs”, prend ici beaucoup de sens.

Ce nouveau chapitre finit d’affirmer un tournant esthétique dans la carrière du musicien, il y atteint la maturité d’un style polyphonique entièrement concentré sur les timbres de synthèse, seules sources sonores de Parallaxes.

nebulo insuffle la vie dans ces matériaux souvent scintillants et rêches jusqu’à en révéler le potentiel émotif et parfois la profonde quiétude avec une grande aisance. Le compositeur s’exprime dans les moindres teintes et accents de la vie intérieure de ses constructions, avec ce sens global qu’est la science de la mélodie, satisfaisant ainsi les amateurs de spontanéité sonore et ceux attentifs à un art des nuances. La synthèse sonore montre fort justement sa grande malléabilité pour cette approche. Ainsi, elle est sculptée, tordue, décomposée et recomposée pour former rythmiques et mélodies libres de tout mouvements.

Déjà adepte de frôlements entre justesse et dissonance d’oscillateurs sur ses précédentes productions, Thomas Pujols franchit une nouvelle étape sur Parallaxes. Il aborde ici la micro-tonalité et autres échelles de hauteurs sortant de la norme du tempérament égal. Les répétitions et motifs qu’il emploie équilibrent le tableau en facilitant la lecture de ses variations mélodiques ne collant pas aux schémas habituels. Ces deux faisceaux qui paraissent contradictoires seulement au premier contact, entretiennent une impression de flou quant à la suite des événements, au point de fuite vers lequel chaque composition peut tendre. Ainsi, l’écoute répétée entraînera nécessairement un nouvel angle d’appréhension permettant d’accéder à la totalité du tableau et finira par rendre nette l’image dépeinte.

La question de la multiplicité est justement la thématique centrale de son travail, où tout changement de position par rapport au même objet, au même point d’attraction, a pour conséquence la naissance d’une nouvelle entité. Ainsi, au fil des compositions, chaque strate est souvent le miroir déformé d’une autre à proximité ou à distance. Les sons dans leur fabrication, dans leur existence, leurs interactions ou parfois dans leur absence, tissent un faux-semblant qu’ils nous faut défaire pour mieux l’explorer. nebulo pose une trame narrative faite pour désorienter, c’est à la fois un mirage et un phénomène tangible en devenir au sein de notre perception.

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released September 18, 2020

LECABANONALBE002

Written, produced and mixed by Thomas Pujols.
Artwork by E. d’Aracsam.
Mastered and cut by Mathieu Berthet @ MB Mastering, France.
Records pressed by VRM, France.
Texts by Antoine Hubineau and Le Cabanon.
Translation by Ross Heselton.
Bonus track mastered by nebulo.


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