GÉOMÉTRIES SOUS-CUTANÉES | TRS082
A world apart from the contemporary musical scene, this album owes as much to Gabriel Faure as it does to the Bristol scene. Exhibiting both uniquely original progressive rock allusions and obsessive electronic repetitions, it feels both familiar yet very new. Come embark upon this urban, electronically infused post-pop voyage…it will set you on a course through uncharted soundscapes, and you will have no wish to come ashore!
With this wonderfully diverse album Watine takes us on a wide ranging voyage through densely electronic analog textures, cinemascopic toy orchestrations, and delicately fragile instrumental nuances into a mysterious world that has it’s origins in musique concrete and radiophonic pop classicism. Echoes of upbeat urban soundscapes merge with darker pastoral and baroque meanderings into a robust blend that can only be consumed by those with tastes both as diverse and nuanced as those being expressed here at length in this uniquely multi sensorial celebration.
This two record release will be available in two distinct versions. Firstly…for the limited edition version we have created an amazingly appropriate, deluxe, boxed and slip cased package for Catherine that we are most pleased with! Each of these unique beauties, in an edition of only 60 copies, comes in the form of re-purposed, 50 year old “Great Men Of Music” classical music box set…from the Time Life series of that name. Where were the Women composers when this series was released? Women composers in general were highly neglected in the world of classical music in particular of course…so sadly there weren’t any women included in this original series of 40 artist’s or so. Therefore we have taken pains with this release to rectify that unfortunate situation! Vive the Great Women Of Music!
Each 13”x13”x1” heavy duty slip case box comes covered on the front with an archival, and high resolution image taken from the standard version cover artwork by Caroline Lysiak. These are printed on the highest quality heavy-weight archival Moab, Rag Natural papers, and each is then supplemented with individually and abstractly sewn thread in guise of flowing hair. The reverse side and spine of each box is covered in a uniquely different, elegant vintage wallpaper. The inner slip case of each box is covered on both sides with vintage photographic prints of exotic sea shells, which are then supplemented with bits of the outer wallpapers found on each particular box. Inside each box the two individually sleeved records come in a sewn, golden fabric bag with fold down flap. There is a large, hand printed and stamped insert on the same papers, that is also threaded and hung with it’s own unique tag for easy removal from the box! Each box will come in an outer archival protective mylar sleeve.
There is also a beautiful standard 2 record version of this release in printed jacket…as well as a gatefold CD, and digital version.
All versions are available at both the TRS website, and at the TRS Bandcamp page.
This release will ship by mid March 2019.
Watine has played piano since the age of 3. She first appeared in the punk scene (Random Moods), and with trip- hop in 2006 (Dermaphrodite), which opened the door to cinematographic pop and two albums (B-side Life, Still Grounds For Love). She lends her voice on an album dedicated to Emily Dickenson (This Quiet Dust), before releasing “Atalaye” in 2015, a very piano centric album, all in french and close in feel to Satie and Fauré. Her sense of freedom then pushed her towards electronic experimentation, home-made samples, field recordings, piano themes, and collaged bits from unreleased material. It became this sub-cutaneous geometry, already stirring up the french underground music press into positioning it as a best of 2019.
>>>>”Over Freeways” opens the album with an imperial piano crash that resonates as a path-finder opening the way. Then strings, smooth keys and staggered rhythms encourage us to shelter under her wing. “Sheer Power” then continues the climb thanks to a haunting refrain on the piano, supported by raucous arrangements. The atmospheres keep us moving without skipping a beat, like in the magnificent “Undying Pizzicato” where Catherine Watine does not hesitate to summon John Barry to drive the nail in, unfurling a timeless and definitively cinematographic music”.
http://www.popnews.com/popnews/watine-geometries-sous-cutanees
>>>>>”It is all about concrete, abstract and cinematic music, fragmented themes, but above all, total freedom. A mysterious freedom that propels Catherine Watine towards the work of Wenbern, Schönberg or Steve Reich. She built this bridge between Mahler and popular music. ”
http://www.indiepoprock.fr/OnAAussiEcoute/catherine-watine-geometries-sous-cutanees/
>>>>>”Pop electronic, ambient and avant-garde, toy music in cinemascope, generated by a wide range of instruments, including synthetic waves (final of Lovesick echos a very distended The Cure), various ways of playing, sub- harmonic and disharmonious, arrhythmias and lyrical outbursts. A metaphorical journey.”
www.obskuremag.net/chroniques/watine-geometries-sous-cutanees
