Errances Fractales | TRS103
This is the third album released with us by French artist Catherine Watine, closing the trilogy after Géométries Sous-cutanées and Intrications Quantiques.
“To play is to live. With delicate intentions (“Less is More”), and shifting tensions for shared nocturnal feasts (“Gently missing”), Catherine Watine’s new album is an accompaniment to the genuine things of the world, like soothing nature, washing by its rain and waves, threatening only if one is afraid. Catherine takes sounds, throws notes; watches them, plays with them, puts them down, then takes them back to give them to us; smiling at last at the idea that we can grasp them.
In this vast world of the open window on oneself and the others, Watine’s music has no name, no genres, no boxes: ambient, neo-classical, minimal-symphonic, cinematographic, psychedelic or hypnagogic (“Timeless wandering”)? It remains a revealed mystery which comes and goes, caresses and envelops, an impalpable cocoon that is nevertheless present. The glitches form a base, a plough which traces as much as it furrows a way of being in the world, simultaneously anguishing and beautiful (“Moving forward”). “
Sylvaïn Nicolino – Obsküre Digital Media
The double vinyl Errances Fractales comes as a deluxe limited edition version of 50 uniquely different copies housed in repurposed, 60+ year old classical music boxes. The Caroline Lysiak artwork featured on the cover of the standard vinyl version has been printed by us on archival Epson paper, then each sheet is cut and torn to reveal parts of the original designs of the old boxes themselves. A piece of a water jet cut, steel fractal sheet that was once used in a sculpture made by my father Ken Herrick back in the 1980’s, is also attached to the front. The inside covers are lined with 125 year old Parisian newspaper advertisements that have been spray painted with fractal designs, and further modified with cut out snow flake fractal patterns. Also included is a page from an antique, piano instruction manual, each with intriguing hand placement imagery. The 4 page printed insert features various musical reviews in French and English, and imagery drawn by the fine French artist, Guillaume Mazel. Both of the records come in inner, black polylined sleeves.
There is also a standard vinyl version, as well as a CD version of this release. All three will be available at our Bandcamp page, as well as in a digital format.
As usual your copy may or may not be the ones pictured here. This is a pre-order, and this album will ship in mid December.
>>>> Catherine Watine <<<<
From her first album, propelling her for a time as an electro and trip-hop icon, along with a miraculous foray into English and then French pop, post-folk, poetry and noise rock, and to the last volume of her contemporary and ecstatic trilogy, Catherine WATINE has built herself a unique and essential home in the international musical landscape. www.watineprod.com
>>> Credits <<<<
All music recorded and produced at home by Catherine Watine
Flute samples on Gently Missing : Yann Cléry
Mixing : Damien Somville
Mastering : Raphaël Jonin
Graphic Art : Caroline Lysiak
Exclusive and original Drawings : Guillaume Mazel
Deluxe Edition design : Colin Herrick
Time Released Sound 2021
