Dans Le Camion De Marguerite Dumas [LP]

Jean-Marie Mercimek - Dans Le Camion De Marguerite Dumas [LP]

"The road is a wrinkled timeline. Uncanny flatness conceals unfolding textures, transparent layers and open tabs. The truck cuts the landscape, tracing the road with a line of mad logic that composites time, space, thought. On Dans Le Camion de Marguerite Duras, French duo Jean-Marie Mercimek have returned with a road movie for the blind. Composed and recorded by Marion Molle and Ronan Riou over six years across France and Belgium, this unlikely distillation of microtonal MIDI composition, French B.O., and post-punk chansons brazenly expands the duos' penchant for lowkey narrative spectacle. Across Le Camion, sounds form a theatrical screen. Our ears are the curtains drawn wide and listening with a look that pans across the shot. No title cards, they cut straight to action. The truck is a camera, zooming and framing the tracks as scenes. Songwriting and sound design blur in a tangle of delicate economy. The balance of mutant music-boxes and dewy miniatures recalls otherworldly hits from Gareth Williams' Flaming Tunes, Residents, and catchier corners of the Lovely Music catalog. Strange, sure, but this flick is never quite a cartoon. Molle and Riou's vocals dilate into a cast of very human characters. Voices sing borrowed texts like untrained actors (playing themselves, in fact) stepping into the frame once before disappearing forever. And when they're gone, you miss them. But here in the truck, it all comes back again under the cyclic spell of repose in perpetual motion. Turn up the radio and appuyez sur le champignon." --Turner Williams Jr. 1. 01. Le Camion_x000D_ 2. 02. Jambe De Cuir_x000D_ 3. 03. Une Bouche Regardee_x000D_ 4. 04. Sommeil Lointain_x000D_ 5. 05. Un Point Sur La Carte_x000D_ 6. 06. A La Peche O Crevetes_x000D_ 7. 07. Fievreuse_x000D_ 8. 08. Ouvrir Et Recoudre_x000D_ 9. 09. Sanguine_x000D_ 10. 10. D'Ombres