Sub Re [LP]

Kassel Jaeger - Sub Re [LP]

Kassel Jaeger (aka François J. Bonnet) returns to Shelter Press after Swamps / Things (SP119), Shifted in Dreams (SP144), and the recent reissue of the classic Zauberberg (SP068), co-composed with Akira Rabelais and Stephan Mathieu. With this major new album, entitled Sub Re, Bonnet continues his long exploration of the musical possibilities of sound, extending the concrete approach developed at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (the historic and essential Parisian studio that Bonnet has been directing since 2018) and revitalizing it through an exposition that focuses less on the clear manifestation of sound material than on its ambiguous evocation.Sub re, in Latin, can mean “under the thing, under the substance, under the matter.” It’s precisely this direct approach to music, drawing on the extraction of raw sound material, that forms the basis of this album. Under the matter thus signals the concrete aspect of music, but not the concrete that is transfigured, becoming vapor and form, the substrate of an idea. Rather, it signals the concrete beneath the concrete, in the immanence of sounds, in their becoming, as a driving force, like a tide, like a vault of imperious and powerful matter. To achieve this, Bonnet draws on a multitude of sound sources (acoustic, electronic, natura(more...)