Stadium [Deluxe Aluminum Sleeve 2LP]

Chevreuil - Stadium [Deluxe Aluminum Sleeve 2LP]

Double LP version. Deluxe aluminum sleeve. New album from the noise/math rock duo after a 20-year hiatus. A sound architects' album tinted with esoterism. Chevreuil is a French rock duo made up of Julien F. and Tony C., formed in 1998 after the two met three years earlier at an art school in Nantes. From the beginning, they approached the idea of a band as a performative art installation, a self-contained, sculptural device for sound, space, and motion, rather than a conventional rock ensemble. Julien and Tony, respectively, in their parlance, play "magnetic drums" and "magnetic guitar," an analogy for their livewire, one-on-one chemistry, where the music seems to fall together by way of natural forces. Rejecting the addition of a bassist early on, Chevreuil built its music around reduction, repetition, and architecture. Tony's guitar runs through four amplifiers arranged around Julien's drum kit, creating a quadraphonic field that surrounds the players. Julien's 1976 Ludwig kit, built the same year both musicians were born, is never amplified, allowing the group to perform anywhere so long as there's a single outlet for the amplifiers. The result is both physical and spatial, a minimalist engine of rhythm and resonance that behaves as much like an installation as a band. Their s(more...) 01. Alliage 02. Tartarus 03. Aria 04. Ordrus 05. Plexus 06. Theorus Macrocosmus 07. Mortalis 08. Hypnosis 09. Magnus 10. Corpus 11. Quantum 12. Sanctus 13. Profundis 14. Cerberus 15. Opus 16. Atoll II