Marc-Henri Arfeux - Loire Abstraction (DNA Production, 2011)

1 Bleue Transparente Avec Irisations (12:52)
2 Bleue-Grise Aux Accents Jaunes (09:38)
3 D'Ardoise Et Ligne Blanche (08:52)
4 Grande Loire D'Hiver (10:32)
5 Noire Et Or (11:20)
6 Coulées De Loire (12:28)
7 Bleue Sombre Aux Scintillements (09:46)

Since the XVIth century, the river Loire has always been a poetic emblem in French culture and arts, for the beauty of its slow waters and landscapes. In the second part of the XXth century, the great painter Olivier Debré who lived on its banks often refered in his subtle abstract way to its moving lights and colours along seasons and hours.
This album expresses my own tribute to Olivier Debré and his Loire paintings I admire deeply, in the form of a symphonic poem for synthesizers and various electronic devices, divided into seven parts. Each one has a title Olivier Debré could have chosen and conveys into music an imaginary Loire vision he could have painted. Has the most feminine of the French rivers, music is a constant metamorphosis of miraculous unique instants in progress.
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Pharmakustik - Granular Computing (DNA Production, 2010)

01 Granular Computing 01 08:12
02 Granular Computing 02 07:20
03 Granular Computing 03 06:12
04 Granular Computing 04 05:56
05 Granular Computing 05 05:52
06 Granular Computing 06 03:26

"Granular Computing" features radical new techniques in granular transformation of audio-particles, clinical rhythms and robotic voices for a powerful, innovative and harsh electronica-sound-perspective 2011.
The album involves excessive use of new software and imposing plug-in-machinery.
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Wehwalt - Lacrima Christi (DNA Production, 2010)

"Lacrima Christi" is an unreleased album that has been originally recorded live in 2004 at the music festival in Jamet Hall at Saint-Herblain, France.
This enhanced version was out as ultra-limited self-released cassette (10 copies).
"Lacrima Christi" is influenced by long period of excessive alcohol consumption (in particular famous Italian wine) and by author's atheist conviction.
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Wehwalt / Marc-Henri Arfeux - Myrrha (DNA Production, 2010)

1 Wehwalt - Birth Of Adonis I (23:54)
2 Marc-Henri Arfeux - Birth Of Adonis II (26:30)

Myrrha refers to a greek legend. According to this story, Myrrha, victim of her incestuous father, Cinyras, king of Cyprus, implored the gods to banish her from the world of the living and the dead, after a nine moons restless wandering in the woods. They changed him into a tree. The myrrh is said to be the loading of her tears during her transformation.
In the end, through a split in her bark, she gave birth to Adonis, a major god representing death and renewal, who is associated to roses and myrtle.

Although this album is inspired by this legend, it does not follow the purpose to depict the sad adventures of Myrrha, but must be interpreted as a symbol of creation. The music, changeable and always unexpected, begins to develop its mental flow and carries our deep emotions. One hears distant whispers, the breath of wind and the things coming to life from the very core of their stillness, to create a sound painting of man's and nature's most secret inner forces.
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