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"Cherry Beach is located at the end of a small, artificially created peninsula on which various heavy industrial facilities and toxic no-man’s lands decay. The area is infamous as a site out of public sight for police to engage in ‘off the record’ activities. Our location was within a complex of vacant waste oil storage facilities on Cherry Beach. While recording on the night of June 5th, 2004, we were forced to abandon our equipment after discerning that violent activities were taking place in one of the seemingly abandoned structures nearby. We returned at dawn to retrieve our equipment, which we were able to do successfully, only to be pursued out of the area and down the beach by two unidentified men. Fortunately we escaped unharmed, with our recordings intact. Since this time the entire compound and all of its reverberant structures have been demolished, leaving only an empty lot. The material presented here has been selected from two days of recording on site, but otherwise left untreated and unprocessed."
- Joda Clément/Nigel Craig, November 2006
Joda Clément is a young canadian composer of great promise, as already emphasized in some reviews related to his debut disc for ALLUVIAL, "Movement + Rest"...
With an acute ear for details, Joda blends subtly ambient sounds with processed ones stemming from analog or acoustic instruments...
Here with his friend Nigel Craig who gave the impulse to this work by pointing out the specific used location, he pushes everything a step further, rooting out the spirit of the place, while manipulating objects & instruments in situ... this quasi "animist" approach & revisitation makes us enter into another dimension, as Joda & Nigel channel unknown & unvoiced forces, going deep into the invisible universe...
Sometimes everything merges
to an astonishing extent
Listening to the pulse of the night,
full of silver shades,
the air is filled with threat
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Bent in "Silo 11"
We absorb its decaying aura,
a body of strange connections,
inner engraved memories,
vague but intense feelings
letting the inky sea flow within...
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Bringing back all what's lingering
those tranquil ghosts still singing
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"Silo 11" is a fount of knowledge
a training locus
a ford to acumen
enabling you to circle the Instant
and catch the long gone by...
an antenna into the world of meaningful silences...
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