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5 Selects: Roméo Poirier (faitiche)
Roméo Poirier shares a selection of recordings related to his upcoming album ‘Off the Record’ on Jan Jelinek’s faitiche imprint.
French collagist Roméo Poirier has a new album on the way… Drawing inspiration from an artform called Accumulation, which involves the artist gathering a large number of similar objects, fragments, or materials to create a final artwork, Off the Record explores the space between the music composed using accidental recordings of studio talk and sounds never meant to be heard by the public. Voices from the “others” involved in the recording process take center stage along with thousands of found sounds from studio archives including microphones being adjusted, false starts and stops: 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.
Listen to “The List” which is built using recordings of staff at legendary studios including Black Ark, Sunset Sound, Rudy Van Gelder Studios, Oxygen Sound, and others. Though the piece is essentially beatless, you can feel Poirier’s unique sense of pulse and rhythm (he was originally a drummer) throughout the recording as the voices layer and begin to construct a sort of auditory hallucination.
In celebration of the upcoming album, Poirier will be performing live at In Sheep’s Clothing HQ on Saturday, September 27th alongside Peak Oil founder Leech (who will also be playing live) and In Sheep’s Clothing DJs. Check below for a selection of five recordings related to Off the Record.
Tickets are available now via dice! Don’t miss it…
Bill Orcutt – Mechanical Joey (2021)
Great album from start to finish. A composition made using Joey Ramones counting before starting a song, and a snare drum. Shout out to Pete Swanson from Yellow Swans for playing it before one of my show in a Barn near Denver last year.
Paul Motian In Motion (2020, Documentary)
Starting at 48’18: hilarious scene where a fan is expressing his discontent after the band played in Blue Note. This is an excerpt of the dialogue between the fan and Paul Motian:
« I expected more, I’m studying jazz myself… » « Really ? We’ve been here for 6 fucking nights, where the fuck were you ? »
« I thought you guys had balls, I buy your cds all the time, I’m traveling around trying to find you…» « You’ve got a lot of nerves to say, now get the fuck out of here. Fuck you. Where were you man, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Next week we’re here Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, come on down, I’ll buy you a fucking drink»
Thelonious Monk in rehearsal (Evidence, Live in Stockholm)
I remember Charlie Rouse, Monk’s sax player, was talking about some studio sessions where the band was reading the chart for the first time and thought they were rehearsing before the take to be recorded. But when they were ready, the studio engineer/producer said the track was recorded already. Fascinating to think about, how some moments are fixed for eternity. But in the end this idea is obsolete. If you keep coming back to a track, revisiting it you realize it evolves with time and the color always changes.
Christian Marclay in “London”
During the composition process of the album, I went to Paris to see an exhibition of C. Marclay at Centre Pompidou. His pieces Telephones, Doors, The Clock, etc, are a lot of fun to watch.
The Author: Dieter Roth
Jan Jelinek sent me this: the artist sits at the piano, drinks whisky, and has a talk with the engineer for an hour.
