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Track 2
"Grieves"
from the release Innerly
Label statement:
Based upon poetical texts dealing with the fundamental question of
time fleeting but never really settling down, Thomas Bel's music
builds itself on a reflection about the elsewhere, imperceptible
but always here. An unceasing searching towards this other time, in
between nostalgia and openness to the after.
Willing to create a tangible alliance between the purely acoustic
(guitars, cello, piano, fieldrecordings) and the digital
(processing, drones,...), Thomas reveals deeply emotional
instrumentations, sensitive soundscapes.
Each piece composing Innerly offers pure moments of lonely
contemplation, the bow is struck to create abstract and emotional
shapes that immerse us in a universe made of passé "baroquism" and
slow automnal voluptuousness.
The sound material of the album is made of field-recordings based
on wanderings or voluntary seclusion, guitars either "raw" or
processed, fugitive piano notes, cellos and flutes sections
intertwined with insistent drones.
The voices, always ever so fragile, are more and more present and
are trying to bring back pieces of memory as a new skin through the
broken or unpredictably contained singing.