PANCRACE, by Bécheau, Day, Desailly, Maurel, Vysocky

PANCRACE

by Bécheau, Day, Desailly, Maurel, Vysocky

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Gavin Hellyer Fascinating results emanating out of a mutual desire from these musicians to utilise a massive church organ to their own creative ends. Very fine improvisations c/w completely original and unexpected instrumentation combine to present a fascinating and remarkable release. Favorite track: PANCRACE 2LP side A.

oulipien Reminds me of the Vander/Top/Garber/Blazquiz "Sons" record, similar eerie meandering vibe.

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Prune Bécheau (baroque violin, organ), Arden Day (landscape piano, organ, boîte à bourdons, hurgy toys), Julien Desailly (uillean pipes, hulusi, flutes), Léo Maurel (organ, boîtes à bourdons, hurgy toys) and Jan Vysocky (pi synth, AM radio, microphones)

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during UK release tour April 2017

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recording sessions during spring 2015 next to Leo Maurel's workshop for instruments in Dangolsheim, Alsas

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during the April release tour of Pancrace 2LP, Penultimate Press

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Double vinyl released as PP28 early April 2017 on Penultimate Press, London
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Pancrace 2LP, stained glass front cover design with drawings insight the gatefold jacket

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1.	PREVIEW TRACK 09:42 video	buy track
2.	PANCRACE 2LP side A 18:27
3.	PANCRACE 2LP side B 17:18
4.	PANCRACE 2LP side C 17:39
5.	PANCRACE 2LP side D 17:08

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***Best of 2017 voted by the Wire magazine, Chicago Reader & Soundohm!***

The Pancrace Project (Arden Day, Prune Bécheau, Julien Desailly, Léo Maurel & Jan Vysocky) came out of an informal residency in Alsace (Dangolsheim) curated by the musician and inventor Léo Maurel.

Though no determined concept preceded the session a mutual desire to occupy Saint-Pancrace Church and investigate its 1848 organ in a profane manner seemed to bond all the players thus allowing them to do a « tentative d’épuisement » of the place over a week of improvisations and form emerging compositions. So nothing but the place became the only credo in taking possession of this charismatic environment. Like in most churches the organ stands like a Moloch or a sentinel bearing a singular relation to the place regarding its resonance and frequencies.

Hence the form of the session emerged from disrupting the traditional frontal approach to the instrument by both preparing the organ inside out and organically challenging its gregarious authority with instruments like a boîte à bourdons, a baroque violin, a pi-synth, hurgy toys, a piano paysage, feedback, Uilleann pipes, a motorised bow, Hulusi flutes and even bird call whistles… It became clear that a narrative was emerging that would soon lead to a structure. Amidst this hunter gathering of sounds one can hear layers of microtones, microrhythms, drones with elements of field recording all displayed like an ensemble.

Prune Bécheau (violon, orgue)
prunebecheau.bandcamp.com

Julien Desailly (cornemuse irlandaise, flute Hulusi)
jdesailly.com

Léo Maurel (orgue, Boîte à Bourdon, Hurgy Toys)
www.violonaroue.fr

Arden Day (orgue, piano paysage)
ardenday.com
unbehagen.at

Jan Vysocky (Pi-synth, feedback, AM radio, recording)
wysozky.com
unbehagen.at

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released May 15, 2017

published early April 2017 as a double vinyl on the London based label Penultimate Press:
www.penultimatepress.com/product/pancrace-2lp/

Recorded in Saint-Pancrace church Dangolsheim by Jan Vysocky
Editing and mixing at studiocairos.com
Artwork by Julien Desailly and Léonie Harnois for the stained glass
Layout by Maja Larsson

Thanks to Mark Hardwood

Penultimate Press / CAIROS edition 2017

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