Sinebag - Pres de la Lisiere CD

on the second album "pres de la lisiere" sinebag focusses even more on the approach of a continous soundfield which was already part of the concept for "milchwolken in teein". on this record all fieldrecordings and compositions form one long track without interuptions. songs and soundrecordings are present in the same amount. this interweaving, an adaption of the surrounding everyday soundscape, is the aim of the field creation. the compositions feature mostly acoustic instruments - guitars, pino and organs form the basis of the material. these elements are processed and enriched by electronic synthesis. the titel "près de la lisière" (close to the border) reflects in several ways the contant of the record. it points at the nearness of the music to sound and the closeness of this album to no music at all. the cd is packed in a 8-sided digipack


"First, the packaging. Nice clean lines on the earth-toned multi-fold opening digipack. Very nicely designed and it makes me excited to hear what is inside. Field recordings are matched minutely with pensive and delicate music. Birds twirp and raindrops hit metal and acoustic guitar meanders through it tying it all together. Both types of sound, the natural and the acoustic, add so much to each other. Field recordings are OK, but only go so far in my opinion. Here, they are married to mellow guitars as if you were laying in the grass on a nice day and someone sat down 20 feet away and jammed with nature. Other field recordings are used, sounds like a drawer opening, shuffling around the house give the simple guitar a lot of basis. Beequeen did something similar on their recording The Body Shop, but in a much more complicated manner. Here it is stripped to the basics. Other times we have someone setting the table and dinner is cooking while a piano plays. Wonderfully delicate music."(Don Poe)

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