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Wahai angin yang mengelus tubuh Sang Pecinta, Yang larut dan terbuyar dalam pelukan cinta, Yang bibirnya bertautan sampai tak tahu cara melepaskan. Oh, mabuklah ia! Ketika punduk-punduk nikmatnya tersentuh, Desahannya berlomba dengan Sang Angin, Membangunkan hasrat-hasrat syahdu yang terlarang, Membuat malam terdengar seperti lantunan melodi yang menyanyi.

(Marsen Jules)

Magnétique

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Marsen Jules - The Empire Of Silence Buy this now: oktaf.bandcamp.com (CD inludes download of a 38 minute bonus track) Ten years after his debut-album “Herbstlaub“ on CCO, german ambient composer Marsen Jules takes us to his “Empire of Silence“. An impressing soundtrack to the epic power and beauty of nordic snow and ice-landscapes. Thereby he sounds even more elegiac, warm and romantic as ever before. This might be a result of a strict reduction to bittersweet symphonic string-sounds. Sounds which Jules elapses like a prism on the timeline and lets them meander on the slightly on the listeners eardrum. While others are still talking about “modern classic“, Jules is already moving on the particle-layer through the sound-continuum. Diving deeper into the sounds then ever before, he lets the frequencies mirror on the sound spectrum with an impressing precision. Actually there is not much space for “real“ silence on the album. Instead the epic sounds of “The Empire of Silence“ seem to unfold their archaic euphoria best at high volumes. An euphoria that carries everything away and occupies the whole space. For the track titles of the eight gems on this album Jules refers to different Words for snow in Inuit language, of which the legend says there are dozens. While the melancholic openers “penstla“ (the idea of snow) and “tlaslo“ (snow that falls slowly) still travel on soft ways, the album raises to its full euphoria with “kayi“ (drifting snow) and “skriniya“ (snow that never reaches the ground). With its epic magic the nine minute long “katiyana“ (night snow) thrills the listeners attention while “naklin“ (forgotten snow) brings a short inhale. The album finds its peak with the ecstatic glisandi of „chathalin“ (snow that makes a sizzling sound as it falls on water) and finds its finish in the beautiful and lofty “ylaipi“ (tomorrow´s snow). For everyone who is still not satisfied fully after this 55 minute journey through nearly endless stringlisandi, we recommend the 45-minute bonus track which comes as digital download with the cd version on bandcamp.

MARSEN JULES AT GRM CD/DIGITAL OUT: NOV 10TH 2014 LABEL: OKTAF DISTRIBUTION: KOMPAKT LIMITED EDITION PRE ORDERS NOW AVAILABLE: WWW.OKTAF.COM More infos: www.oktaf.com | www.marsenjules.de

MARSEN JULES AT GRM CD/DIGITAL OUT: NOV 10TH 2014 LABEL: OKTAF DISTRIBUTION: KOMPAKT LIMITED EDITION PRE ORDERS NOW AVAILABLE: WWW.OKTAF.COM Following his highly acclaimed album „Beautyfear“, which is still featured besides Trentemöller and Bonobo in the top-ten of german chill out-charts, sound poet Marsen Jules bridges the time with the release of a conceptual mini album on his own Oktaf Records. The two tracks on the 35 minutes long album were created during a two week residency in the legendary GRM-Studios at Radio France in paris. The „Groupe de Recherches Musicales“ is an institute for the exploration of electroacoustic music. It was founded 1958 by composer Pierre Schaeffer, one of the main protagonists of the so called „Musique Concrète“, a musical movement that focused on recorded sounds and sound manipulations as a basis for compositions. Therefore the artists used tape recorders and record players as their instruments and widened the musical horizon, which till then was only defined through classical known instruments. Especially these ideas of defining every acoustic event as possible music and the approach to explore the individual universe of such a sound, have always been a big inspiration for the music of german Martin Juhls. Therefore it was a big honor for the artist to be able to work at this legendary space for two weeks in 2009. For the two tracks created at GRM Jules dives deeply into the level of subatomic sound-particles. Clusters of string crescendos emerge from a nearly psychoacoustic sound-wall of warm drones in which they disappear with ultra long fade outs and reverbs. A touching work - which has the quality to let the listener drown into it completely. More infos: www.oktaf.com | www.marsenjules.de

Après le sublime The Endless Change of Colour, Marsen Jules m'a une nouvelle fois conquis avec son nouvel album Beautyfear, d'une rare élégance, à la fois sombre, douce et profonde.