artist: VARIOUS ARTISTS
title: Dérives
label: Universinternational
country: France
format: CD
"First, there was the desire of an ambitious record, then to work with these artists, to
bring them together. Unavoidably, a rule had to be set, and everybody had
enough taste to bend it somewhat.

Francisco López, John Grzinich & Murmer, Rui Costa, Pali Meursault, Tô,
Maksims Shentelevs and Helena Gough have given us pieces built from an active
listening of their own environment.

Beyond a gallery of subjective pictures of the sound landscape, something
different emerged: maybe the very specific way an ear plugs to the world, and
makes the energy flow between the outside and the inside.

It won't be a surprise, then, if sometimes the landscape comes out as an abstract
form, discretely magnetic or radically electric. The pretext of active listening
possibly becoming, for the listener, an approach to the activity of listening : we
don't just hear what each artist has listened to, we also hear the listening itself, its
switching on, and that's maybe what makes most noise."
(Universinternational)