BOMBINA

A double 7" brings together four sonic meditations of Aymeric de Tapol in all its amateur spiritualism. As his third release with Ångstrom Records, it acts as a strange mirror that bends the sense of what drone & continuous music might be. Each track opens an alternate door that invites us toward the experimental ephemeralism of Aymeric de Tapol's idiosyncratic reveries.

The album opens with the recurring bounce of 'Autohypnose'. As we eavesdrop on Aymeric de Tapol in what can be heard as an accidental rendition of Raymond Scott's Soothing Sounds for Baby, he punctuates the rhythm with subconscious free associations. Rather than simply a means to calm infants, this music——as the title suggests——lulls de Tapol into a stream of unconsciousness before slipping into sleep.

'Musiquer' continues the meditative foray, but now a chance occurrence lends its soundscape. Reminiscent of the polyrhythms present in Aka Pygmy music, Aymeric de Tapol captures a Romanian midnight where frogs and other animals chant and intone.

We once again eavesdrop on Aymeric de Tapol for the third selection: 'Des rons-rons des esprits'. It is an inchoate music: the initial moments of a song's fermentation, just prior to it becoming music. 'rons rons' is exactly these beginnings. Listen close and you will hear the initiating purrs of de Tapol before he dozes off.

'Flûtexus' closes the set of reveries. On the road to P'tit Fays festival, to the retrochronic collisions of DJ New Sensation, Aymeric de Tapol asks: how to make continuous music without electronics? A simple experiment results involving circular pan flutes and a speeding car. Here, the breath normally animating the flute is exchanged for the steady wind outside the car's window: a lush drone.