Although individual tracks on “Play Piano and Sounds”, with its unambiguous title of resounding literalness, are attributable to either one or the other Laurent, the interspersed presentation and shared vision make this a collection of mutual inspiration rather than the already familiar encounter between classical/jazz musician and electronic producer.
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Kinetix / Pylône – Sonology
Both artists are masters of subtle movement and minuscule fluctuations, and both also express an aesthetic that escapes the constraints of time, casting the listener into uncharted depths filled with drones and half-formed sentience. “Sonology” is an excursion in perception and sublimity, and a fine example of artistic alignment.
Cape Fear – Winds Of The Dead Air
12″, Sound on Probation, 2010 http://www.soundonprobation.com/ So hard to put my finger on it, this album does remind me of something, but the name just won’t come up. But before [ … ]
Heal – Supernatural
12″, Sound on Probation, 2009 www.soundonprobation.com Laurent Perrier, the man with many faces, surprises again. We know him from releases under his own name, as Pylône, as Zonk’t, as Cape [ … ]
Zonk’t – Beat Wins You And Me
12″ EP, Sound On Probation, 2009 www.soundonprobation.com Former member of the cult industrial french band Nox, Laurent Perrier is now running the label Sound on Probation and releasing choreographic music [ … ]
Sound On Probation: an interview with Laurent Perrier
Some labels exist essentially as a vehicle for the output of a single artist and his several project. To date, that is the case with French label Sound On Probation [ … ]
Pylône – Grounded Hands
CD, Sound On Probation, 2008 www.soundonprobation.com A towering work of alien unease, Laurent Perrier’s second release as Pylône offers deeply hypnotic realms. “Grounded Hands” even improves on “Black Grains” (2006), [ … ]
Laurent Perrier – As Far As
CD, Sound On Probation, 2008 www.soundonprobation.com I could tell this was going to be a highly artistic experimental CD from the moment I took it out of the envelope. Packaged [ … ]
Zonk’t – -trope
CD, Sound On Probation, 2007 www.soundonprobation.com New releases by the French musician Laurent Perrier are highly anticipated and eagerly awaited by yours truly. The reason for this is last years [ … ]
Heal – Starting Back
CD, Sound On Probation, 2007 www.soundonprobation.com With “Starting Back,” minimal electronic authority and Sound on Probation label founder Laurent Perrier – a name familiar via such projects as Zonk’t and [ … ]