The Shape ÷ Musique Concrète - Cinema Obscura

From the adventurous and bold mind of Philippe Fichot, mastermind and uncompromising head of the cult fetish Industrial/Electro outfit Die Form, comes a riveting new undertaking. DIE FORM ÷ MUSIQUE CONCRETE is the new experimental, instrumental, cinematic, ambient solo-project of this French avant-garde Industrial pioneer, containing songs composed from 2013 to 2014. The tracks were started during a recovery stay and were completed, improved, and mixed in the studio in 2015. Moreover, this project will be released on the original Die Form label Bain Total, reactivated in 2015!

For this extraordinary project by Die Form mastermind Fichot, many different sources have been elaborately used and put into action: analog and digital electronic tools in harmonic unison as well as noises and various tapes stemming from obscure sources – hence the "musique concrète" reference – as well as some natural and artificial voices to further build on the thin red line between the organic world and the realm of technology. This bold and courageous enterprise could be regarded as a transition between the past and the future, between man and machine, perpetually inspired by silence and meditation.

When words fail, it is the music that prevails. Graced with stunning artwork placed on the borderlands between dream and nightmare, set in a labyrinthine world of flesh and cables, that exquisitely echoes the musical mood of these unique tracks, "Cinema Obscura" is a speechless dictionary of human emotions. Of wrath, of anger, of loss, of failure, of despair. But also of hope, lingering in unexpected places. Of memories, of love. Sometimes, we don't need words to express what we feel. We just need to play records like this.

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