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Corps et Biens is a special album. During his long and legendary artistic life, the British Lawrence Casserley performed the sounds of live processing of many instruments and formations, but he very rarely did it with only a human voice on the desk. The latter is provided here by the Belgian vocalist and voice artist Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, who can also claim to be a legend of the genre, at least in the continental dimension. The album is divided into fifteen episodes, formed into seven chapters, and is inspired by the poetry of Robert Desnos. This recording is definitely worth listening to!
The Belgian's range of vocal abilities seems to be as wide as his creativity. And perhaps the most important thing, what places the artist beyond the standard of voice improvisers, is his incredible sense of humor, self-distance, and artistic frivolity. The musician produces sounds with his whole body, of which the throat and vocal cords are merely a spectacular culmination. He talks to us, laughs, parodies, clucks like Donald Duck, whinnies, neighs, and can imitate any animal. He lisps, purrs, sings while shaving, builds ambient vocalizations, intensely smells the scents of nature and buzzes like a bee. Casserley thrives in this madness and seems to be a musician born for the electronic deconstruction of the voice. We know very well that the Briton also spins his own separate stories - delicate, fleeting, as dreamlike as they are mysterious. There is still the literary layer of this delicious album, the exploration of which I leave to more advanced listeners who have time. Andrzej Nowak (Spontaneous Music Tribune) |