OMBILICUM

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Ombilicum

Projet parallèle de Bruno tourné vers l'ambient au départ, Ombilicum est peu à peu devenu une série d'exercices autour d'outils électroniques. OMBILICUM I. et II. SEASONS portent des structures binaires assez classiques, mélodiques, très "lounge". OMBILICUM III. KOKURA est basé sur l'improvisation et l'évolution des formes. OMBILICUM IV. COMPASS est un mix des II et III. OMBILICUM V. DREAMLANDS est clairement ambient, presque new age (voir plus bas). OMBILICUM VI. EXCELSIS s'engouffre dans une improvisation extrême, sans rhythme évident. A l'opposé, OMBILICUM VII. VIRUS est une sorte d'IDM, essentiellement basé sur le rythme et la répétition.

Ombilicum V. DREAMLANDS is a new age / ambient musical work on imaginary lands. Middleearth is a wandering on the green valleys of the Lord of the Rings. As I wanted the whole project to be really quiet, almost turning to new age instead of ambient, i opted for very simple rhythmic patterns. Here it's a clock and a clic. As if time was suspended in those 4 tracks. The background bed of the track is made of a treated guitar part played live. Strangely enough, that guitar part is actually quite fast and nervous if you listen to it solo. Pandora is a walk in the luxuriant forests of Avatar's Pandora with all these tiny little white petal things flying around. This one is major, which is quite rare in my ambient works from the beginning. It's a musical track, i.e. everything is composed and played, only the far background is a treatment of improvized guitar layers. Arrakis is a flight over the deserted Fremen dry and burning lands of Dune. This time, it is treatment mainly. Nothing is played, only looped or cut, pasted, reversed, doubled, slowered down. Quite a basic rhythm as in "Middleearth". I remember the tune in the soundtrack of David Lynch's version of "Dune" when they're flying over the desert : there's that absolutely freezing synth sound that makes such a contrast with the heat all around. Around 3'30, i improvized a string trio part, i don't know why. Maybe i was thinking of Duke Leto listening to music during the flight; or maybe that was the scene in the Amerzone game when the guy gets into the desolated lighthouse and an old phonograph is playing. Neverland sends you to the woods of the enchanted peaceful realm of Peter Pan. Still a guitar bed + movement in the background, ethnic percussions loops and a repetitive melody played live without following the beat. That one is relaxation driven i believe. Nothing really "happens", you just have to let yourself go into the sound.

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