Music by Sonic Area
Directed by Yoann Amnesy
From « music for ghosts » album (2012)
Full album streaming and download :
Sonic Area. rarities (2003-2012) digital album. ant-zen dig030
tracklist:
01 the portrait room
02 nevermore
03 candle danger
04 dark ride (bass version).
05 le mur des sons (live @ paris – naf fest 2009)
06 par amour. 07 my ghost (live @ praha – 2011).
08 the queen. 09 les voix transpercees (live @ oberhausen – mf fest 2010)
10 les jardins suspendus (live @ strasbourg – 2007).
11 requiem for salaryman (live @ altenburg – ea fest 2007)
12 cruelle
13 why should everything be raped
14 u4
15 nous n’avons pas d’autres choix (live @ oberhausen – mf fest 2010)
16 time is unreal
17 the path of resilience
release date: 22.03.2013
created in 1997, sonic area (aka arco trauma) is a french electronic monocephalic project, influenced by dither, scorn, 2nd gen, hint, enio moricone and all suicide lullabies which mixes electro hybrid experimental, cinematic orchestral atmospheres, dirty abstract hip-hop, tribal industrial techno-punk, brutal wall of sounds, hard-glitch breaks and lush ambient soundscapes. disturbing, unexpectable and sometimes hard to describe,
it’s darkly intoxicating. imagine yourself sleeping in a lost factory built over sacred indian burial grounds…
‘rarities (2003-2012)’ includes 17 re-mastered b-sides, singles, live versions and rare tracks which were previously released on several label compilations. on this release you are about to discover the full spectrum of sonic area’s aural self-conception – impulsive, haunting, cinematic and demanding at the same time. let yourself go, and enjoy!
ant-zen. audio & visual arts
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SONIC AREA « music for ghosts » cd. ant-zen act277 / audiotrauma trauma023 is available here :
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tracklist:
01 never ever more
02 manifest yourself
03 the living carousel
04 the infernal clockwork
05 the endless staircase
06 eureka
07 dead muse
08 inframonde
09 haunted hall motel ballade
10 those eternal seconds
11 the magic storytellers
12 once more unto the breach dear friends
13 middle night ballet
14 funeral march of an empire
upc 821272305927. release date: 07sept2012. released in collaboration with audiotrauma. www.audiotrauma.org
« Due to my strong personnal convictions, I wish to stress that this album in no way endorses a belief in any religion or any cult.I believe in the truth i live and in the love i share. Do I believe in ghosts ? It depends of what you mean by ghosts. But if the question is : Am I haunted ? I definitely say yes. Whatever you might call it. The more one sees the world dying, the more one feels alive. Do not fear what it takes to get you there. Manifest yourself. »
Arco Trauma
sonic area is a quest to enlarge the doors of a living and therefore unpredictable sound universe. this project, which has been alive itself since 1997, is the alter ego of arnaud coëffic aka arco trauma (chrysalide, f.y.d.), co-founder of the french audiotrauma collective where he has published most of his releases. he has more than 100 live performances all over europe under his belt, and has collaborated with artists like punish yourself, hint, morbid angel, twinkle, ambassador 21 and muckrackers. disturbing, unexpectable and sometimes hard to describe, he admixes electro hybrid experimental, cinematic orchestral atmospheres, tribal industrial, hard-glitch breaks and lush ambient soundscapes carved with sampler, groove box and computer modifications.
what if you could travel in a musical h.g. wells-esque time machine driven by steam? what if danny elfman made a ‘blade runner’ soundtrack directed by david lynch? inspired by classical and experimental american sci-fi / horror / phantastic movie themes, by german
epic composers and by the aesthetic of french romantic melancholia, the incantations of ‘music for ghosts’ invite us into an imaginary ballroom / seance / circus / cabaret / theater / motel full of dancing shadows. performed with orchestral string samples, haunted organs,
deep granular basses, suggestive vintage sounds, triple time harsh broken beats, melancholic piano lines and even post rock electric guitars, this album creates an elegant alchemy between modern classical and industrial ‘avant garde’. mixing waltz, ballade, parade, ritualistic beats, progressive, heavy and conceptual atmspheres, it proposes an original and complex vision of our 20th century lost illusions. ghosts might even dance better than us, but they need the music for it. this is your invitation to join them, and to decide whether this is a danse macabre or a dance of resurrection. « so now for the living let the dead come alive and shake your bed… »
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