Emmanuel Mieville

2014 release ** Limited edition of 100 hand-numbered copies copies in oversize card sleeve. "Observatoire, a Russian label known for its eclectic sound art and ambient music, is limited to 100 copies and available only on CD-R format. This split album features Emmanuel Mieville, a collector of environmental sounds from around the world; Dante Tanzi, a composer independently discovered by the label, a major achievement for the label; and the mysterious Japanese composer Hiroki Sakaguchi. This alb…

Tip! **60 copies limited edition** With "Four Towers and a Bridge", composer and field recordist, Emmanuel Mieville shares musique concrète spells and sonic bridgings of machinery acoustics. In the span of four tracks, electroacoustic sculptings and dronesque gestures intersect to form a seemingly continuous investigation of the mechanisms of passage. The album toys with sounds recorded in, on, and around technologies of crossing; from the Ponte Eiffel bridge in Viana do Castelo (Portugal) to th…