*70 copies limited edition* Eventless Plot and Bruno Duplant join forces on Fail better, a cassette release that treats failure not as an endpoint, but as a method of composition and a way of listening. Across two long-form pieces, the group carves out a delicate space between electroacoustic improvisation, minimalism and ambient abstraction, letting sounds appear, waver and erode rather than declaring them with force.
Recorded by the Thessaloniki-based trio of Vasilis Liolios, Aris Giatas and Yiannis Tsirikoglou together with Duplant, the music extends Eventless Plot’s long-term interest in hybrid sound worlds, combining acoustic instruments, small percussion, analog sources, field recordings and subtle processing into a single, breathing texture. Instead of dramatic climaxes, the pieces move through barely perceptible transitions, where each tone, scrape or resonance feels exposed, contingent and provisional, as if it might disappear at any moment.
On side A, the ensemble focuses on sparse, ringing sonorities and sustained tones that hover over a background of hushed activity, opening up a sense of suspended time. Side B deepens this approach with a slightly denser, more layered sound field, where piano, electronics and objects interweave in slow motion, testing the threshold between presence and absence, intention and accident. Throughout, silence is treated as a material in itself, framing each sound and allowing the listener to notice its grain, decay and imperfections.
Fail better sits within Eventless Plot’s evolving body of work as a kind of “post-confusion” music: a response to an overloaded information world through restraint, patience and microscopic detail rather than excess. Duplant’s sensitivity to space, found sound and graphic-score thinking meshes with the trio’s ensemble mind, dissolving individual identities into a collective, impersonal voice that quietly reconfigures how a group can play together. The result is a tape that rewards close, repeated listening, revealing new internal relationships and tiny shifts with each spin.
