Reines D'Angleterre

Featuring: Ghedalia Tazartes

condition (record/cover): NM / NM

The second LP by Reines D'Angleterre ("Queens of England"), the collaboration between Ghédalia Tazartès and èlg and Jo (the duo who also record together as Opéra Mort). Released 2012 on Bo' Weavil Recordings (WEAVIL 50), the album follows the trio's 2010 debut Les Comores (Sidra Records) and moves the project from its initial improvisational basis into a fully structured studio collaboration.

Recorded at Clunk Studio in Berlin on 25-26 November 2009 by Rashad Becker, mixed in Brussels at Empire Digital Studio and mastered at D&M in Berlin (also by Becker), Globe Et Dynastie is a stranger and more fully-realised statement than the debut. Tazartès' multi-tracked vocal apparitions float across electronic landscapes built by Opéra Mort: deep crusts of industrial noise, slowly-grinding 4/4 pulse structures, drifting Fourth-World-adjacent atmospheres, occasional moments of pure ritual chant. The trio occupies a musical territory that simultaneously suggests Tibetan-industrial complexes, undersea zoological gardens and synthetic jungles, with Tazartès acting as a kind of medium between his collaborators' electronics and some older performative tradition.

The original vintage Bo' Weavil Recordings pressing on WEAVIL 50, limited to 500 hand-numbered copies, in an all-white spot-varnish gatefold sleeve, with Damien Beaton's design and an insert card numbered by hand. Globe Et Dynastie is the most fully realised document of Tazartès' post-2000 work, and a clear example of how his vocal practice translated into ensemble collaboration with younger French electronic musicians.