David Grubbs, Luke Fowler
J'ai Pensé Sans Paroles (LP)
FormatLPLabelShelter PressGenreExperimental
Preorder: Releases November 13th 2026 (ships as soon as it is released)
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The first album together by the Glasgow artist and filmmaker Luke Fowler, winner of the first Derek Jarman Award and Turner Prize nominee, and the Brooklyn musician and writer David Grubbs, co-founder of Squirrel Bait, Bastro and Gastr del Sol.
The title piece, about thirty minutes long, is a 2024 work for piano and recorded sounds that grew out of Fowler's two portrait films of Brunhild Ferrari, N'importe quoi (for Brunhild) and N'importe quoi (Extérieur Jour). It weaves together sound material provided by Ferrari herself, field recordings by Eric La Casa from Paris and Montreuil, an excerpt of a 1987 piano piece by Wolfgang Meyer Tormin, and new piano and electronics by the two. It was recorded in Glasgow, in Brooklyn and at La Muse en Circuit in Alfortville, and mixed with Samuel J. Smith at Green Door Studio. The second piece, 'Verbal Equinox', focuses on the interplay between the two players.
The live version premiered at Giorno Poetry Systems in New York and has been played at Cafe Oto, Radiophrenia, Les Ateliers Claus and La Muse en Circuit. Released by Shelter Press.
