Benoit Moreau
Les Mortes (2LP, Red)
Format2LPLabelSpeckled TosheGenreExperimental
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*2025 stock* The project is a musical composition that employs the technique of deriving and expanding upon the fragmentary. It is an investigation that is, in advance, lost in the midst of stories that come back again and again, told in disorder, illuminated from other angles or revealed by new links. Les Mortes is a sonic saga that brings together three musical ensembles with different aesthetics navigating among these bits and pieces of a whole of which we have only the echo.
Stories of a funeral fanfare, of voiceless rap, of absence and violence, and of a text too harsh, too indigestible, that spins out autopsy reports ad infinitum, the consequences of a very real feminicide. This text, retranscribed from the novel 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (Chile, 1953-2003), concentrates in itself what inspired the labyrinthine journey of this concert: a fragmented form used as a source of derivation and expansion. A spiral in which certain loops draw us upwards or, on the contrary, accelerate our fall.
A spiral whose axis is this text. It gives substance to the mysterious evil around which Bolaño’s work revolves. It is the only surviving fragment to appear in this concert, in a totally dried-up form, at the center of the sound journey. The sensation of déjà-vu haunts the listening as it does the reading.
Format
Contrechamps
Simon Aeschimann: guitar
Serge Bonvalot: tuba
Laurent Bruttin: clarinets
Sébastien Cordier: percussion
Noëlle Reymond: double bass
Rabasta
Laurent Estoppey: saxophone
David Meier: drums
Benoît Moreau: organ, electronics
Immanuel de Souza: guitar
110
La Gale: vocals
Luc Müller: drums
The four sides are edited by Benoît Moreau
from the live recordings made at
6 Toits in Geneva on 3 and 4 November 2022.
Side A: fragments 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 25, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37, 38
Side B: fragments 39, 3, 32, 1, 2
Side C: fragments 4, 110, 8, 9, 38
Side D: fragments 11, 5, 9, 34
October 20, 2023
Composition: Benoît Moreau
Text: Roberto Bolaño, La Gale, Benoît Moreau
Sound engineer: Christophe Egea
Recording and mixing: Samuel Albert
Mastering and cut: Frédéric Alstadt
Collections of Fragments : Ariel Garcia
Illustrations: Thibault Messerli
Release notes
Contrechamps Simon Aeschimann: guitar Serge Bonvalot: tuba Laurent Bruttin: clarinets Sébastien Cordier: percussion Noëlle Reymond: double bass Rabasta Laurent Estoppey: saxophone David Meier: drums Benoît Moreau: organ, electronics Immanuel de Souza: guitar 110 La Gale: vocals Luc Müller: drums The four sides are edited by Benoît Moreau from the live recordings made at 6 Toits in Geneva on 3 and 4 November 2022. Side A: fragments 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 25, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37, 38 Side B:…
| A1 | Face A | 19:36 | |
| B1 | Face B | 18:07 | |
| C1 | Face C | 20:40 | |
| D1 | Face D | 18:58 |
- Ariel Garcia
- Adapted By (Text)
- Laurent Bruttin
- Clarinet
- Benoît Moreau
- Composed By, Organ, Electronics, Text By
- Noëlle Reymond
- Double Bass
- David Meier
- Drums
- Luc Müller
- Drums
- Christophe Egea
- Engineer
- Immanuel de Souza
- Guitar
- Simon Aeschimann
- Guitar
- Thibault Messerli
- Illustration
- Frédéric Alstadt
- Mastered By, Lacquer Cut By
- Sébastien Cordier
- Percussion
- Albert Samuel
- Recorded By, Mixed By
- Laurent Estoppey
- Saxophone
- La Gale
- Text By, Vocals
- Roberto Bolaño
- Text By
- Serge Bonvalot
- Tuba
