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Biobazar : « Futuristic Psychedelic Archives » (STUDIO STÉRÉO)
It is remarkable how Dany Janvier's work has not stopped growing exponentially these last years, both in the picture and musical domains, and that he has not stopped evolving while remaining faithful to his influences of origin, because, even today, his raw material, drawn straight from images and sounds, continues to be tinged with a certain psychedelic.
Biobazar is the main musical embodiment of this singular route which continues here with the album "Futuristic Psychedelic Archives" which, incidentally, wears very well its title. Indeed, Biobazar revisits the foundations of the concept of psychedelics by integrating it into the almost infinite possibilities of the modern technology. Interesting fact, we can feel and especially hear on certain pieces, Richard Alpert's presence, accomplice of Timothy Leary, one of the most influential theorists of psychedelics. The new pieces of Biobazar have the merit of opening up the electronic music by adopting a composite style which suggests, through the various elements which define it, referents that, taken separately, seem familiar to us, but mixed, reinvent them completely.
And so, by lending an attentive ear, we can feel, for example, the hallucinatory atmospheres of The Orb, Big Beat percussive segments beating in Chemical Brothers, or sample sequences of almost industrial synthesizers which remind us of Front Line Assembly or Front 242, but all these references are distorted when combined. A single label is not enough to describe the hybrid music of Biobazar: techno, Break (Break dance) Beat, Dub, Downtempo, Electro, music of the world are so many right terms when we try to define it, but which remain at once restrictive if we want to fairly describe the coherence of the artwork.
Once again, on this album, the technique of sampling is privileged in the creative process. Of numerous extracts of films and TV programs, going from "Cheech and Chong" to "Altered States" to "La grande bouffe" and " Un homme et une femme", from musical segments pulled from obscure vinyl records and tracks of Field Recording incorporating sounds of nature captured in the Belgian countryside, see each other eradicated from their context and take quite a different sense wrapped in slightly acid textures, spatial and floating waves and sound floods sometimes sparkling, elastic and sinuous , sometimes metallic, organic and aerial.
Melodies, as for them, take shape, amongst other things, in the many wavy hues of keyboards, through the echo of flutes of Celtic consonances, the reverberation of strings of Asian accents, the depths of Jamaican bass and for the first time, in Dany Janvier’s voice who commits himself vocally to offer us a song of surrealist poetry. These melodic vectors move in an environment of structures sometimes minimalist and repetitive, sometimes progressive and bushy, but always, the sound details them with subtle ornaments which we discover or rediscover in every listening.
"Futuristic Psychedelic Archives" certainly comes to firm up the place which Biobazar cut itself on the stage of the electronic music in Quebec during the last years, and you can bet that last year’s recognition he acquired from his peers will become a recognition that will last for years.
Jean-François Fecteau
Le Vestibule
( http://www.myspace.com/levestibule )
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