the new akufen/marc leclair album

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has anyone heard this, or heard much about it? all i know is that it's called 'musique pour 3 femmes enceintes' and i think it's out next month. i did find this review in french, which translates to this.

the google translator is not good for record reviews:

"However, Musique for 3 pregnant women is not only most accessible from its repertory, but one could practically sell it with pharmacy. It is not a question, with itself, of one following its famous album My Way ; rather a parallel project, conceived in very an other spirit that its labelled productions and remix Akufen. Diverting its glance of the track of dance, Leclair proposes here a more instinctive album, reduced of its atypical rhythmic architectures, consciously rassemblor."

― rm265, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

"And even if you do not buy it for a pregnant woman, say you that this album is also ideal to involve you to make babies..."

― W i l l (common_person), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

"Groovy Foetus"

This is the first I've heard of this, I'm looking forward to it.

― W i l l (common_person), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

MARC LECLAIR (aka AKUFEN) 'Musique Pour 3 Femmes Enceintes' | MUTEK - mtk_fab04 - CD
Releasedate: 18.03.05
Info: Mastered by Stefan Betke (Pole), this is finally Marc Leclair's first studio album in nearly 3 years. "Musique pour 3 femmes enceintes" was originally performed to critical acclaim at the TATE MODERN, UK in 2003. Repeated listens prove once again MARC LECLAIR's depth, virtuosity and diversity as a musician.

(Not my words, obv.)

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

is that supposed to be a satie reference??

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i checked him out doing a performance of this at the tate modern with golan levin and janek schaeffer. it was pretty good, quite lovely, except for the fact that it has quite a lot of running water sounds in it because it's music for pregnant women - apparently composed when loads of his female friends got pregnant at the same time. still good ans skippy and quite playful. next time, just post the french review and i'll translate it, for god's sake!

― stelfox, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

he did post (a link to) it!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"Somewhere along the way, in the history of records, you pass by the cemetary of useless albums - which certain twisted spirits consider a goldmine of impossible music...

Many passageways in this sepulchre of misunderstood artists hold functional records: yoga albums, albums of cosmic meditation by Madame Minou, compilations to sell Cadbury products, or a "callage" lesson with original commentary from an expert hunter.

Akufen's music is complex, but it manages to maintain a precarious balance between a music both learned (or, at any rate, learnedly conceived) and festive. Microhouse, glitch-house - LeClaire didn't invent this subgenre of techno, but he's certainly taken up the idiom while pushing a resolutely original sound that's reserved for initiates.

(The conclusion doesn't seem to fit with the first sentence so maybe I have something wrong?)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

So... is it dance music?

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

The combination of the review and my clunky translation = glitch-write!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

IF it really is a yoga album I am very excited.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

It is a pregnancy album. Each song is one of the nine months

― blawa (blawa), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

(The conclusion doesn't seem to fit with the first sentence so maybe I have something wrong?)

No, I think it's just a poorly written article (I say "think" because my comprehension of French is nothing to brag about these days, so I'm more than open to the notion that I am misunderstanding some things).

His point -- lots of people attempt to make New Age-y concept albums and most of them suck but LeClair's is actually quite good -- isn't well stated, IMO.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

here was my response: that fucking bird call sound

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

haha!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

course the audience was fucking rude. i was there!

― stelfox, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

so i think this comes out this week. this site has 5 MP3 clips plus a quick write-up. definitely sounds different from his stuff as akufen, but has anyone heard the rest?

love the sound of the water and thunder on track 5 on my headphones.

― rajeev (rajeev), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 05:58 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

This album is really, really good.

I'd venture to call it one of the most accessible and cohesive ambient-glitch/clicks and etc. I've heard in a good while.

― EDB, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 16:51 (sixteen years ago)

nine months pass...

/\/\/\/\/\ THIS

― ●●●●●●●● (EDB), Friday, 26 March 2010 17:51 (fifteen years ago)

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