MAAR

TRACKLISTING


A1. Le Motel & Bruce Wijn - La Perche
A2. Le Motel & Bruce Wijn - Niebla
A3. Le Motel & Bruce Wijn - Microcosmos
A4. Le Motel & Bruce Wijn - Nautilus
B1. Le Motel & Bruce Wijn - Captain Aha b
B2. Le Motel & Bruce Wijn - Seagulls
B3. Le Motel & Bruce Wijn - Blanken berge





INFO


Le Motel and Bruce Wijn met at school, during a school art trip to Munich. They went separate ways for a lon g time.

Hailing from Brussels, Le Motel's world is a vortex of sight and sound that takes in the many and varied corners of the planet. As a music pr oducer and film composer his versatility has taken him to festivals and clubs in every direction as naturally as he has ventured out to the less accessible area s of the globe as a field recordist. It's somewhere in between these spaces that Le Motel operates, gathering unique experiences and sounds to channelthrough hi s studio.

Bruce Wijn is a Brussels-based guitarist who played in seve ral postrock kind projects such as Sound Film, 52 Commercial Road, or more shoeg aze Lazy Sin. These collaborations gave him the opportunity to perform in variou s locations in Belgium, France, England, and the USA. As a musician, his focus h as always been attracted by progressively built rhythmic melodies, which would e ventually turn into long reverberated or distorted swells, or the otherway round .

All these experiences brought them both to the idea of scoring movi es with different yet similar approaches.

That's how their first coll aboration happened as Le Motel was working on the soundtrack of the movie Binti, and invited Bruce Wijn for the track Exode, in 2018. Since then, they've been w orking on other scoring projects, such as the feature film 'Aller Retour' more r ecently.

Alongside the movie scoring activities another audiovisual l ive project was born, in collaboration with Antoine de Schuyter and his mesmeriz ing images.

This one is more focusing on tape textures, field recordi ngs and glitchy effects in order to build atmospheric tracks that they decided t o bring together in a first E.P. 'MAAR'.

'MAAR' is elaborated as a so undtrack for an imaginary journey between cold seas and volcanoes explorations.< br />
From the first echoing sounds of playing kids on the shoreside in the opening track 'La Perche' Le Motel & Bruce Wijn let you slide in a technicolor dreamworld, reverbing slowly innocent childhood memories into a chilled, out of range, future.

'MAAR' dives deep into a kaleidoscopic microcosmos wat ching Nautilus playing hide and seek with 'Captain Ahab' floating on sonic break ing waves, while seagulls gently spread their wings flying through the breezy an d misty clouds of Blankenberge.

Lava vulcanica slowly melts in the sa d euphorica of the cold North Sea, crystallizing sounds only Le Motel and Bruce Wijn can deliver.

File under:
Waterproof & heat resistant vintag e seventies reel to reel tape wizardry.
Infused with technicolor electronic s for a bright careless sonic future.