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 LOUIS
DUFORT
Connexion
2001
empreintes DIGITALes
UK distribution by: ReR Megacorp, These Records, Touch
65:21
A recording that kicks off with shrill tinkling comparable to Maryanne
Amacher's Sound Characters and comes to a dramatic conclusion
reminiscent of Come to Daddy period Aphex Twin clearly knows
no barriers. From classical, to noise, to avant-garde mouth music, to
drum 'n' bass, the genres and sub-genres are all represented here, thick
and fast on each other's heels in a glorious welter of exquisitely produced
sound. The young Canadian composer Louis Dufort has a fascination
with cinema and a history of involvement with contemporary dance that
in part explains the extraordinarily visual nature of his work. This is
nowhere more true than the remarkable 'Pointe-aux-Trembles', the second
of the four pieces presented here, which gives a vivid picture of Montreal
oil refineries glittering against the night sky. A marvellous sense of
movement and depth is given in the exhilarating shifts from noise to silence
and back again. This is industrial music at its best, demanding total
concentration. Elsewhere 'Zenith' sounds like Edgard Varese on
acid, all billowing sheets of electronics and feverish incantations, uneasy
and ethereal. 'Transit' thumps and nags in disjointed throbs that come
together cogently. 'Decap', with its Stimmung gabbles, its furious
shouts and growls, its Wagnerian bluster, its frenetic rhythms that drop
over an abyss into edgy silences, is totally unnerving. An education for
the ears and a tonic for the mind, a chance to see clear visions with
your eyes shut tight.
STEWART GOTT - 7 March 2001
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