Roxane Métayer · Vies Sylvestres

Label: Blickwinkel / Genre: Ambient · Contemporain · Drone

TRACKS FOR VIES SYLVESTRES
1. Les arbres grincent pour se parler.
2. Temple bouddhiste Amidain, Ogimachi, île de Sado.
3. Les démons s'absentent.
4. Bulbul à oreillons bruns et autres oiseaux de l'île de Sado.
5. Kigi ga kotoba o kawasu tame karada o yusuri kishima seru. (version japonaise de Les arbres grincent pour se parler)
6. Fête du Daimyō Gyoretsu, Hakone.
7. Herbes argentées.
8. Criquets de Kurashiki.

The album was conceived and developed during performances and travels in Japan in 2023, where its sounds and ideas gradually came together.
Vies Sylvestres continues the direction of her previous release on Kraak, where Métayer built imagined narratives unfolding in forests or urban spaces inhabited by animal and plant characters. On this new album, however, the presence of these elements becomes more explicit and central. Field recordings are not solely used as backdrops but become compositions, complementing the instrumental works and expanding the album’s narrative into the realm of lived sound and place.
The listener encounters recordings of crickets and birds but we're also witnessing a scenery at a Buddhist temple. As such, combined with violin, electronics, and voice, Métayer explores the relationship between the natural environment and human culture. Her work bridges both worlds, showing how sound can connect different spaces and contexts.

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