• Laurent Peter has produced and released electronic music under the d'incise moniker since 2002, from dub to electronica,
gradually opening those styles to electroacoustic experimentations. With his projects Diatribes (an open formation with
drummer Cyril Bondi) and Karst (quartet with Bondi, Luc Muller and Abstral Compost), he is also involved in free
improvisation, for which he is using his laptop, live treatments and various contact miked objects. These projects have included
musicians such as Barry Guy, Keith Row, Jason Kahn, Christian Weber, Norbert Moslang, Hernani Faustino, Joao Pedro
Viegas, Tzii and many more. Finally, besides coordinating the insubordination netlabel, dedicated to improvised music, and
being a member of the audiactiviste netlabel, Laurent Peter is also active as a graphic designer.
Composed on a special request from ini.itu, “Rivages sur l'antipode” ( shores on the opposite side of the earth ) is his first vinyl LP and is
based on similar archival material as the one used by Francisco López in his stunning “untitled #228”. Nonetheless, d'incise has
achieved radically different results, combining digitally-processed textures, microsamples and humming harmonics rippling out over
broken rhythms. He has collaged the least obvious bits of gamelan, many grainy soundbytes from Jakarta, Makassar, Bandung and
Yogjakarta into a kaleidoscopic reinterpretation of these shattered fragments. Sudden transitions, alinear progressions and
melancholic, sprawling, autumnal atmospheres reveal a very personal soundworld.
This LP could evoke Kim Hiorthoy on sedatives under moist tropics, or an alter-ego of Burial in a futuristic decaying Jakarta won back
by the jungle, with hints of digital crispiness from Kid606 période Mille Plateaux; a touch of the microsampling of Akufen, all of this
marinated into the experiments in folk deterritorialisation made by some Ritornell artists such as Random_Inc / Sebastian Meissner.
Icing on the cake, this LP was mastered by James Plotkin in Philadelphia.
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