Formats
BING119 - LP
600197011911
Details
While they’ve released records on their own, and even collaborated in the past (Orcas), Rafael Anton Irisarri and Benoit Pioulard have never made music quite like they do with Gailes. This is a pure winter doldrums soundtrack, when the stillness after a snowstorm ends elongates into deep contemplation. It’s not surprising that Seventeen Words was conceived, composed and recorded as the duo weathered a brutal winter squall, the remains of which can be viewed on the album’s artwork. This is bottomless music, minimal in sound yet majestic in presentation. Snow slows, time freezes. This is the world of Gailes, just a fragment of our own writ large for eternity.
Tracks
1. Requiem For An Airport Television
Newsreader
2. That Name (Again)
3. Surface Variations In The Snowfall
4. On Distant Fields
Press
? Collaboration between Rafael Anton
Irisarri (The Sight Below) and Benoit
Pioulard, who previously worked together
as Orcas
? Soundtrack to pure winter doldrums