Lockdown in Lagash

Publié en mai 2024 sur le label australien Nice Music, ”Lagash” est le dernier opus du musicien Alastair Galbraith, basé à  en Nouvelle Zélande.

Galbraith est accompagné du guitariste Jackson Harry, suivi d'une face B consacrée entièrement à la splendide pièce instrumentale ”Lockdown In Lagash”, avec Galbraith au violon et Chris Heazlewood à la batterie.

” … dans la musique d’Alastair, il y a une sorte d’intimité et de quiétude, une sorte de solitude fonctionnelle… son écriture est si magnifiquement épurée dans sa structure de base, c’est quelque chose que j’apprécie sur le plan technique parce que je sais combien il est difficile d’être simple et réduit au nom d’un sens spécifique. Mais Alastair parvient d’une manière ou d’une autre à toucher davantage cet espace négatif et à rendre son vide tangible. Et je suppose que cette intimité parle également des aspects émotionnels auxquels je m’accroche dans sa musique… l’idée que l’on puisse prendre un moment ou un sentiment, et le suspendre dans le temps comme une miniature ou une sculpture… un monde sonore qui est si privé, chaleureux et délicat…” la compositrice canadienne Sarah Davachi

Nice Music presents ”Lagash” - the brand new album from Dunedin, New Zealand's legendary experimental songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and tape music idol Alastair Galbraith.

Enter 'Lagash', instantly a left turn at just 4 elongated tracks. 3 on the A side with accompaniment from guitarist Jackson Harry, followed by a B side entirely inhabited by 'Lockdown In Lagash' - a panicked dirge which sees Galbraith on fiddle, pitted against drummer Chris Heazlewood. 

"It’s hard to describe how Alastair’s music makes me feel, and it’s something that I’ve been trying to do for myself ever since I first fell in love with his records many years ago. In a concrete way, there’s a kind of intimacy and quietude, a sort of functional aloneness, that I admire so deeply in his music and that I aspire to in my own music. I’m consistently obsessed with the production and arrangement in his records. His songwriting is so beautifully sparse in its base structure, and that’s something that I appreciate on a technical level because I know how hard it is to be simple and reduced for the sake of a specific meaning. But Alastair somehow manages to touch that negative space further and make its emptiness tangible. And I suppose that this intimacy speaks to the emotional aspects that I latch onto in his music as well – from my perspective, what Alastair is so incredible at achieving in his music is the idea that one could take a moment or a feeling, and suspend it in time as a miniature or a sculpture of sorts that you can walk around and observe and maybe just sit with for a while. It’s an experience unlike much else..." - the Canadian composer Sarah Davachi 

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"pure speculation"  to listen to

as well  don't miss the movie "Eccentric Isles" which features conversations with Alastair Galbraith,  Bruce Russell, and other "free noise" activist in New-Zealand.

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