Vraiment Plus De Snipettes!!!
Ambiances Magnetiques, 2024
8/10
Listen to Vraiment Plus De Snipettes!!!
The 3rd installment in a series that began in 1992, the 25 mostly quick fragments here are yanked from reel-to-reel and cassette recorded archived material.
Early in the listen, the spoken word of “Tango enthousiaste” leads into a glitchy, artistic guitar and drumming that sounds like it’s constantly being interrupted, and it isn’t long until “Improviser” displays a disjointed and aberrant couple of minutes that nearly sounds sci-fi.
Further along, “Terry’s Electric Guitar” is full of odd progressions that might bring you back to backmasking a tape and looking for the hidden message, while “Morton & cie” recruits percussive exploration amid the sonic, video game-esque noises.
Deeper still, “Strange Ukulele” is actually warm and raw ukulele, and the 27+ minutes of “From Raymond á Micheline” exits with a kaleidoscope of sounds that could soundtrack a carnival, a rock concert, a spaceship or even a club.
A truly odd and yet captivating peek into Tétreault’s ultra-creative mind, there’s little reason to try and figure out what’s going on here, but every reason to just enjoy it.
Travels well with: Quatuor Bozzini- Alexandre David: Photogrammes; Eldritch Priest- Dormitive Virtue