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Intercontinental ambient supergroup Faures about originality, technology and influences.

Me, Rene Margraff and Sam Landry aka grouchy men's club aka Faures were interviewed by Tobias Fischer of Tokafi magazine on the topic of originality.

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Faures - Contintental Drift (Home Normal) By 2014, even discussing instrumentation of ambient music with any sense of wonder seems a little irrelevant. Most instruments imaginable have been used in the creation of various drones and soundscapes. Probably the most common acoustic instruments used are guitar and piano; these two are probably my favourites, too, so it is perhaps no surprise that Continental Drift by Faures is right up my street. Still, let's talk mood. It's quite common for music to represent an artist's surroundings (Richard Skelton the hill-walker; Deaf Center and their spooky Scandinavian sound), but a project like Faures - three artists from Germany, Canada and Singapore - has no immediate geographical or social setting. It is remarkable, then, how consistent Continental Drift is in tone, with no hint that these collaborative pieces were put begun and finished by different artists, depending on the track. That is not to suggest it's a samey album (at least by ambient/drone standards), just that the coherency is that which you'd expect of a tightly planned concept record. Despite the bleak looking cover, this is an album of bright sounding music. Broad sweeps of electronic and processed sound are the canvas on which Continental Drift is painted; sweeps which suggest open vistas, vast skies and a new sense of hope. This is uplifting music, but not sentimental music. Onto this canvas we find piano and electric guitar, sometimes high in the mix, playing a beautiful melody; other times soaked in reverb and barely audible above the rich tones of the backing reverb. Things change from time to time: 'Asthenospheric Movement II' brings elements of noise into the mix; whilst Isostatic Uplift, contrary to one reading of its name, is probably the most sombre piece on the record, a moody minor key piece with a pensive sounding percussive acoustic guitar loop. Of all the things that link the three artists, it's a sense, and appreciation, of space that is the most obvious. Whilst rich in texture, the drones on display here don't fill the room; instead, they simply occupy a certain place in the sonic landscape, allowing everything to fit around them, be it other instruments, or silence. This appreciation of space is what gives the music of Continental Drift its feeling of vast proportion, and in that sense, the title is entirely fitting for this beautiful collection of ambient pieces. Grab it from the Home Normal Bandcamp.

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Faures — Magnetic Striping

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This is it folks. Feb is the month when physical copies of the Faures album will be out and delivered (hopefully without any more delay from the Japanese customs). For those who pre-ordered it, René Margraff, Le Berger (Sam Landry) and myself are very grateful for your support and interest. You can now stream the album in its entirety. Much love and gratitude to Mr Ian Hawgood for having us on Home Normal. "It let them float and drift, break apart and converge. Where they broke away, cracks, rifts, trenches remain; where they collided, ranges of folded mountains appear." Hans Cloos Continental Drift came about from an idea inspired by Alfred Wegener's book The Origin of Continents and Oceans. Fuzz Lee (elintseeker) is a believer in the romantic notion that a person is truly shaped by the landscape and environment the person is in. A person's personality and character in daily life, because of the environment that he or she is in, will also be expressed naturally in musical form. With that in mind, what would the results be when three individuals from three different continents with their own unique approach and style to music making are made to work together? René Margraff (Pillowdiver) from Germany and Samuel Landry (Le Berger) from Canada were specifically invited by Fuzz to join him in this musical experiment. The tracks are made in a 3-way 'triangular' process. Each musician has to come up with two tracks or samples, pass it on to the second musician from the next continent to work on and once that musician is done, he will then pass the tracks on to the third and final musician from another continent who will do the same. The tracks can only be worked on once for each musician. If you replace 'continents' with 'sound' in structural geologist Hans Cloos' quote about the continental drift theory, the creation, mixing, layering and other working processes of the samples and tracks are not too dissimilar, "It let them float and drift, break apart and converge. Where they broke away, cracks, rifts, trenches remain; where they collided, ranges of folded mountains appear". These 6 tracks are the 'trenches', the 'cracks', 'folded mountains' and 'rifts' in musical form."