Mantras

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Album Info

Release Date: 2017-07-12

Label: Standard In-Fi

3x cassette. 80 copies, silkscreen printed covers and insert.
Released 2017
In June 2016, the great-outdoors music festival Echos asked Ernest Bergez aka Sourdure to produce a series of ten "mantras" set to be diffused in between each
concert of the twenty-four hours event taking place in the french Alpes. These ten pieces were played on the festival's gigantic speakers/ horns system in the afternoon,
evening, night, morning, noon... and reverberated fully in the rocky valley. This edition gathers the field-recording-like captures of the tracks delivered once again
through the system later that year by Ernest Bergez with the help of Frédéric Bernier, Joachim Brissaud and Julien Dessailly.
All instruments by Ernest Bergez except the Gaida, the Uillean Pipe and the Low Whistle by Julien Dessailly. The tapes contain three complementary pieces
composed from the original recordings (June 2016 and November 2016) and recorded in Royat in May 2017. This edition also contains the graphic score and lyrics
of a song inspired by the event and the tenth mantra, thus the only piece not present on the tapes, also composed by Sourdure in May 2017.
A highly esoteric and cosmic soundscape journey, to be played at maximum volume!
Ernest Bergez deeply thanks Association Dôme and Association Les Villages des Jeunes.
Recorded in November 2016 in Faï and mixed in 2017 in Royat by Ernest Bergez.
Artwork by Standard In-Fi, printed by Antoine Lambin at Société Ecran.

Commandé par l'Association Dôme pour le festival Echos, les Mantras ont été composés par Ernest Bergez au Faï en Juin 2016.
Enregistré sur les trompes du Faï pour Standard In-Fi en Novembre 2016, avec le concours de Frédéric Bernier, Joachim Brissaud et Julien Dessailly.
Gaida, Uilleann Pipe et Low Whistle y sont joués par Julien Dessailly et tout les autres instruments par Ernest Bergez.
La présente édition contient trois pièces complémentaires composées à partir de matériaux originaux et enregistrés à Royat en Mai 2017.
Chaleureux remerciements à l'Association Dôme et l'Association Les Villages des Jeunes.
- Ernest Bergez -