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Akira Rabelais: ...bénédiction, draw.

Full length CD. Availiable June 2003

Fluttering like a bird's wings the music begins. Moving backwards and forwards at the same time, not standing still but describing the present moment as an eternity.

"...bénédiction, draw." is Akria Rabelais' third major work, a 71-minute piece for electric guitar, processed with Argeiphontes Lyre, his very own audio software, consisting of a set of time domain filters performing esoteric algorithms. In the best sense of a musique d'ameublement it shows itself as an acoustic state rather than a sonic wallpaper.

Like his former offerings "Elongated Pentagonal Pyramid" and "Eisoptrophobia" (both to be found on Mille Plateaux' sister label Ritornell) "...bénédiction, draw." is a true masterpiece of digital music, incomparable with anything else around.

- Stephan Mathieu

More info at www.akirarabelais.com.


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Tracklisting & mp3's:

1. Pourtant, sous la tutelle invisible d'un Ange
2. L'Enfant déshérité s'enivre de soleil,
3. Et dans tout ce qu'il boit et dans tout qu'il mange
4. Retrouve l'ambroisie et le nectar vermeil.
5. Il joue avec le vent, cause avec le nuage,
6. Et s'enivre en chantant du chemin de la croix,
7. Et l'Esprit qui le suit dans son pèlerinage
8. Pleure de le voir gai comme un oiseau des bois. [mp3]