Sept fois cis, by Pierre-Nicolas Colombat et Henri Colombat

Sept fois cis

by Pierre-Nicolas Colombat et Henri Colombat

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Andre Colombat Everyday and in diferrent contexts the same piece tells different stories and then there are Henri's streams at the crossrodas with the progression of the album itself. Many thanks !

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1.	intro 00:19		buy track
2.	Thursday 9:51pm Neuer Saal 03:53	info	buy track
3.	20.8 16h15 Vlaskamp -> Schevenigsebos 03:00		buy track
4.	Friday 7:36pm Studio 2 03:44	info	buy track
5.	21.8 13h45 Regentesselaan -> Hollands Spoor 02:24		buy track
6.	Saturday 3:33pm Inselstrasse 03:56	info	buy track
7.	22.8 19h00 Regentesselaan -> Vlaskamp 02:32		buy track
8.	Sunday 10:41pm Kaysersbergerstrasse 04:06	info	buy track
9.	23.8 10h20 Vlaskamp -> Oude Molstraat 03:25		buy track
10.	Monday 8:16pm Tribschenmoosweg 03:38	info	buy track
11.	24.8 unknown 03:28		buy track
12.	Tuesday 11:43pm Vortragssaal 04:51	info	buy track
13.	25.8 unknown 02:08		buy track
14.	outro 00:49		buy track

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This release is an attempt at guerilla streaming. It is released on spotify and applemusic under a secret pseudonym. The pseudonym will be disclosed to those who purchase the album directly from us and would like to listen to it on streaming platforms.

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What if music was a unit of measurement? If we consider music itself as a recording device, what is it recording?

In this album, we wanted to use our music making as a way of capturing how we move through time in the day to day.

In late summer 2022, we made a series of daily recordings: 7 recordings of Pierre-Nicolas playing Frédéric Chopin's op. 64 no. 2 on a different instrument every day and 6 field recordings of Henri biking through The Hague. This album presents them interlaced with one another. In this way, it is not so much we that recorded the music. It is the tracks that are the record of that specific week of our lives.

The Chopin tracks are a mix of recordings made with an iPhone XS and a Zoom H2n. The Netherlands field recordings were also captured on a Zoom H2n and were subsequently used as material for electronic improvisations on a digital instrument created in Max 8. These improvisations were performed and recorded on a daily basis over one week in May, 2023. Two recordings were omitted from the final collection on account of poetic discretion.

"cis" as in C# in german - so 7 times Chopin's op. 64 no. 2 in C#

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released March 17, 2024

album artwork - Henri Colombat

Thank you to all of our friends who participated in the recordings and helped make this album possible.

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Henri Colombat Paris, France

Henri Colombat is a composer exploring the different possible relationships between poetic imagery, theatricality, sound and space.

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