Lavrador, by Richard Bégin

Lavrador

by Richard Bégin

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Michael Borella Parts of Lavrador from Canadian sound artist and composer Richard Bégin could be generative. The opening shimmers and wafts over slow-moving bass notes, exploring a defined space with a particular sound palette. But as the album progresses it evolves into an exploration of synth-heavy drone accompanied by rhythmic patterns and hazy elements.

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2.	La commande centralisée 05:58	buy track
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"Lavrador" is a Portuguese term signifying peasant, plowman, or cultivator. Additionally, it is the name of the explorer João Fernandes Lavrador, associated with Labrador, a continental region in eastern Canada. Despite having a population of fewer than 30,000 inhabitants over an expansive area of nearly 300,000 square kilometers, this polar and subarctic expanse in the North Atlantic captivates with its dreamlike landscapes, vastness, tranquility, and solitude. Inspired by this immense terrain and the lives of the solitary peasants and isolated communities within it, each track on this album seeks to convey the essence of an ecology simultaneously fragile, merciless, and sublime. The title track incorporates samples from Kathryn O'Hara's radio documentary for CBC, titled "The Land God Gave to Cain, A Documentary Journey Down the Coast of Labrador" (1983).
The album Lavrador aims to evoke a broader sense of being lost — lost in one's own home, in solitude, amidst work and isolation. It acknowledges that every region on the planet has its own Lavrador, a place of profound personal significance and introspection.

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released January 18, 2024

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New from the ever awesome Reverse Alignment label is Lavrador by Richard Bégin – an album inspired by the polar and subarctic expanse of Labrador, a continental region in eastern Canada. Each track on this remarkable album “seeks to convey the essence of an ecology simultaneously fragile, merciless, and sublime” – combining drones, synths, and field recordings to create deep and textured music that is quite simply breath-taking. This is is one of those albums that is stunning from start to finish. Very highly recommended for those who like a sense of solitude and introspection in their music. Magnificent!

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Born in Quebec city, Richard Bégin is a professor of media and film studies at the University of Montreal and a researcher-creator in art and sound design. “Phase 5” is the result of his research on disaster as a medium of perception. Working as much from electronic instruments, analog sound devices and field recordings, he arranges and combines sounds in such a way as to generate affects related to memory, loss and fragmentation. Inspired by both hauntology, the post-apocalyptic imagination, noise, Frank Zappa and the smell of wet wood, his work is the sound accompaniment of Paul Valery's phrase: " the future is not what it used to be".

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Mastering by Raffaele Pezzella (a.k.a. Sonologyst).
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