Artist: Frederic Gerchambeau / Nicolas Guillemant
Tracklist:
- Primitive Blue One 11 mn 12
- Primitive Blue Two 10 mn 01
- Primitive Blue Free 15 mn 49
- Primitive Blue Four 14 mn 11
Primitive Blue is the result both convoluted and out of any listed style of my meeting with Nicolas Guillemant, another electronic musician. Crossed over on the French-speaking forum Anafrog, I immediately liked his musical style, which was very personal, very melodic and very daring. It was I who, through an email, expressed my strongest desire to make an album with him. As I own a modular Eurorack and he has a Moog Matriach, I thought it would be interesting to have our two machines talk. So we married my way of doing sequences with his way of creating superb melodic climates. This resulted in four long tracks where evolutionary sequences, moving melodies, simple but heady rhythms, and track manipulation finally blend together in a rather strange way to add an enigmatic touch to all of this. The goal was to find somewhere the feeling of freedom of the krautrock of the mid-1970s, by thinking of Cluster or Harmonia, without trying to copy them at all, but by returning to this absence of prohibition in favor of pieces of an almost primitive simplicity but yet full of subtleties. In fact, Primitive Blue, listened to in its continuity, is a musical journey of a little over fifty minutes crossing climates that are both relatively similar and objectively different, like the four well-characterized regions of the same musical universe.
