Sans Chemin

Vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release. For his Shelter Press debut, Thomas Bonvalet aka L'ocelle Mare presents an album that's considerably more than the sum of it's conceptual parts, constructing "anti-compositions" that are - on the face of it - utilitarian rotations through an array of instruments, with a tracklisting that reads like nothing more than a basic gear list. Through some sort of alchemy, the recordings transform into a poetic body of work, an engrossing sleight of hand that lands somewhere between Pierre Bastien's mechanical installations and the oblique mysticism of sacred music, buried between the notes.