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Title:  Mort Aux Vaches - Exosphere Artist:  Main Label:  Mort Aux Vaches Format:  CD Price:  € 14.80   Mp3 samples:   1   2

Title Description:
Exosphere:

The sound sources for this piece are derived from field recordings made in transit on a short series of Main concerts around Europe.

Most of Main's composition has a sense of movement and descriptive tone of space/ expanse which are often derived or inspired from field recordings that are site specific in a larger context.
To change tact, I had the idea of documenting the almost forgotten part of a journey : The relatively short or connecting trips made between hotels and stations/ airports etc., which are often considered uninteresting, as we are mentally preparing for the bigger part of the journey.

Vital Review:
MAIN - MORT AUX VACHES: EXOSPHERE (CD by Staalplaat)
There was a time when Main seemed to be arriving a dead end in his career.
His guitar strummings that were processed into richly layered fields of
ambient isolationism were still quite good, but didn't show much innovation.
From unstrapping the guitar and starting up the computer, Main moved away
into musique concrete territory and goes onto new paths of sound
exploration. His albums on Kraak and Tigerbeat6 were fine examples of his
computer treated field recordings, and this album is no different. Main, nom
de plume for Robert Hampson (at one point a member of Loop, but who
remembers that?), goes out with his microphone and tapes sounds from the
environment. Upon returning to the studio he feeds the sounds into his
computer and processes them. Unlike many others in the same area (think Roel
Meelkop, Micheal Northam, or Bernard Gunter), Main opts for a more droney
and stretched out sound. It's the trademark of Main: still thickly layered
fields of sound, with minimal processing and slight changes and throughout
hard to recognize any sound. Was that a churchbell ringing? Maybe. Only the
train announcer of Amsterdam Central Station can clearly be heard in the
natural reverb of the building. It's only here when we tap into the real
world, but it's so sparse. Main transforms the real world into his own world
- a world which is based upon sounds of the real world, but re-created into
a world that he feels comfortable in. A world that I can fully agree with. A
much nicer place. (FdW)