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Comte, Richard
Travel Patterns [CD EP]

Comte, Richard: Travel Patterns [CD EP] (nunc.)

An album of languorous guitar motifs, slowly unfolding in a mesmerizing haze intended to accompany a traveller as landscapes pass, contemplative daydream listening as a mesmeric addition to one's environment in momentum, presented in four "Patterns" that allow the rich tones and harmonics of French electric guitarist Richard Comte to ring out a rich journey.
 

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Label: nunc.
Catalog ID: 004
Squidco Product Code: 32083

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2017
Country: France
Packaging: Cardstock Sleeve, sealed
Recorded by the artist.

Descriptions, Reviews, &c.

"Travel Patterns weaves sonic motifs into a rich sensory experience for the traveller/listener. The hypnotic flow of suspended and stretched sound unfurls like a landscape... Consciousness wanders, detached from reality, and slips into an internal elsewhere. The destination matters less than the voyage itself.



Nunc is an independent label dedicated to liberated, open music, centred around the experience of sound in the moment ; a free space for research and collaboration."-nunc.


Artist Biographies

"Richard Comte is focused on the sonic possibilities of the guitar, drawing timeless spaces, from loud immersive drones to spacious resonances bordering on silence itself. He played with improvisers Simon H. Fell, Mark Sanders, Shabaka Hutchings, Mars Williams, Jim Black, and he interpreted contemporary music pieces from Michael Pissaro, Eliane Radigue, Fausto Romitelli. He works also in the field of contemporary dance, theater and visual arts. In 2017 he founded Nunc., a label dedicated to liberate and open music."

-Richard Comte Website (http://www.richardcomte.com/RichardComteWebsite/Richard_Comte_Website.html)
11/20/2024

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Track Listing:



1. Travel Patterns, Pt. 1 3:37

2. Travel Patterns, Pt. 2 5:37

3. Travel Patterns, Pt. 3 5:33

4. Travel Patterns, Pt. 4 4:34

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