Spring Break
VINYL, LP, COMPILATION - Released in 2018 - STROOM 〰
VINYL, LP, COMPILATION - Released in 2018 - STROOM 〰
The music on ‘Spring Break’ was selected by Ziggy Devriendt (aka Nosedrip) the founder of the heritage label STROOM 〰.
‘I work very long on projects. A lot of archival labels focus on licensing stuff and putting out a reissue. What I try to do is get in personal contact with the artist, and try to hear everything they did.’ says Ziggy to Tristan Bath from The Wire. (You can read full interview here (The Wire - Issue 409 - March 2018).
It is the cult track 'Cada Día' from 'Nightfall in Camp' an early incarnation of Pablo’s Eye that brought them in touch with STROOM 〰 end 2017. From there on it was all about forging a real relationship. For this first compilation (2 others are planned) it was decided to present the softer air-beatings of Pablo’s Eye.
'Spring Break’ is a summary of Pablo’s Eye’s legacy and also an introduction to Pablo’s Eye for the next generation.
‘Pablo’s Eye is the science of studio pressure, when engineer becomes artist. Appropriating left and right as well as front and back, Pablo’s Eye uses the mixing desk to examine and exhaust the possibilities of moments. Pablo’s Eye is a record of that examination and exhaustion, but it is also a record of its own inner space. By means of depth placement, psychoacoustics and spatial fug, Pablo’s Eye is experienced in the deeper reaches of the body, bypassing the conscious part of the mind entirely. Pablo’s Eye is the turning of recorded music inside out to show its seams. It interrogates a song, stripping down the body of the song to reveal its bones.Pablo’s Eye is in the interstices of music, it plugs the gaps, fills the holes.Pablo’s Eye seeks out the concealed mechanisms, it is a song’s hidden agenda.’
Text by Richard Skinner
Text by Richard Skinner
The cover of 'Spring Break' was designed by Nana Esi. Nana managed to break the usual Pablo’s Eye’s design aesthetic in a very striking way. The portrait of Chris and Pee is emotional, intense and powerful. Pablo’s Eye thank her for this.
Selection by Ziggy Devriendt from following albums:
- ‘You love Chinese food’ - Extreme XCD 031 (1995)
- ‘Devotions’ - Celsius Blanco CDP 431957 (1992)
- ‘Barcelona, architects of’ - Celsius Blanco CDP431956 (1991)
- ‘all she wants grows blue’ - Swim~ WM11 (1998)
- ‘Realismo’ - Surface To Air CB431958 (1999)
Music composed and played by Pablo’s Eye. Lyrics written by Pablo’s Eye. Mixed and produced by Axel Libeert & Erwin Autrique. Artwork, Graphic Design by Nana Esi. Mastering by Uwe Teichert.
Axel Libeert: guitars, sampler, keyboards, percussions & voices. Marie Mandi: voice. Thierry Royo: guitar, bass, keyboards, percussions & voices. Patrick Hanappier: violin. Dirk Wachtelaer: drums, electrobox & percussion. On track A2 “Double language” Ben Bollaert: keyboards. On track A3 “La Pedrera“ & B2 “El Barrio Gótico” Gino Lattuca: trumpet. On track A2 “Double language” found voices collected by Dominique Prud’homme & James H. Sidlo. On track A4 “That night togehter with her” Dallas Simpson from 4'09" until the end (This is an extract from his piece entitled 'Settlement' which he recorded in Port Erin, Isle of Man).
Tracklist Spring Break - STROOM 〰 STRLP-012 (April 2018)
A1 Blind and quiet - 1’28”
A2 Double language - 3’48”
A3 La Pedrera - 2’37”
A4 That night together with her - 5’09”
B1 Otis (Rumours of rain) - 2’42”
B2 El Barrio Gótico - 2’12”
B3 Amb 7 - 6’02”
B4 A long standing dream - 6’49"
A1 Blind and quiet - 1’28”
A2 Double language - 3’48”
A3 La Pedrera - 2’37”
A4 That night together with her - 5’09”
B1 Otis (Rumours of rain) - 2’42”
B2 El Barrio Gótico - 2’12”
B3 Amb 7 - 6’02”
B4 A long standing dream - 6’49"
'The 8 tracks here feel assembled as much as arranged, designed as much as composed. Sounds have undoubtedly been picked for their audio quality, but they’ve been layered on the canvass in the way a painter uses colours.'
You can read Daryl Worthington's full review for Inverted Audio here.
You can read Daryl Worthington's full review for Inverted Audio here.
'Opener "Blind And Quiet" sets the scene with backmasked guitar, tremulous bass drones and animalistic breathing, gently pulling us into the deep dreamspace which Pablo's Eye call home.'
You can read Piccadilly Records full review here
You can read Piccadilly Records full review here