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karu:27, CD (digipak)
3 audio tracks, (p) 2014
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Release date: 11/02/2014
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Perfection and UncertaintyThe thing about France Jobin's music that never fails to impress is that it works on so many levels. Listen to it at the threshold of perception (the way it is mastered) or at very high volume, on headphones or through loudspeakers, and you will hear new sonic relationships, new structures, a new logic every time. Things simultaneously are and aren't as they seem; sounds you hear are and aren't really there.
Montréal sound/installation artist France Jobin has come a long way since her days as a blues keyboardist in the 1980s. In 1999, after a hiatus that lasted a decade, during which she raised two sons, she turned to experimental electronic music of the very quiet, rumbling, abstracted kind, and started performing and releasing music under the moniker i8u. Slowly but with great assurance, she built a much-lauded career and kept on refining her art, ever digging deeper into the core of sound. When the revered LINE label offered her an album (Valence) in 2012, she abandoned her alias and started using her own name.
In her own words:
«The Illusion of Infinitesimal represents another chance to refine the unique essence of each sound and composition, in an effort to better communicate intent without influencing its unfolding, a delicate balance between perfection and detachment.
A parallel could be drawn from particles of matter, which, "as far as we know, are infinitesimal points of zero size, yet they have measurable amounts of angular momentum. Does the concept of rotation even make sense for a featureless speck? Angular momentum seems to be a more foundational concept than rotation itself. The angular momentum, or spin, of a single particle is restricted in strange ways. It can have only certain values, and not all values are allowed for all particles." (1)
Perfection and uncertainty.»
(1) Collage of quotes from Jim Pivarski, "Spin", Symmetry Magazine, March 2013.
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France Jobin painstakingly pares sounds down to their 'unique essence', from which point she is equipped to communicate intent without influencing its unfolding, a delicate balance between perfection and detachment.
THE SOUND PROJECTOR, August 2014
The Illusion of Infinitesimal gives shape to a huge work of static digital noise, the illusion of stillness in tiny spots and notes that fade into silence.
HAWAI, July 2014
Et c'est à cet instant que l'on se rend compte que même ce qui est infime peut nous atteindre et nous émouvoir. La démonstration de France Jobin est, dès lors, éclatante et elle prend ici une signification toute particulière.
LIABILITY, July 2014
A very good rapture in the fertile plot of minimalist ambient.
CHAIN DLK, June 2014
Musical architecture embellished with both subtleness and extensive harmony.
FELTHAT, June 2014
The beauty of this creation is that time simply flies by and becomes irrelevant once everything comes to its conclusion.
BLACK AUDIO, June 2014
A work of pure contemplation sound.
ONDA ROCK, May 2014
La musique de Jobin culmine dans un ravissement de la conscience qui rappelle l'art d'Eliane Radigue ou les précieuses atmosphères des disques de Stars Of The Lid.
DMUTE, May 2014
The purest form of ambient music.
BLOW UP, May 2014
An absolute masterpiece.
SKUG, May 2014
Ces "presque riens" sonores prennent au cours de leur développement une ampleur gigantesque.
TAPAGE NOCTURNE / FRANCE MUSIQUE, April 2014
Listening is maybe the art of touching the infinite, at least when sound comes in such delicate way as France Jobin does it on her latest album.
INFINITE GRAIN, April 2014
Warm and soulful ambient music.
DARKROOMRITUALS, April 2014
Les sons de la productrice montréalaise invitent à un abandon total de soi.
RIFRAF, April 2014
Minimum volume yields maximum results.
KINDAMUZIK, March 2014
A valiant and daring work that pushes the outer limits of minimalism and goes far, far beyond conventional musicology in its intense focus on the elementary units of sound.
WHISPERIN & HOLLERIN, March 2014
Un grand disque qui révèlera toute sa complexité sur une installation adéquate, où l'on se plaira à tenter l'expérience au seuil de notre perception, avant de monter sensiblement le volume pour laisser alors éclore tout le talent de cette artiste.
SWQW, March 2014
Some great music unfolds.
VITAL WEEKLY, March 2014
One of the most interesting publications in recent months.
NOWA MUZYKA, March 2014
Too pure and beautiful for organic instigation in spite of its thickness and audibility.
ATTN:MAGAZINE, February 2014
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