richard garet l'avenir

On CDR we find Richard Garet, whom we know from his various releases for Con-V, Non Visual Objects and Winds Measure themselves. His music was received here with mildness: if you have never heard this, then you'll love it, but otherwise it's something that has been said and done before. This new work, 'L'avenir', which means 'to come', rather than the 'future' (there is an interesting quote from Jacques Derrida on the cover), should still be approached with the same care. Garet loves space and spatial approaches of sound, and 'L'avenir' is a work that plays well in 'your space'. I had it on a mild volume, walked around a bit, adjusted the volume some more, and the waves gently filled my space. Like Eno wanted it with his original ambient music concept. Garet uses processed sine waves, perhaps, I am not sure here, and in forty-nine minutes transports the listener on his gentle waves. Nice music no doubt, but like I said, its very much part of a tradition and not something radically
new.

Vital Weekly 631, reviewed by Frans de Waard