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David Velez, Bruno Duplant

Des-Illusions

Label: Unfathomless

Format: CD

Genre: Experimental

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*2024 stock. 170 (hand-numbered) copies limited edition* "The genesis of this project is a conversation between Bruno and David about making music in current times of social and environmental crisis. This dialogue prompted an exchange of recordings, found sounds and other sonic material, advancing two pieces. Artistically, Bruno perceives himself as a pessimist acknowledging the presence of this thinking in his abundant music production, which is mainly collaborative. However, David perceives Bruno’s prolific creation and cooperation with other artists as evidence of optimism or at least as an act of resisting pessimism. For both artists, when new artwork is brought forth in the world, it embodies new ideas encouraging experiences and reflections with a potential agency in the same way that the vibration of a tiny drop of water echoes on the place where it falls. In his continuous music production, Bruno detects a necessity; and David connects his own artistic creation with contesting the moment of despair we experience and its effects on our emotional health. 

In both stances, there is an element of self-care in music making, which in the case of this collaboration is mutual care. When the future for humans looks as gloomy as it does today, getting one’s hopes up emerges as pointless, leading to inevitable disappointment. However, for Bruno and David, artists have no choice other than creating and continuously entangling themselves in this paradox as an act of mitigation." - David Vélez & Bruno Duplant

Details
Cat. number: U79
Year: 2023
Notes:
Locations : North of France + usine Cavrois Mahieu à Roubaix, Lindley, Birchencliffe, and Huddersfield in West Yorshire, Northern England. Limited edition of 170 hand-numbered copies.