Anne-F Jacques & Karoline Leblanc: Two CD-Rs from Atrito-Afeito

Montreal-based label Atrito-Afeito really put their musical microcosm into focus with the release of the Total Improvisation Troop CD-R, and now Paulo J Ferreira Lopes, Karoline Leblanc and their cluster of like-minded adventurers of thorny tonal territories are back. This time, it’s a pair of CD-Rs that are acting as sacramental offerings to those translucent, electrically charged spirits that ring our collective imaginations. Leblanc herself puts forward a pair of synthesizer pieces for her solo recorded debut. The first, “The Aethernauts,” is the soundtrack to an eponymous film created by Frederico Penteado. It’s a wonderfully oblique work that accompanies the dark visual atmosphere perfectly. “Dust Model for an Imperceptible Time” via is a two-part suite that slowly unfolds over thirty-five minutes, with uncanny synthesizer textures that beam into and out of focus. Coming in at just over twenty minutes, Sable ou Sel — the second CD-R — is a brief taste of Anne-F Jacques‘ rotating amplified objects. Sandpaper-like timbres are wrangled from an unknown host of most likely commonplace items, cast by Jacques into a captivating spell that seems to shift in density as it fills whatever space it encounters.

Both of these discs are still available from the label, so hit up both the Discogs page for Leblanc‘s synthesizer maelstroms and Jacques‘ prickly tectonic activities to score a copy of each.