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ENSEMBLE
ECONOMIQUE is Brian Pyle of Starving Weirdos and RV Paintings. His solo project
(hence the slightly ironic moniker), which could be probably briefly classified
as ambient / drone / psychedelic / shoegaze, has released various albums,
splits and EPs on labels such as Digitalis, Amish, Not Not Fun, Dekorder and
Clan Destine so far, before joining forces with Denovali Records in 2012. His
new full length LIGHT THAT COMES, LIGHT THAT GOES constitutes Ensemble
Economique's first release on Denoval.
Exploiting
the freedom of isolation, Brian utilizes found sounds, field recordings, and
musical performance that he later meticulously edits, layers, and loops in the
studio. The effects of these processes are dramatic, cinematic and conceptually
rigorous and this recording evidences Pyle as an important new composer emerging
out of the long and storied tradition of West Coast experimentalism. Pyle's
practice involves a dense approach to composition akin to assemblage, but
unlike electronic and laptop composition, Pyle's studio work aims to
re-establish an organicism associated with live (or, in the case of the field
recordings, lived) performance that pushes the studio out into nature and
nature into the studio. The result is a seamless, cinematic tapestry of beauty,
filled to the brim with cacophonous melodies, meditative auditory chants, &
hypnotic shambolic rhythms. This is dense music that begs for deeper
inspection. Each space, each note carefully chosen and etched into glass.
Ensemble Economqiue is music for the darkest nights, the pinkest mornings, and
everything in between. This is vivid, haunting music that leaves a trail of
gold in its wake.
Indeed,
the pieces comprising LIGHT THAT COMES, LIGHT THAT GOES are episodic in nature,
a narrative arc, travelling from dark to light. They are loosely inspired by
Brian's long walks along the ocean and the thoughts he would have. Each piece
captures a mood, a feeling, a singular moment out there on the beach, on his
long aimless walks to nowhere, the horizon stretching for infinity.