Stéphane Clor - Exarcheia-Εξάρχεια
Released: January 23 This latest work from Stéphane Clor is just as much an immersive experience as it is an album. The basis of this work is something of an audible diary of his stay in the Exárcheia district of Athens during a two month residency. It features several alternating motifs throughout its runtime that tell a fragmented story of his stay that incorporate field recordings, classical instruments, and a variety of self-assembled objects and effects. The album opens up with a recording of what sounds much like a train station with the announcement of an arriving or departing train, a departure point from which Clor takes us into his string-based compositions. In regard to the string-centered compositions, Clor opts for a a seemingly gentle kind of simplicity in these efforts. “Sirens” and “petite suite” being the first two of these works as they set this theme early on with the latter being especially sparse with harshly plucked strings running through a crude but impactf...
