Search - Laurent Perrier :: Downfall/Disperse

FRENCH IMPORT - "Under his own name, Laurent Perrier releases a double CD called 'Downfall/Disperse', which is of entirely different nature. Both CDs have one piece only and both last around fifty some minutes. 'Downfall' starts out with single pitched drone in an almost Alvin Lucier like vein. Slowly and minimally changing, the main change seems to becoming somewhere half way through. From there on things expand in various directions, whilst the sound remains thickly layered. 'Disperse' is more of a rhythmic enterprise: a continuous rhythm is set forward and sounds swirl around it, a bit like a flies buzzing around your head, or a steam train passing various forms of landscapes. Apparently this is the same loop, transposed to various tracks in various mutations. I must admit that the 'Downfall' side was more my cup of tea, and that 'Disperse' sounded a bit too simple in approach for me." - Vital Weekly/Frans de Waard (October 2006)