Comes with the FAUX WORLD CD album.
Also includes a small booklet and a CD-only bonus compilation
"ARCHIVES VOLUME 1" 41 minutes of rarities and unreleased music
Includes unlimited streaming of Rêves de Béton (2015)
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
'Rêves de Béton' has been nominated by the CQM (PRIX OPUS)
for the best electro-acoustic album produced in 2015-16
INSPIRATION : nature, urban decay, op-art, 60's music & cinema
"Les gens qui racontent que le béton est bête, lourd et grossier sont du genre à se laisser tromper par les apparences." -Bernard Arcand
"Le Corbusier aussi s'est ignominieusement trompé : jamais on n'utilisera le ciment armé sur les autres planètes." -Salvador Dali
"Reinforced concrete and electronic music may have much more in common than we think. Paradoxically, electronic music, fruit of technological innovations, seems often to refer to nature and its elements while concrete, symbol of technological achievement, invites itself into our world as naturally as the ground beneath our feet.
For decades, both served as visual and hearing landmarks in building the futuristic society we know today. However, with overused concrete drying up, showing cracks and electronic music becoming more and more popular, we need to dream again... dream further.
"Rêves de Béton" is about finding the wonder in the mundane again. It's about finding the enthusiasm and excitement felt by the electronic music pioneers, back in the days when the year 2000 seemed like a new area filled with promises. With this album I also wanted to mention the decrepitude, the neglect, the escape to nature, the endless search for empty spaces."
REVIEWS
Earshot Magazine - Rêves de Beton, is a challenging listen, short ideas of song merging ambient and glitch electonics masterfully. Beullac is making some dramatically expressive music here, and his range is staggering over these two disks.
Vital Weekly - Galerie Stratique does things very well. Each piece is made with quite some imagination, and also the variation is well considered on this album. An excellent mixture of electronic tunes.
Back Seat Mafia/Ride the Tempo - It’s a distillation. As a representation of how removed we have become from both our spiritual selves and the organic earth, it is chilling. As a work of experimental electronica, it’s fascinating.
Le Canal Auditif - Beullac nous emporte dans un rétrofuturisme de grande qualité. Rêves de Béton est un album pour audiophile d’abord. Il a un côté intellectuel pour son inspiration de Schaeffer et Stockhausen, culturel pour ses sonorités indonésiennes, comique pour ses mises en scène rétro futuristes, ou technique pour l’excellence de la production.
credits
released November 13, 2015
composed and produced by Charles-Émile Beullac
vocals on Villes Englouties by Carole Siciak
mastering: Dominique Bassal
artwork : Criterium
supported by 6 fans who also own “Rêves de Béton (2015)”
As a band, they were really doing something strange at the time by making music that sounded so resolutely like it came from the bedroom of a solo producer. "Vocals" are just snatches of floating sound, drums are often electronic... all the instruments sound electronic. They were clearly inspired by dub (who isn't) and started with stripped-down fragments, but then kept whittling down from there. Mood-wise they're bleak yet beautiful, like enjoying a solo walk in an industrial landscape. Jascha Narveson
This Chicago quintet use classical and contemporary instrumentation to craft this beautifully contemplative ambient release. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 2, 2023