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DIE
ZEIT, 19.05.2004
SPEX
CD, July 2004
Les
Inrockuptibles
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ANNE
LAPLANTINE
dicipline
emphase / hausmusik
Release date: 17.05.2004
ANNE LAPLANTINE, native Frenchwoman and citizen of Berlin by choice,
belongs to the rare species of musicians who speak a unique musical language.
We even venture to claim that it's a new language in the field of electronic
pop music. And pop music is what we're hearing on dicipline - except that
it's got nothing in common with the usual track-format and typical electronica.
Concerning structure and composition, Anne Laplantine's music owes more
to the baroque fugue than to the track. In addition to
that, her sound is also very un-electronic, because Laplantine uses all
kinds of acoustic instruments as sources for her sounds: flute, guitar,
bass, glockenspiel and melodica to name but a few. Despite all of its
complexity and multi-dimensionality, dicipline sounds light and dreamy,
ephemeral yet inescapable and compelling. Hearing this album is the aural
equivalent of letting run sand through your fingers. None of these beautiful
moments can be held onto, the music is always on the move. Laplantine
refrains from repetitions in the sense of 'theme-variation-theme', but
makes her music follow the dictate of transitoriness. The artist gives
the individual instruments and their sounds much space and thus develops
a dense and colourful tapestry of melody and rhythm. By doing so, she
in a playful way refers to a series of 7" on emphase records, the
tracks on which have been played (or rather 'generated') on one instrument
solely (emphasolo). With limitation as the motor of her music, Laplantine
develops a music of incredible harmonic density and with a totally individual
sound-aesthetic. Despite its being all but a 'fat' production, dicipline
is an incredibly powerful production – you simply can't not listen
to it!
Over the years, Anne Laplantine has deliberately confused her audience
by recording for different labels under many different guises: As MICHIKO
KUSAKI she had a release on the Vienna-based "Angelika Köhlermann"-label,
for "Tomlab" she recorded as ANGELIKA KÖHLERMANN and ANNE
HAMBURG. The list of releases and tracks she put out under her given name
is already awe-inspiring.
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