V - The Dry Path by noemienours. 180 gr. black vinyl limited to 100 copies.

“The Dry Path”, noemienours’ 5th LP, developed around a Gobi Bear narrative of barren edge conditions as an access point to supra-natural realities, is definitely a turning point in the noemienours discography, notably because of its introduction of harpsichord in the noemienours instrumentarium, but also because of its recourse to a widened approach of its lo-fi musical approach, by creating a new musical form somewhere between Swedish post-black metal influences (Hypothermia, Armagedda,…) and the 17th century dislocation of musical forms through the ”Vanitas” topos as developed by Froberger or Louis Couperin, while retaining its magical Scandinavian forest hue. But of course noemienours’ musical approach to genre has never been anything else than a way of submitting apparently meaningless musical forms to the very meaning of its ursidae qualities. The Rabelaisien topic of the ”frozen word” introduces in this manner the interpretation of a Suite by François Couperin (1668-1733), telling the story of how the musical world was saved from Corporations... more
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released June 10, 2022

All music, lyrics, artwork, mixing, recording, mastering by noemienours
except tracks 3 to 7, written by François Couperin (1668-1733), avec Privilège du Roy. Tuning on tracks 3 to 7 A 415 meantone.
Recorded on Fostex R8 Reel-to-reel 8 track in Stockholm between March/May 2021 (distorted guitar on tracks 1, 9, 11) and Umeå September/December 2021.

Flemish single-manual harpsichord by M. Bezemer 2005 after Ruckers.
Swedish clavichord by P. Verbeek 2017 after Wåhlström 1752.
(Default tuning Werkmeister III)

Best enjoyed with a brighter sound setting and slightly higher volume because of the reel to reel and early music instruments high definition sound.

This is noemienours records #8