Le Motel & Bruce Wijn – Maar, vinyl LP

Brand new. Label: cortizona – cortizona 020, cortizona – Cortizona 020/2023 Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition Country: Belgium Released: May 5, 2023 Genre: Electronic Style: Ambient, Downtempo Bruce Wijn is a Brussels-based guitarist who played in several postrock kind projects such as Sound Film, 52 Commercial Road, or more shoegaze orientated Lazy Sin. These collaborations gave him the opportunity to perform in various locations in Belgium, France, England, and the USA. As a musician, his focus has always been attracted by progressively built rhythmic melodies, which would eventually turn into long reverberated or distorted swells, or the other way round. That’s how their first collaboration happened as Le Motel was working on the soundtrack of the movie 'Binti' and invited Bruce Wijn for the track Exode, in 2018. Since then, they’ve been working on other scoring projects, such as the feature film ‘Aller Retour’ more recently. Alongside the movie scoring activities another audiovisual live project was born, in collaboration with Antoine de Schuyter and his mesmerizing images. This one is more focusing on tape textures, field recordings and glitchy effects in order to build atmospheric tracks that they decided to bring together in a first album ‘MAAR’. The album is elaborated as a soundtrack for an imaginary journey between cold seas and volcanoes explorations. ‘MAAR’ dives deep into a kaleidoscopic microcosmos watching Nautilus playing hide and seek with ‘Captain Ahab’ floating on sonic breaking waves, while seagulls gently spread their wings, flying through the breezy and misty clouds of Blankenberge. Lava vulcanica slowly melts in the sad euphoria of the cold North Sea, crystallizing sounds only Le Motel and Bruce Wijn can deliver. Waterproof & heat resistant vintage seventies reel to reel tape wizardry. Infused with technicolor electronics for a bright careless sonic future.