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Hervé Perez — Nada #22 Live Stream
(Bandcamp NexTtime no#, 2025, DL)

Hervé Perez — Nada #26 Live Stream
(Bandcamp NexTtime no#, 2025, DL)

Hervé Perez — Nada #27 Live Stream
(Bandcamp NexTtime no#, 2025, DL)

by Peter Thelen, Published 2026-01-21

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Hervé Perez is a avant-garde sound sculptor and composer who works with found sounds, field recordings, electronics, laptop, and is a multi-instrumentalist (saxophone, shakuhachi, percussion, bells and bowls, and perhaps other things as well). He plays with several groups in the free jazz and contemporary jazz idioms, including Not One Not Two with Geoff Bright, and is also half of the duo Inclusion Principle along with Martin Archer. Nada Livestream Listening Meditations is a project that he began in 2022 and has continued through each of the years since, each one roughly fifty minutes to one hour, and he has published thirty of them to date on Bancamp. The three titles under review here represent part of that output, #22 livestreamed on 2 October 2024, #26 on 12 February 2025, and #27 on 14 March 2025. While the term sound sculpture can refer to a lot of different things, often brutal and abrasive, that’s not the case with these three, in fact ‘listening meditations,’ right there in the title of each, is the key to understanding what these three, or any of the other Nada Listening Meditations are all about. Each is built on a foundation of gentle field recordings, which could be anything, but generally not voices or vocals; sometimes one will wonder what they just heard, but in most cases the recordings are based on natural things: birds, insects, water, wind, trees, fire, other animal sounds, all brought into an constantly evolving moving image via laptop. Sometimes one can hear (what I believe are) electronics, Tibetan bowls, bells, and then occasionally out of the background one will hear a shakuhachi or sax or mysterious electronic sounds come to the fore, usually only for a brief appearance, then retreat back into the background as something else takes its place. These are best explored with a good set of headphones and deep listening, as there is so much going on here that a lot can be easily missed, and their presentation tends to be lean toward the quiet side. It’s a place where one can reflect on their connection to nature and the elements, immersing oneself in the sounds, vibrations, and subtle harmonic structures. This is certainly not electronic based floating ambient music, but the end result of Perez’ live mix of sounds might provide a similar effect: relaxation, introspection, healing, meditation, and more.

Filed under: New releases, 2025 releases

Related artist(s): Hervé Perez

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