Exposé print issues (1993-2011)
Thierry David — Six Waves
(Bandcamp no #, 2024, DL)
by Peter Thelen, Published 2025-02-04
Thierry David is a noted French composer and multi-instrumentalist with (at least) a couple dozen releases to his credit beginning in 1992 in the ambient / electronic / New Age category; he also earns a living making music for films and advertising. Six Waves offers the listener something of a shifting listening experience that wanders through a number of different areas, and although no specific list of instruments is given, one can hear electric guitar, bass, synthesizers, and perhaps software instruments as well, presumably all played by David himself. In the expansive near-eleven minute opus “Into the Wave Axis” one can hear strong currents of synth over deep bass pulses amid soaring Frippian e-bow guitar leads and shimmering waves washing all around. The six waves (in six tracks) seem to lead the listener on an spirited adventure to discover the origins of life. Coming into view slowly through a dark sonic fog, “Ultrasonic Vibes” explores dreamy atmospherics, weaving melodic fragments over a slow and bassy groove with a daring percussive undercurrent; again, whirring guitar leads enter and exit the foreground with regularity as the piece moves through numerous stages along its ten-minute trajectory. Opener “Causality” enters with a lengthy and beautiful ambient drift that cycles around colorful sprites of shimmering guitar and other mysterious sounds, clearing the way for all that follows. With “Elliptical Tales” the composer splashes shards of drifting colors into an ambient field of gentle beauty, one of the few pieces on which stringed acoustics (heavily processed guitar or zither perhaps) are used as a backdrop for subtle melodic repetition... and one better have a system that can handle these loud and extremely low contrabass notes. A steady and deep bass groove supports mysterious wandering melodic fragments throughout “Submarine Whispers,” while the expansive closer “The Sixth Wave” inches along effortlessly amid a soundworld of exotic electronics, never looking back. Six Waves offers something that reaches well beyond the standard electronic fare.
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http://thierrydavid.bandcamp.com/album/six-waves-2
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