Anthony Laguerre & Jérôme Noetinger – Propagations ← Cafe OTO

The first in a series of two new releases by French tape-based experimental artist Jérôme Noetinger, who has treated us to countless unforgettable live sets at OTO. In this collaboration with Anthony Laguerre, each musician sent a 15 minutes improvisation to the other. Then each one made his own edit based on these two sequences.

“There is a great tradition of exchange and correspondence work in experimental music. In the 80’s, there were a lot of cassettes with musicians who had never met each other but were exchanging sounds by mail. Nowadays it’s even simpler and more obvious. The imposed period of confinement – in France between March 17 and May 11 – was ideal for restarting such projects.

Among those I was able to start, I was very happy to continue a new duo with Anthony Laguerre. A CD named “DnT” was released in the shadow of the pandemic on March 5th on the Dutch label Aagoo in the REV.Lab series. Anthony is a drummer, sound engineer, ingenious multi-instrumentalist and we also created together a small workshop to repair Revox tape recorders.” – Jérôme Noetinger

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Anthony Laguerre & Jérôme Noetinger – all music & recording

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“Propagation 1″ (15’45”) edit by Jérôme Noetinger.
“Propagation 2″ (14’53”) edit by Anthony Laguerre.

Recorded March / April 2020.

Artwork design by Oliver Barrett