Constellation Info:

mnant is a first collection of material recorded & assembled by re:. the 11 pieces on mnant were culled & coaxed from an unruly pile of 4-track cassettes, DAT tapes & hard drives in montreal, canada and arlington, usa between 1997 & 2000 that involved numerous cross-border journeys. mnant features densely layered songs formed by overlapping loops and filter treatments as well as spare compositions using only one or two fragments, similarly overlapped and filtered. re: relies heavily on the 'cut & paste' technique popularised by microcomputers, though some pieces were executed largely in real time, just as in real life. all pieces, with a couple of obvious exceptions, are comprised (to some degree) of fragments performed in real time, out in the open air, with resonant devices, amplifiers, microphones, etc. various filters were also often applied in real time, with hands on knobs turning & calibrating & whatnot. in other cases, with reference to all of the above, the computer did the work & time was suspended. at one stage or another, all sounds were binarised & dealt with as such.

re:mnant is what remains of the process. song titles are supposedly arbitrary. the songs themselves, as well as their sequence on the record, are not. the entire process was guided by an attempt to make the right decisions at every turn. re: does not believe such decisions are possible, owing to too much thinking & listening, which re: cannot avoid.

mnant is definitely the deepest that constellation has yet plunged into the depths of machine-created music. the half of constellation who is not part of re: (and who retains some objectivity re: re:) believes this foray to be as masterful and nuanced as anything we've released to date.

Rafał Księżyk (wspólna recenzja Re:Mnant i Le Fly Pan Am "Ceux Qui Invent N'Ont Jamais Vecu" z Anteny Krzyku 1/2002):
Dwie najciekawsze grupy z montrealskiej wytwórni Constellation, której płyty trafiają właśnie do dystrybucji Anteny Krzyku. Montrealski duet to wdzięczny reprezentant tej coraz liczniejszej fali współczesnych grup, które zdradzają inspiracje brytyjskimi pionierami nowej fali - This Heat. Poruszają się na gruncie bliskim hałaśliwej i chropawej muzyki glitch, lecz w ich podejściu czuć różnicę. Mówią nie przez pryzmat cyfrowej estetyki, lecz z gruntu doświadczeń postrocka i jego okołoindustrialno-nowofalowych inspiracji z lat 80.. Całkiem przyjemne hałaśliwe instalacje łączące mikroelektronikę ery posttechno z żywym graniem - już nie garażowym, ale domowym. Szczególne, iż o powodzeniu tej fuzji decyduje pomost nowofalowych inspiracji. Podobnie jest z Le Fly Pan Am, którzy wychodząc z doświadczeń postrocka łapią drapieżniejszą motorykę punk-funka a la nowojorska scena przełomu lat 70. i 80. Swe rozimprowizowane jamy przesycają serwowaną w duchu mikro kornką hałaśliwych preparacji i elektroniki. I tak ich ściany dźwięku osobliwe łączą w sobie doświdaczenia estetyk hałasu takich grup jak Faust, King Crimson, Sonic Youth i Oval.


Constellation Info:

mnant is a first collection of material recorded & assembled by re:. the 11 pieces on mnant were culled & coaxed from an unruly pile of 4-track cassettes, DAT tapes & hard drives in montreal, canada and arlington, usa between 1997 & 2000 that involved numerous cross-border journeys. mnant features densely layered songs formed by overlapping loops and filter treatments as well as spare compositions using only one or two fragments, similarly overlapped and filtered. re: relies heavily on the 'cut & paste' technique popularised by microcomputers, though some pieces were executed largely in real time, just as in real life. all pieces, with a couple of obvious exceptions, a.......
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