Brian Olewnick:
A new release from the always enjoyable and uncompromising 845 Audio label: ‘Eidolon’, from Joda Clément, Mathieu Ruhlmann and Tim Olive. A fine balance between harshness and an uneasy kind of stasis. Excellent work.
Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly:
A three-way collaboration from two different sessions in Vancouver, September 2018 and June 2019, with Joda Clément (Korg MS-20, harmonium, glockenspiel, feedback), Mathieu Ruhlmann (ukelin, cymbal, tapes, objects) and Olive (magnetic pickups, preamplifier, octave generators). While I am not sure if I have heard all the releases by 845 Audio, I would think that by now there is a common thread to be noticed in many of these releases, and that is a carefully constructed approach to the electro-acoustic end of improvisation. Instruments are not easily recognized in these pieces, save for the odd bow upon strings/cymbal/objects in the final piece. But in the opening piece, we hear a mass of dark sounds, and objects being carefully moved around upon an amplified surface, resulting in a similar yet different and mysterious piece of music.This is quite far removed from the traditional world of improvised music, with hardly any 'normal' instruments and some excellent interaction between the three players, each the master of their domain, knowing what they are doing and reacting accordingly. Excellent music!
credits
released April 1, 2021
Joda Clément: MS-20, harmonium, glockenspiel, field recordings, feedback
Tim Olive: magnetic pickups, preamplifier, octave generators
Mathieu Ruhlmann: ukelin, cymbal, tapes, objects
Recorded by Nelson Donais at Mothcow, Vancouver
September 2018 and June 2019
Mastered by Alan Jones at Laminal Audio
Catalog Number: 845-17
During his 2018 and 2019 Canadian tours, Tim Olive joined Vancouver residents Joda Clément and Mathieu Ruhlmann for two trio performances in that fine and strange city. Prior to each live performance, the trio recorded at Mothcow studios, located in a venerable brick building downtown. “Eidolon” has been drawn from those two recording sessions; a small number of structural edits have been made.
as always excellent stuff from Tsss tapes - this one low key/minimal glitches and hum, interplay between the two electronic musicians seems to match the soundmaking process, interferrance patterns, static and rumble / bouncing off against one another Graham Dunning
Field recordings intertwine with hushed acoustics and gentle ambience to create songs that are hypnotic and immersive. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 13, 2020