Soutien Gorge’s Revoir, out on Complementary Distribution, is another strong Complementary Distribution release. The flavour is noise and delicious ambience, with 8 delicate and sweet tracks like Érkezés, and A jelzőlámpák nem villognak tovább. It’s best to listen to the album as whole since the tracks are quite short and cross-pollinate themes between each other.
Gorge treats sound somewhat like a water-colour artist, washing timbres across either noise or melodic themes. Sustained notes often reverberate to their natural end, leaving silence, where other sounds are introduced. Gorge has adopted the technique of working with silence as much as noise, and this results in moments that resemble clarity and awakening.
The use of crackling textures in a lot of these pieces, Hazafelé for example, puts into mind images of sparks, fireworks, or even sea crashing on a shore. Judging by the photographs, which contain images of a city at night with a long shutter setting, and the album title “Revoir”, the theme appears to be good bye at night. I made the assumption that the album would be far more melancholic than it actually is, excluding the first track, which made me wonder if Gorge was stretching the metaphor of parting to mean rebirth.