TEHO TEARDO - VOYAGE AU BOUT DE LA NUIT (7″ by Japanapart) As an old punk who used to buy lots of 7″s, I am still quite fond of the format, but with changed musical appetite, I wonder why some music is released on this format. Mauro Teho Teardo, starting out with an album with musical help of Nurse With Wound and Ramleh, and over the years working with Mick Harris and Lydia Lunch, but also composing music using pen and paper. On this 7″, which lifts its title from the best known book of L.F. Celine, two short pieces of chamber music, played by four celli, two violins, violin, double bass and Teardo himself on guitars, rhodes and electronics. It almost seems like these are excerpts of longer tracks. Its a bit that the proceedings are over before you are aware of it. “Prix de Rome” works like a crescendo and seems a bit simple, but ‘Plans’ is a nice, short short, minimal slab of strings pulled together. Nice packaging! (FdW)

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