Pre-order of Environment. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
releases May 3, 2024
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12" picture disc vinyl of Pavel's "Environment" album
Includes digital pre-order of Environment.
You get 3 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
shipping out on or around May 3, 2024
edition of 20
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
12" hand-painted vinyl of Pavel's "Environment" album.
Available in two variations: pastel rose + turquoise & classy mauve + petrol mat
Includes digital pre-order of Environment.
You get 3 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
shipping out on or around May 3, 2024
edition of 34
40CHFor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Postcard of Pavel's "Environment" field-recording photos
8 different styles available
Includes digital pre-order of Environment.
You get 3 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
Massacres, massacres, massacres, new shoes [Radio Edit]
11.
Tourbières (ft. Ismaël seulement) [Radio Edit]
12.
Come dance in the deluge [Radio Edit]
about
5 years after his debut album "Busy Being Broken", Pavel returns in 2024 with a new LP, this time dealing with the theme of the natural environment, host to all life on Earth.
"Environment" is a concept album based on samples recorded by the artist over several months throughout Switzerland. Rockfalls, lapping lake shores, crackling glaciers, winds piercing fir trees, the massive hum of a waterfall, clashing icicles, cave seepage and more. In a way, these audio recordings are Pavel's inventory of fixtures, which he then uses as a starting point to construct eight tracks faithful to his style: a distorded, elegant, melancholic and wickedly dramatic electronica.
For Pavel, "the pessimism of reason compels the optimism of will". This maxim, taken from Antonio Gramsci's "Cahiers de prison", sums up the essential message of the album.
The album will be released on Blizzard Audio Club, in digital and vinyl formats.
credits
releases May 3, 2024
"Environment" is a concept album based on sound samples recorded by Pavel over several months throughout Switzerland. Some of the areas of the recordings are (in alphabetic order): Bagni di Cevio, Craveggia, Creux-du-Van, Entlebuch Biosphäre, Euseigne, Flühli, Gambarogno, Giessbachfälle, Glacière de Monlési, Grosse Scheidegg, Gsteigwiler, Lac des Taillères, Lago Bianco (Berninapass), Lauterbrunnen, Les Planchettes, Les Ponts-de-Martel, Loco, Pissevache, Reichenbachfall, Rosenlaui, Samedan, Saillon, Saut du Doubs, Scuol, Sigriswil, Sörenberg, Stechelberg, Thunersee, Vergeletto, Zernez, Zinal, & many more.
All songs written, produced and mixed by Etienne Bel
Additional mix on “Sell me a promise” and “Tourbières” by Josué Salomon
Lyrics and vocals on “Sell me a promise” by Marie Hoffman, on “Tourbières” by Mathieu Palomo
“Desolate apostles” co-produced by Arthur Henry
All song mastered by Marco Zenker at Tangible Air, Munich
Artwork design by Lila Thiébaud
Vinyl layout design by Nathan Jucker
Vinyl creation and production by Grand Voyage
Executive production by Etienne Bel
Kindly supported by: Service de la culture du canton de Neuchâtel & Loterie Romande
Label: Blizzard Audio Club
CAT: BAC027
Special thanks to my label team (Nestor, Pepof, Mathéo, Nathan) for their precious work, to Mathieu, Marie and Arthur for their fabulous participation to the album, to Josué and Nathan for their advices, to Lila for the colored artworks, to Alexis, Nestor, Valentin and Vlad for their feedbacks, to Coco l’abricot, Aude, Nuno, to Morvan, Audrey and Lucien for their hospitality, and to Kae Tempest for the wise words.
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