catalogue

CRANKSHAW, EVAN & THE DEAD MAURIACS

EXPEDITION (AKUPHONE)

CRANKSHAW, EVAN & THE DEAD MAURIACS - EXPEDITION 152744
format:
1 CD
release:
15.07.2022
label:
AKUPHONE
item ID:
152744
barcode:
0781930846196
Expedition is a collaboration between sound artist The Dead Mauriacs (aka Olivier Prieur) and collage artist Evan Crankshaw, based on their mutual interest in treating exotica as both a subject and a material.

Evan Crankshaw's 2015 collage book, also entitled Expedition, is assembled and collaged by hand from a vast archive of popular exoticist printed materials, and explores recurring motifs in expedition narratives, simultaneously evoking and alienating the exoticist fantasy.

In 2018, the book was interpreted for a live performance at Festival BBMix (Boulognes-Billancourt, France) in collaboration with The Dead Mauriacs, who created a complete exotica-concrète score accompanying projected images of the book & live narration.

That collaboration can be heard on this album, an armchair-travel virtual-voyage to the heart of an imagined actual elsewhere, stitched from pieces of narcotizing fabulisms, disturbing actualities, and incomprehensibilities - an interior excursion into the exotic immensity.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. A THEORY
  • 1.2. SO IT HAD BEGUN, BY A FIRE ON A SOUTH SEA ISLAND
  • 1.3. SNIFFING OUT THE GREAT BEYONDS
  • 1.4. OUTSIDE TIME AND BEYOND SPACE
  • 1.5. AN EXPEDITION IS BORN
  • 1.6. AHEAD TO THE ADVENTURE
  • 1.7. ALONG AN UNKNOWN SHORE - THE ISLAND PEERS OUT
  • 1.8. DISORIENTATIO