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http://soundcloud.com/tigerbeat6/sets/a-bond-with-sorrow/
Artist: Christoph de Babalon
Album Title: A Bond With Sorrow
Catalogue Number: meow188
Label: Tigerbeat6
Release Date: April 23rd, 2012
Format: Digital
Christoph de Babalon’s new album conjures up the spirits of melancholy and romanticism in a cold and shallow world. It’s a powerful opus deserving of its own movie about sad love and the wish to give life sense in the absence of a better future.
We all are filled with hope and dreams of love before realizing the futility of life, and it is at this point that de Babalon stands on razors edge. This album harnesses the energy of heartbreak and despair as fuel to create dramatically beautiful music that finds its power inside darkness. All in a way that would drive the average musician mad.
“Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?” (Emile M. Cioran)
A mastery of his tools and over two decades of esoteric knowledge of electronic music is applied throughout the album, managing to implement the best aspects of the ever evolving jungle, breakbeat ambient, and modern bass scenes. Standout tracks like “Into The Shadows”, “Traumspiel” and “A Little Less” seem both familiar and futuristic at the same time.
The beatless “Mist Of Life” and “Hunger” are so deep and well executed they could be performed by a full orchestra and will stay fresh for years to come like classic David Cronenberg.
Most artists live in their own self created world of indulgence and delusion, hoping that the audience will be enticed to hop on board for a fun ride until the next distraction comes along, but very few artists are willing to come face to face with emptiness to transcend this cycle of disposable earcandy.
There is no blank eyed randomly programmed post modern nihilism or desperate hedonism here, just a sonic document of living amongst the ruins and a deep contemplative understanding that the only joy is a past never lived.
The cover artwork just as on Christoph’s previous releases Scylla & Charybdis, A World of My Own and Traumspiel is by British visual artist Ian Liddle.
Christoph de Babalon is a peerless musician able to effortlessly combine the high art worlds of his sound installations, dance and film soundtracks, with the low end dark realms of his more sinister work on labels like Alec Empire’s Digital Hardcore Recordings (DHR), Fat cat, Zhark, Lowres and his own . It’s no question why he has been championed by tastemakers as diverse as John Peel, Thom Yorke, and Alec Empire.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
1997 If You’re Into It, I’m Out Of It LP/CD, Digital Hardcore Recordings
1999 The Peel Sessions Live, Royal Festival Hall, London
2000 Split EP with Kid606 12” Vinyl, Fat Cat
2001 Untitled with Hanayo for ‘Mutations’ group exhibition in Tokyo,
curated by Rem Kolhaas
2001 Opened for Radiohead on Southern european tour.
2005 Atomkrieg sound installation for group exhibition at Kunsthaus Dresden
2008 ‘Scylla & Charybdis’ LP, Cross Fade Enter Tainment
2010 Film Score for ‘Sun in the Mist’ by Werner Schumann
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