|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
LP
|
|
CVSDLP 014LP
|
Corbett vs. Dempsey presents Horizon, featuring music by Joseph Shabason and Thom Gill as a score for artist David Hartt's film. This vinyl-only project is co-released with Hartt's new imprint, Actualité. It is the label's maiden voyage and exists in a strictly limited edition of 300 copies. Horizon features soundtrack music composed by Canadian multi-instrumentalist and composer Shabason and Toronto-based musician Gill, also featuring vibraphonist/marimbist Michael Davidson. It includes a breathtaking interpretation of the song "Quiet Life," written by David Sylvian and featured on Japan's 1979 record of the same name. Hartt drew the cover image, of a concrete panel used in the curtain wall of the Chateau Champlain, based on archival materials from the Fonds Roger D'Astous, housed at the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montréal. He commissioned the British comics artist Lando to make speculative drawings of a future city, specifically with Montréal as its starting point, featuring his nephews. In notes from the exhibition at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, where the work was originally shown, curator François LeTourneux writes: "While steering clear of a strictly autobiographical approach, Horizon draws on his personal experience to examine the complex relationship between identity, design, architecture, and urban planning within a specific cultural context and temporal framework. The filmic component of the work explores the daily life of his sister Sue's family, a culturally mixed household like the one in which David and Sue themselves grew up, in Beaconsfield, a suburb of Montréal (of Caribbean descent, they were adopted by English-speaking, Jewish, and white parents). Hartt has described his youth and the socio-cultural context of the time as having been the source of a 'profound sense of alienation,' against which the modernist buildings of the downtown landscape offered a kind of imaginary refuge." Immaculately and painstakingly engineered, mastered, and plated, and pressed on 180-gram vinyl, Horizon plays at 45 rpm, giving the tracks room to breathe and the music space to shine. Impossible to adequately describe, it is as captivating as it is rigorously thought through. A cool, shimmering atmosphere suggesting a utopian soundscape that might be at home in the remade architecture of some near future.
|