Junkyard by CZLT

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In collaboration with CZLT, WV Sorcerer Productions and Ascetic Visions presents “Junkyard” the debut album of the solo project of Guillaume Cazalet.

This release is dedicated to the future archeological remains of urban decay, the post-industrial putrifaction inherent in technological development. As humanity continues technological advancement, sewn into this endless and exponential process are the processes of decline, both through material exhaustion and inevitable devourment of freedom/dependency on the machine. Naturally we evolve with technology and begin to merge from our natural state...

The music contained herein merges the ancient and atavistic music of classical Indian and Tibetan natural culture with sonic soundscapes gripped and interwoven with mechanical textures, drone/doom styled guitars and other mechanistic vibrations.. creating a profound and immersive sonority for the listener.. This is not just a release based on the immergence and subsequent unification of technological and natural forces, it is an innovative and stark exposition of what can be done when music technology is harnassed in union with acoustic instruments of ethnic origin. This merging of soundscapes draw the listener into a “post-apocalyptic” trance through use of unique vocal textures and extended use of drones and sitar while effectively retaining the meditative qualities of these originally spiritual instruments. One gets a sense of the human and technological worlds merging and, conjoined in meditation, yeilding seemlessly into the journey our species is embarked upon, something we can all relate to.

𝕮𝖅𝕷𝕿 is the solo project of Guillaume Cazalet (Neptunian Maximalism NNMM, Sol Kia, Jenny Torse, Aksu). After a first piece of 1 hour spectral music using plasma sounds from NASA and guitar installations with ventilators, he worked for contemporary artists Felix Luke & Iñigo Bilbao for the masterpiece "Junkyard", by recording deep drone metal soundscapes like SOMA’s work
( sunnO))) ). From this work, he produced a first album by combining the traditional classical sitar
with a drone metal guitar approach. This was the starting point of CZLT project.

A subsequent residency at Kanal-Centre Pompidou inspired the start of work on the totality of art related performance in a form of an occult ritual mixing gesture protocols and purifying smoke, cinematic and textural installation, drone/doom music, Tibetan throat singing, amplified sitar, flutes, ceremonial costume and paintings inspired by the Enochian keys and other Fatal Formulas..

Consequently, CZLT has dug deep into the devoted works of India/Pakistan's music of classical masters, such as Ustad Imrat Khan, Ustad Irshad Khan, Ustad Asad Ali Khan, Kaushiki, Chakraborty, Shubha Mudgal, Pandit Mallikarjun Mansur, Kushal Das, Parveen Sultana, Ustad Nishat Khan, Ustad Saami and Smt Kishori Amonkar.

This research is dedicated to gaining mastery of the sitar and vocal practices as well as to transpose this into the occidental context of amplified music. As such, these elements are applied to the drone metal, ambient/binaural and experimental musical approach of CZLT. Exploring the harmonic scales and giving the sound a new power provided by a large range of harmonics, from the microtonal aluminium barytone guitar blended with distortion from multiple bass and guitar stacks, creating a physical and immersive live experience. This is how he built a soundscape for this particular sitar and vocal approach, closely inspired by the devoted classical Indian music, Tibetan traditional music and incorporated with metal music.

BIO :
Born in 1988 in Nîmes, France, Guillaume Cazalet (CZLT) grew up in Camargue. He now lives and works in Brussels as a musician, composer, painter, sound installer, graphic designer, producer and label director. Nowadays, he composes music for NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM (NNMM) ; CZLT ; ÔROS KAÙ ; SOL KIA ; ZAÄAR ; JENNY TORSE ; AKSU and OATH OKRANA. His former bands are VORAX VIROSUS ; BONEPIPE and SIAMESE QUEENS.

He got graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels (ARBA-ESA) in the Art & Public Space (AEsP) section, and is also graduated from the ISASF La Cambre Architecture, in Art and Landscape section. He has been learning music since he was 6 years old in music school, coming from brass band and afro-cubean teaching before falling into metal genres, then into experimental and free jazz musics and now into traditional & classical ethnic musics like Indian classical or Indonesian gamelan music.

He also worked with contemporary artists Felix Luke & Iñigo Bilbao, Eugène Robinson (Oxbow), Koonda Holaa, Sebastien Lacomblez and EOR. He released his music on I,Voidhanger Records, Ascetic Visions, VW Sorcerer Productions, Aurora Borealis, Paradigm Recordings, Epictural Productions, Base Records, Volok Records and he runs his own label HOMO SENSIBILIS SOUNDS.

In his work, from his deep reflexions on the future of our species and living on Earth, he tries to create a sense of acceptance of the end of the "Anthropocene" era through a musical and soteriological experience.

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WV Sorcerer Productions is a music label based in Paris, France and Nanjing, China.
“We focus on noise, drone, experimental, black metal, improvisation, folk, traditional music ambient, etc.We deliver the deep touch of nature and humanity, inevitable urban decay and circulation of cosmos.”
https://wvsorcerer.bandcamp.com

Ascetic Visions is an underground UK-based record label from Scotland
“Focused on releasing that which merges the vibrations of spiritual and esoteric art and music. Devoted to and yet not limited to extreme metal, dark ambient, drone, neofolk and avant-garde artistry.”
https://asceticvisions.bandcamp.com

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