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His compositions are often characterized by intricate layers of sound that transport listeners into a mesmerizing sonic landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout his career, Bastien has collaborated with renowned musicians including Luc Ferrari, Klimperei, Pascal Comelade, Fred Frith, and many others. These collaborations have further enriched his musical repertoire and contributed to his status as a respected artist within the genre.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sonic-folkways","title":"Sonic Folkways","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy now counting more than four decades of constant activity, Pierre Bastien erected such a towering and influential body of work that any blurb attempt regarding his music could easily fall into redundancy. Not that his revolving soundworld, deeply personal and unique, has ever stalled into gimmick or self mimicry, being Bastien the tireless explorer whose vision can never be complete, only continuously redefined in a process of discovery equally playful and challenging. So, completely in touch with Discrepant's ethos. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReturning to the label after 2017 \u003ci\u003eThe Mecanocentric Worlds of Pierre Bastien\u003c\/i\u003e, the french musician, composer and instrument builder, brings an array of instruments from different cartographies and legacies with the appropriately titled \u003ci\u003eSonic Folkways\u003c\/i\u003e. Resorting to different types of horns, prepared trumpet, an army of percussion, from gongs and tambourine to castanets and maracas, violin and too many others to mention here, Bastien weaves together a highly textured and hypnotic mosaic that projects an exotica beamed from scraps of the future. 'Aha!' in the same interstellar wavelength as Sun Ra's cosmic tones, 'Moor's Room’ almost orchestral tapestry of small percussion and insects or the non-western strings and tunings salvaged from ancient alien ceremonies on 'Pan's Nap'. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an era where so much ink has been shed about world building in experimental music, Bastien can actually claim that to himself. 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