{"title":"Romeo Poirier","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"plage-arriere","title":"Plage Arriere","description":"\u003cp\u003eA much needed repress of French ambient composer and lifeguard Roméo Poirier's cult debut record, Plage Arrière. Released with updated artwork, by London imprint Kit Records.\nPlage Arrière is a deep sea meditation on a constellation of Greek beaches across three islands. Trumpets, echo-clicks and Harold Budd-esque shimmer piano whirl together on these sand-caked missives, tumbled and re-engineered by their surroundings like seaglass. Poirier evokes the sub-aqeaous ambitions of Jürgen Müller, or Jan Jelinek inspecting a coral reef.\nLimited to 300 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kit Records","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50426556645707,"sku":"2210848","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_4c6eca9c_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726812857"},{"product_id":"off-the-record-1","title":"Off The Record","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOff The Record\u003c\/em\u003e, the new album by French collagist Roméo Poirier, is an amusing romp through the discarded history of recording studios. It contains fourteen miniatures based on accidental recordings of studio talk, revealing things that were never meant for the public: we hear instructions from studio staff, scraps of talk between musicians, or just microphones being adjusted, as well as false notes, false starts: everyone stops. Start again: 1, 2, 3, 4!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoirier’s approach recalls Accumulation, an artform practiced by Arman, Jean Tinguely and Daniel Spoerri that involved piling up everyday items into assemblages. The objects themselves often remained unaltered, the artistic gesture consisting in the careful curating of a distinctive selection. Poirier’s audio collages explore similar terrain. The fourteen pieces on Off the Record combine more than a thousand found sounds from studio archives into complex miniatures. The audio content of these outtakes is twisted, stretched, cut, reassembled, slowed down and accelerated. Voices cut into a microgroove, from a very old recording, intertwine with digital voices gleaned from YouTube. All of them in dialogue, engaging the listener with the impression of being part of a new music group.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoirier uses the mundane routine of setting up before the actual recording gets underway to tell a universal story about working in a recording studio. And he manages something few achieve, transforming specialist knowledge into a narrative whose beauty goes far beyond its immediate subject. It speaks to everyone, because the story is told in a musical language that is open and accessible, evoking magical images reminiscent of Oz – a world consisting less of events than of camp hallucinations, captured in grainy black-and-white photographs. En passant, Poirier shows us how the notion of material accumulation can produce great art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faitiche","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":53178712817995,"sku":"R7771-6253","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2765bc9d-efd7-b2f3-089c-005e2a875e9d.jpg?v=1755180470"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/romeo-poirier.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}