releases :: Sala B – Intervention

Sun, 24/10/2010

If you like this music, please consider to buy the CD version available in our shop

Tracklist

1: Anesthesia
2: Invasion
3: Waking
4: Rifinn*

Sala B is a musical project inspired by a recent near-death experience I had consisting of several weeks in intensive care, two operations and thirty months of therapy. The doctors and physicians all considered my condition terminal and have said that is a miracle that I survived.

Sala B is divided into three segments published individually on EPs, each symbolizing the three majors aspects of the experience.

Intervention is the is the second ep, representing the event of the intervention.

Sala B : Rupture is available in free download but also in a digipack cd audio edition on sale trough our shop.
*CD version features Jóhann Jóhannsson remix of Paul Beauchamp's song from "Sala B : Rupture".

Credits

All music written and composed by Paul Beauchamp
Track 1,2,3 recorded, engineered, mixed and mastered by Marco Milanesio at O.F.F. Studio - Torino Italy. Track 4 mixed, recorded and mastered by Jóhann Jóhannsson.
Track 1: Anesthesia
Track 2: Invasion
Track 3: Waking
Track 4: Rifinn*

reviews

Rumore

…Mi godo in pieno l’esperienza dell’ascolto, come nel secondo capitolo di Sala B di Paul Beauchamp. Intervention (Chew-Z) è la parte dell’operazione, fase centrale di una trilogia ispirata da un male fortunatamente guarito. Presupposti seri ed esecuzione rigorosa, ma il sovrapporsi di drones, flussi sonori (e archi in Rifinn, remix di Johann Johannsson) è puro fascino ipnotico.

Maurizio Blatto

Sodapop

Doppia uscita della Chewz in bilico fra la capitale sabauda ed un contesto internazionale, infatti se Tommasini si accompagnava a Palumbo che in solo e con i Larsen stampa all'estero, anche Beauchamp pur venendo dagli Usa è di stanza nel capoluogo piemontese. Nel caso del musicista americano si tratta nuovamente di una drone-release con tanto di melodie deprimenti e tappeti ciclici reiterati senza esagerare, di modo da ottenere l'effetto narcolessia ma evitando la noia.
Un disco molto cupo quello di Beauchamp, ma non potrebbe essere diversamente visto che si tratta di un concept ispirato ad una serie di eventi che ha portato il musicista italo-americano a rischiare la morte e ad intraprendere un iter ospedaliero che l'ha provato duramente. Le tre tracce accreditate a Beauchamp si possono collocare senza troppe difficoltà in un ambito dark ambient, pur non trattandosi di drones particolarmente pesanti la materia base resta bene o male la stessa. Linee melodiche notturne, controcanti molto semplici che tagliano i tappeti di basse sempre molto asciutte e piuttosto distanti dal tipico effetto magma di molti musicisti che si cimentano nel genere. Al di là della suggestione del titolo Waking mi sembra l'episodio meglio riuscito e maggiormente coinvolgente. Come quarta traccia abbiamo un remix per mano di Jóhann Jóhannsson che, oltre a sposarsi senza troppi problemi con il lavoro del resto del disco, aggiunge un discreto tocco di finezza ad un lavoro che comunque si mantiene sempre su ottimi livelli.

Andrea Ferraris

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Paul Beauchamp

Originally from the Piedmont Region of North Carolina at the base of the Appalachian Mountains (Winston-Salem to be exact), now living in the Piemonte Region of Northern Italy at the base of the Alps (Turin to be exact), Paul Beauchamp has been an active experimental musician since 1993.
Focusing principally on drones, loops, soundscapes and atmospheres Paul Beauchamp has experimented in many styles of music and sound with several diverse projects ranging from the sound/art group Diviner to industrial/tribal/noise outfit Sikhara to current electro/acoustic/ambient collaboration Blind Cave Salamander with Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo(Larsen) as well as a new distorted-opera/pop project with Palumbo, Ernesto Tomassini and Evor (of NG) temporarily titled Canes Venatici. This is all in addition, of course, to the solo work of Paul Beauchamp which has ranged in style from dark ambient to intrspectively melodic.
Paul Beauchamp's works have been produced and exhibited both live in such places as the historic Teatro Juvarra in Turin and in extreme locales such as Reykjavik, Iceland as well as on cd published by such labels as PREcordings of Rome and Chew-Z of Turin. Active also in the art scene, Paul Beauchamp has also produced site-specific sound installations for the Nietszche Fabrik of Turin as part of the World Design Capital Festival of 2008 and the P4 Temporary Gallery as part of the [Design] Crisis Exhibition of the Milano Design Week 2009.
Paul Beauchamp has also had the distinct honor and pleasure to collobarate both on stage and in the studio with many illustrious and talented artists including but not limited to: Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo (Larsen, (r)), Colin Potter (Nurse With Wound, ICR Distribution), Steve Stapleton (Nurse With Wound), Michael Begg (Fovea Hex, Human Greed), Julia Kent (Anthony and the Johnsons), Clodagh Simonds (Fovea Hex), Jochen Arbeit (Arbeit, Einsturzende Neubauten), Ernesto Tomassini, Andrew Liles (Nurse With Wound), Kamil Kruta (Koonda Holaa and the Beethcees), Paul Wallfisch (Little Annie, Botanica), Marco Milanesio (9cento9, DsOrdne), Bruno Dorella (Ovo, Ronin), Stefania Pedretti (Ovo), Scott Nydegger (Sikhara), Steve Mackay (The Stooges), Marco "Il Bue" Schiavo (Larsen), Lydia Lunch, Massimo and Pierce (Coil, Black Sun Productions), Ango Visone (Mariae Nascenti), Matt Howden (Seiben, Sol Invictus), Laura Seeran (Fovea Hex), Cora Venus Lenny (Fovea Hex), John Wiese (Bastard Noise) among many others.

http://www.myspace.com/paulbeauchamp

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