Lowell, by LIGHTWAVE

Lowell

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1.	Lowell's Visions 04:51	info	buy track
2.	Real the Journey Is, Though Incorporeal 09:04	info	buy track
3.	Unfathomable Space 04:25	info	buy track
4.	Mare Erythraeum 04:48	info	buy track
5.	I Cannot Be Sure 04:28	info	buy track
6.	Mind Mirages 06:24	info	buy track
7.	Gemination of the Canals 06:48	info	buy track
8.	Martians Circles 07:22	info	buy track

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The name of Percival Lowell (1855-1916) is forever associated with the exploration of the planet Mars and the discovery of its mysterious canals, whose traces and duplications were followed day by day through the telescope, from the observatory of Flagastaff (Arizona).

Lowell was an exceptional character, passionate about the culture of the Far East, a scholar, a writer, a man of communication, a visionary and imaginative astronomer. He devoted twenty years of his life to the telescopic exploration of the planet Mars and to defending the thesis of intelligent life on this distant world, the only explanation, in his eyes, for the immense irrigation works in progress across these red deserts, where life was threatened with extinction.

In 1996, based on texts by Lowell (Mars and Its Canals, 1906), Lightwave and the American soprano Susan Belling (1943-2000) conceived a musical project dedicated to this extraordinary moment in the history of modern astronomy. Between song and words, Lightwave's soundscapes unfold the magic of these telescope observations, of the fine tuning of the gaze, between blur and sharpness, of this exploration at a distance of an arid and fluid world at once. Lyrical and experimental, ethereal and concrete, these eight tracks, which have remained unpublished for a long time, are released for the first time.

We dedicate Lowell to the memory of our friend Susan Belling, who has left to join the angels.

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released May 1, 1996

Electronics, sound design, concept and production : Christoph Harbonnier, Christian Wittman.
Violin, additional electronics: Jacques Derégnaucourt (on: "Lowell's Visions" and "Martian Circles")
Vocals : Susan Belling

Artwork: Christoph Harbonnier

Recorded and produced at Taktic Studio (Paris) in 1996-1997. Post-production, mastering: May 2022 at Tof Studio and Nina Studio.

The tracks Lowell's Visions and Martian Circles were first released in the "Infinite Horizons" compilation. Thanks to Dave Kaufman.
Other Lightwave albums: Cantus Umbrarum, Tycho Brahé and Mundus Subterraneus are available at www.hmnetwork.com

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Since their beginnings in 1985, the group Lightwave have followed a particular road on the map of « new music à la française”: Travelling from minimalism to electro-acoustic expression and to musical forms like electric trance,

Lightwave explores a poetic and sensual world and plays with sound as one would be with colours, shapes, objects or dimensions of space. ... more

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