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ETANT DONNES - L'Opposition Et Les Cases Conjuguées Sont Réconciliées CD
Etant Donnes is a French duo named after Marcel Duchamp's last major
work. The group consists of brothers Marc and Eric Hurtado, born in
Morocco and working mainly as performance artists and musicians. Their
sound can be described as a mix of field recordings, found sounds and
sometimes whispered, sometimes violent vocals.
They describe their
sounds like this:
"Through Marc and Eric, it is the volume of each word
that becomes an object-sculpture, together with the power of their
bodies expressing their voices. Each event is a scream - indeed even the
glissando - of the strength of the word that sometimes abruptly becomes
a rock, a solid surface, not in the least fluvial, as is the narrative
of a tale, novel or poetic epic. With both of them, there is no more
trace of ancient prosodies, no more trace of the incomprehensible
Sainte-Beuve who could claim: "I have to collect a volume of prose". The
word, the voice, the volume take shape with each other, unveiling a
theatre that theatre usually ignores, which has given it such things as a
Samuel Beckett's Fin de Partie."
Over the years Etant Donnes have
collaborated with people like Lydia Lunch, Michael Gira, Alan Vega and
Genesis P-Orridge.
L'Opposition Et Les Cases Conjuguées Sont
Réconciliées was the band's second album, originally released in 1981 on
French label Bain Total, run by die Form, on cassette only.
For this CD
re-issue we have added a long bonus track not on the original album.
Released August 9, 2019
Comes as digipak.