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Nonante​-​neuf fragments harenois

by Flavien Gillié

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drone2805 Concrete music, perhaps. But also one of the best drone albums I've listened to. Because the work offers deep bass, but sober and punctual accompanied by mediums softened with delicate and moderate treble. The atmosphere is hard and singular, preserving an aerial fluidity so that it produces a feeling of intense calm.Superb work by Flavien Gillié!
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Haren est une commune bruxelloise où des industries abandonnées ont pris la place de terrains agricoles. Ici de nombreux noeuds ferroviaires se lient et se délient tandis que les avions ne décollent plus de son aéroport disparu, mais de Zaventem tout proche.
Sans attrait et pourtant désirable, je m’y suis immédiatement senti bien, à la frontière de l’abandon et de l’oubli ; j’ai pu contempler et écouter des lieux désolés avec un étonnement sans cesse renouvelé d’être encore à Bruxelles.
Les usines Wanson où j’ai enregistré en 2011 ont depuis été détruites ; elles feront place prochainement à une méga-prison. La cité-jardin Hamesse à l’état de ruine va être rénovée.
Les enregistrements sont toujours une archive d’un présent disparu ; à Haren , plus qu’ailleurs, j’ai cette conscience de l’éphémère, de l’impermanence. J’ai voulu enregistrer beaucoup pour garder en mémoire tous ces lieux, toutes ces ambiances sonores ; je les ai ensuite recomposées, pour les faire miennes un instant, avant de les donner à entendre.

(Flavien Gillié, Mai 2016)
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Haren is a Brussels commune where deserted industries have supplanted the farmlands. Here, plenty of rail hubs bind and unbind while planes don’t take off anymore from its missing airport, but from nearby Zaventem.
Despite it being unattractive though desirable, I felt immediately at ease over there, at the frontier of abandonment & forgetting ; I could listen to & gaze at desolate spots with a constantly renewed amazement of still being in Brussels.
The Wanson factories where I have recorded in 2011 have since been destroyed, they’ll make room shortly for a mega-prison. The Hamesse garden city left in a state of ruin will be renovated.
The recordings are always an archive of a disappeared now ; in Haren more than anywhere else, I’m aware of the ephemeral, the impermanence.
I wanted to record a lot to keep all those sound environments, all those places in memory ; then I recomposed them to make them mine for a moment, before handing them over to for listening.
(translation : Daniel Crokaert)

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released June 9, 2016

LOCATION : Haren (BE) : Old Wanson Factories - Cité Paroisse - Millenium (Teletubbies) Park -
along various railways, under various airplanes.

Recorded and composed by Flavien Gillié.

Cover design & treatments by Daniel Crokaert.
Based mainly on photos by Flavien Gillié.
Portrait by Alice Just.

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