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De Klok - Stop The Clock LP
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Wild broken heart healing procedure through time distorted tape recordings by T. Delaunay (panoptique), D.L. Byrne (Charmaine’s Names) and J. Warmenbol (Kabaal).
Minimalistic mystery pop by the clue chasers De Klok, who recorded their spontaneous first album under one moon and one sun during an intense session of investigation, bribery, calculations, doubts, and beard-scratching. The result: 14 tracks recorded on tape—including hazardous interludes. A glimpse into this post-spy-punk world, made up of croony voices, hypnotic basslines, and lo-fi drums, by the three international agents Charmaine’s Names, Kabaal, and Constance Chlore / Panoptique.
American citizen David L. Byrne drew attention during his studies at XXXXX where his works on combined mathematics, quantum physics, bacteriology and philosophy, with a holistic approach to rise and fall of species that necessarily pushed him to the margins of universitary milieu, to the point that he seems to have decided to adopt a nomadic lifestyle through North America in his bus / laboratory, becoming a hard-to-follow case. His first visit to Europe was probably in March 2023, when he joined the annual reunion of Belgian consortium known as KRAAK under the moniker Charmaine’s Names. Following his appearance at this annual worldly appointment, he was seen in different European cities such as Berlin, Paris and Marseille, where he finally met up with self-proclaimed doctor Théo Delaunay. Obsessed with « the bioacoustics of pain », Delaunay was curating a third year of conferences about sonic stimulation of germs and liquids in human body at the experiment center L'Embobineuse, located in Belle-de-Mai, Marseille. He was then in regular contact with Belgian expatriate and psychedelics enthusiast Jakob Warmenbol, whose - to say the least - percussive approach of time distortion and electronics received unanimous acclaim as part of the research program, to which he was regularly associated since 2022.
After hearing of Byrne’s works and the strong peer validation he earned in Northern Europe, T. Delaunay invited the American to explicitate his views on April 1st, 2023 to an online radio broadcast he co-curated with controversial chemist Alexia Rigal - Bouche à Goutte - thus conqueering minds of a niche yet informed marseillaise audience.
After a 6-month hiatus when Byrne engaged in coastal probing along the Gulf of Mexico and mid-Atlantic, he appeared in Strasbourg, apparently reactivated to some dubious cause. Seizing the opportunity, Delaunay invited Byrne to engage in larger scale experiments at L'Embobineuse, in support of sonic voyagers evacuating junta in Niger. Involvement against the military junta has not been confirmed, but on the night of the planned presentation, Byrne was struck a blow from home, wherever that is. It is understood that he lost a partner to unknown treachery, and vowed to forge a new identity for protection. Emergency medical routine took place at l'Embobineuse the very next day, Sept. 17th 2023. The three, Byrne, Delaunay, and Warmenbol intended to scrub all positive identifiers away, but the procedure seems to have gotten out of control, enhancing their senses with considerable emphasis on sound. Armed with these as-yet-unexplained antennae, the three engaged in what can only be described as psychic communication, recording tapes of mysterious messages to persons unknown. The process lasted till next morning in the labs where sound got modulated, repeated and distorted following a grid that only the three seem to theoretically master.
Despite distance, contact was recurrent in the following months after that day. Running the files through their servers for analysis, they found out coherent results, persuaded to have found a breach - or at least a procedure to distort time through bodies and sound. Odds are that it is what the name of their group - De Klok is flamish for The Clock - stands for. This record contains excerpts of those experiments, selected on the basis of understandability for both initiated and first-level personnel.
Vinyl issue of the C-29 cassette released on June 2024 by Simple Music Experience. Includes two unreleased tracks : Check the Mic & Gently Roll The Tides.
All tracks are composed and performed by De Klok:
Jakob Warmenbol: Drums, Casio Synthesizer
Théo Delaunay: Bass
David L Byrne : Vocals, Jen Synthesizer
Recorded and mixed by De Klok at L’Embobineuse (Marseille) on September 20, 2023.
Digital & vinyl remastering: Guillaume Lespinasse
Design : Alex Larcier & Alan Briand
Minimalistic mystery pop by the clue chasers De Klok, who recorded their spontaneous first album under one moon and one sun during an intense session of investigation, bribery, calculations, doubts, and beard-scratching. The result: 14 tracks recorded on tape—including hazardous interludes. A glimpse into this post-spy-punk world, made up of croony voices, hypnotic basslines, and lo-fi drums, by the three international agents Charmaine’s Names, Kabaal, and Constance Chlore / Panoptique.
American citizen David L. Byrne drew attention during his studies at XXXXX where his works on combined mathematics, quantum physics, bacteriology and philosophy, with a holistic approach to rise and fall of species that necessarily pushed him to the margins of universitary milieu, to the point that he seems to have decided to adopt a nomadic lifestyle through North America in his bus / laboratory, becoming a hard-to-follow case. His first visit to Europe was probably in March 2023, when he joined the annual reunion of Belgian consortium known as KRAAK under the moniker Charmaine’s Names. Following his appearance at this annual worldly appointment, he was seen in different European cities such as Berlin, Paris and Marseille, where he finally met up with self-proclaimed doctor Théo Delaunay. Obsessed with « the bioacoustics of pain », Delaunay was curating a third year of conferences about sonic stimulation of germs and liquids in human body at the experiment center L'Embobineuse, located in Belle-de-Mai, Marseille. He was then in regular contact with Belgian expatriate and psychedelics enthusiast Jakob Warmenbol, whose - to say the least - percussive approach of time distortion and electronics received unanimous acclaim as part of the research program, to which he was regularly associated since 2022.
After hearing of Byrne’s works and the strong peer validation he earned in Northern Europe, T. Delaunay invited the American to explicitate his views on April 1st, 2023 to an online radio broadcast he co-curated with controversial chemist Alexia Rigal - Bouche à Goutte - thus conqueering minds of a niche yet informed marseillaise audience.
After a 6-month hiatus when Byrne engaged in coastal probing along the Gulf of Mexico and mid-Atlantic, he appeared in Strasbourg, apparently reactivated to some dubious cause. Seizing the opportunity, Delaunay invited Byrne to engage in larger scale experiments at L'Embobineuse, in support of sonic voyagers evacuating junta in Niger. Involvement against the military junta has not been confirmed, but on the night of the planned presentation, Byrne was struck a blow from home, wherever that is. It is understood that he lost a partner to unknown treachery, and vowed to forge a new identity for protection. Emergency medical routine took place at l'Embobineuse the very next day, Sept. 17th 2023. The three, Byrne, Delaunay, and Warmenbol intended to scrub all positive identifiers away, but the procedure seems to have gotten out of control, enhancing their senses with considerable emphasis on sound. Armed with these as-yet-unexplained antennae, the three engaged in what can only be described as psychic communication, recording tapes of mysterious messages to persons unknown. The process lasted till next morning in the labs where sound got modulated, repeated and distorted following a grid that only the three seem to theoretically master.
Despite distance, contact was recurrent in the following months after that day. Running the files through their servers for analysis, they found out coherent results, persuaded to have found a breach - or at least a procedure to distort time through bodies and sound. Odds are that it is what the name of their group - De Klok is flamish for The Clock - stands for. This record contains excerpts of those experiments, selected on the basis of understandability for both initiated and first-level personnel.
Vinyl issue of the C-29 cassette released on June 2024 by Simple Music Experience. Includes two unreleased tracks : Check the Mic & Gently Roll The Tides.
All tracks are composed and performed by De Klok:
Jakob Warmenbol: Drums, Casio Synthesizer
Théo Delaunay: Bass
David L Byrne : Vocals, Jen Synthesizer
Recorded and mixed by De Klok at L’Embobineuse (Marseille) on September 20, 2023.
Digital & vinyl remastering: Guillaume Lespinasse
Design : Alex Larcier & Alan Briand
