RADIESTHÉSIE by Bertrand Gauguet

RADIESTHÉSIE

Bertrand Gauguet : alto & baryton saxophones
Jean-Luc Petit : contrabass clarinet & sopranino saxophone

Le pendule de Thot – 13:39
L’effet idéomoteur – 06:04
L’antenne de Lecher – 15:26
L’effet Barnum – 10:11
Sonusmancie – 13:59


Total time : 59:19



Recorded and masterised by Pierre-Henry Thiebaut
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2024 June 22, 23 – Saint Martin chapel, Bignac (Fr)

CD – Unrec records – UNREC 251
, 2025


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Each track presents a unique interplay of timbres and moods, reflecting the spontaneous nature of their improvisations. The chapel’s resonant space becomes an integral participant, its stone walls amplifying and enriching the organic textures produced by the instruments.
The album’s titles, such as “Le pendule de Thöt” and “L’antenne de Lecher”, evoke a sense of mysticism and exploration, perhaps alluding to the ancient art of dowsing – ‘radiesthésie’ in French. This thematic choice mirrors the musicians’ quest to unearth hidden sonic landscapes, much like dowsers seeking unseen sources beneath the earth’s surface. (Vito Camarretta, ChainDLK)

Les titres se succèdent et voient les musiciens alterner les densités, à l’image des très nocturnes L’Antenne de Lecher et Sonusmancie, incursions dans la lenteur et l’étrangeté, le suspense et le mystère. Un album habité d’entente et d’écoute, de communion et de connexion. Excellent.
(Roland Torres, Silence and sound)

Bertrand Gauguet plays the alto and baryton saxophone in contexts of improvisation of new music. Also a composer of electronic music, he has produced many original pieces and soundtracks for dance, cinema and radio. His interests explore the interplay of frequencies, multiphony, sounds at the thresholds of audibility, breath and more broadly sound as a medium for meditation.

bertrandgauguet.com