CO LA
About
Projet solo du producteur Matthew Papich, étrange explorateur d'une musique électronique basée pratiquement uniquement sur le sample et auteur de deux albums-perles-sucreries-lounge-zarbi acclamées par les critiques spécialisées sorti dur les labels NNA Tapes et Software/Mexican Summer. Une approche exubérante, complexe sous ses fausses apparences de simplicité évidente, mélangeant tout azimut tonalité bucoliques implacables, noyaux-saccharines de "tubes" reggae, exotica ou autres groupes 60ies féminins, le tout avec des touches approches élusives et abstraites par moments. Co La génère une sorte de "nouvelle exotica" décalée au sein de laquelle diverses sources énigmatiques ou carrément reconnaissables sont mélangées/bousculées vers un étonnant point de transcendance pour un résultat par moment imprévisible. Touches carrément dance-floor, doo-wop transformé en House music obscure, abîmes/gouffres synthétiques, chants/voix obsédantes, pâturages plus apaisants, grosses pointes dub, clins d'oeil à Psychic TV, à la pop mainstream japonaise, éclectisme absolu dans le choix des sources utilisées, créant de véritables mini-mosaïques "dansantes", sensuelles et immédiates.
Matthew Papich was part of the great Ecstatic Sunshine band with Dustin Wong. Co La is now his primary project, whose explorations of sample-based electronic music have culminated in ‘Moody Coup’ after his first great album that used samples of 50's rock, classic reggae & dub... in a very inventive way, thus creating a brilliant fusion music hard to pin down & describe.
The emotional palette of ‘Moody Coup’, Papich’s second album and first for Software Recording Co., is more complex than its exuberant predecessor ‘Daydream Repeater’ (NNA Tapes 2011). Where that record’s relentlessly bucolic tone drew from the saccharine core of reggae, exotica, and 60s girl groups, the bedrock of Moody Coup is elusive and abstract. The various genre coinages that have been tagged to Co La’s music before – new exotica, Avant-luxury, etc. – fail to accommodate the brainier obsessions behind Moody Coup’s genesis. A new brand of alchemy occurs in the album, where cryptic sources are enhanced and embellished to a point of transcendence. This departure is the brilliant process of Co La’s unpredictable electronic music.
Matthew Papich was part of the great Ecstatic Sunshine band with Dustin Wong. Co La is now his primary project, whose explorations of sample-based electronic music have culminated in ‘Moody Coup’ after his first great album that used samples of 50's rock, classic reggae & dub... in a very inventive way, thus creating a brilliant fusion music hard to pin down & describe.
The emotional palette of ‘Moody Coup’, Papich’s second album and first for Software Recording Co., is more complex than its exuberant predecessor ‘Daydream Repeater’ (NNA Tapes 2011). Where that record’s relentlessly bucolic tone drew from the saccharine core of reggae, exotica, and 60s girl groups, the bedrock of Moody Coup is elusive and abstract. The various genre coinages that have been tagged to Co La’s music before – new exotica, Avant-luxury, etc. – fail to accommodate the brainier obsessions behind Moody Coup’s genesis. A new brand of alchemy occurs in the album, where cryptic sources are enhanced and embellished to a point of transcendence. This departure is the brilliant process of Co La’s unpredictable electronic music.
Co La
Daydream Repeater
[NNA Tapes; 2011]
By Guy Frowny
Styles: poststructuralist reggae, postmodern pop, unpostloop loops
Others: Ecstatic Sunshine, King Tubby...
The latest installment of Pitchfork.tv's "+1" series, which focuses on live performance, spends time with Matthew Papich, aka Co La, during his performance at the Brooklyn venue 285 Kent...
En collaboration avec la Cave12
MERCREDI 08 MAI - 20h30 / 1er concert 20h45 précises!!
TOTALLY CRAZY AVANT-ECLECTICITY NIGHT!
20h45 précises: WALTER GROSS (usa)
freak-noise...