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Hotel Nota

by Roméo Poirier

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Longe-côte 05:30
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Sablage 03:20
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Hotel Nota 03:33
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Pénombre 02:44
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Du rocher 04:22
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Ekphrasis 05:22
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Raccordement 03:27
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Balayage 01:45

about

Roméo Poirier debuts on Manchester’s sferic label with an evocative and beautiful round-trip to Venusian beaches and back. Working in the crème-concrète and exotica style that made his ‘Plage Arrière’ a cult hit in 2016 (and on vinyl in 2019), Poirier conjures gauzily impressionistic beach scenes and heady sunny day feels from a fine mix of granular processing and bleached-out Balearic tropes in the dilapidated but deeply charming environs of ‘Hotel Nota’. Armed with a suitcase of floral shirts, trunks, paperbacks and a laptop, he checks into a lounging, relaxed and lush sound that appears to shift and shimmer with the iridescent aftereffects of a daiquiri or the warm, turquoise waters by his feet. 

Taking up residency in an imagined lounge space where Hassell and Andrew Pekler could have once seduced each evening’s guests, Poirier applies his filigree sampling and rearrangement techniques with rarified, ephemeral effect to float from smeared Hassellian brass in ‘Thalassocratie’ to smoky, ember crackle jazz in ‘Le bematiste’, and frayed loops in ‘Du Rocher’ redolent of Biosphere’s ‘Dropsonde’, with half-recognisable motifs that thread through and tie the record together like tropical spider webs.

Poirier uses tactfully textured electronics and timeless dubbing to realise an electronic simulacra of a world which becomes real through its eccentricities and cohesive integration of sounds. Trust there’s no mosquito bites or sunburn here, but you may not be able to escape the feeling you’ve been on holiday after immersing in Poirier’s careful world building. 

(Boomkat)

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released August 7, 2020

Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering.
Photography : Charlotte Miss
Artwork : Will Boyd

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Roméo Poirier Brussels, Belgium

booking: rutger@niente.be
contact: romeopoirier88@gmail.com

upcoming:

16+17+18.03.24 - and&festival, Leuven (BE)
06.04.24 - Rewire Festival, Den Haag (NL)
09.04.24 - Mutek, Barcelona (ES)
21.06.24 - Waking Life Festival (PT)
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