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Clara de Asís & Mara Winter - Repetition Of The Same Dream [Another Timbre - 2020]

Repetition Of The Same Dream is a modern composition album, which moves between haunting, piercing/shrill, and textured-often managing to be both moody and primal at the same time. The album brings together French composer/performer Clara de Asís, and Switzerland based flautist Mara Winter- it was recorded last year when much of the world was in lockdown- and it highlights both mournfulness & moody creativity.

The release appears on the always worthy Another Timbre- a UK label that focuses in on releasing modern composition, modern classical fare & improv. The CD release is presented in the labels house style minimal white mini gatefold packaging- with the front cover taking in a painting by Australia painter Luisa Blignaut, which feature a series of vertical coloured lines of different thickness.


For the album, Clara de Asís plays bowed objects, percussion & electronics. And Mara Winter plays the flute. In all the release features five tracks- with runtimes between two and twenty minutes, with a total CD runtime of fifty-three minutes.

We open with the just over twelve minutes of “Still Water” here we find a slowed & subtly serrated blend of piecing sine waves, glum pipe hovers, and waving electro drones- it’s certainly a very brave opening statement that sits squarely between seared & haunted. Next, we have “Wind That Walks”- this once again comes in around the twelve-minute mark, and stands as my favourite moment here as the pair seem to balance perfectly moodiness & subdued textural sear. The tracks built around slurred & slowly pitch-shifting electro grain and distant waving billows, which in time get quite ethnically playful- very much bringing to mind walking through a strangely glowing haze, as wind batters & bays around you.

Tracks three & four are shorter- we have the two & half minutes of the title track, which is just mournful sweeping flute dips ‘n’ ebbs which had a distinctive American Indian feel to them. Then there is “Present Omission” which is five & a half minutes of rewarding layered circular textural drag ‘n’ clutter.

The release is topped off with the albums longest track- the just shy of twenty-one minutes of “A Passage Through”- here we go on a journey of fog horn-like note hovers, that build in persistency & later shift pitch.  With the later half finding more seared waving & forking hovers coming into play- either created by electronics or via slightly modified flute. The tracks interesting enough in it’s sombre, later pressing feel- though I did feel it could have done what it needed to do in half it’s time.


If you enjoy where sourly seared and haunted meet I’d say give Repetition Of The Same Dream a go. Not all of what's on offer took off and landed perfectly, but it’s certainly an interesting enough collaboration.

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Roger Batty
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