Dangerous Orbits

Description

Bérangère Maximin makes finely disturbing and instinctive electronic music. An exceptional sound sculptor, she started in an academic environment with electroacoustic training and progressively integrated contributions from post-punk, dub, and sound art into a highly personal style, creating sensual and hypnotic productions with immediate impact. BM arrived in mainland France from her native Reunion Island at the age of fifteen. She studied with concrete music composer Denis Dufour (a member of the famous Ina-GRM and a student of Pierre Schaeffer) and released her first album on Tzadik, John Zorn's label. Influenced by composers such as François Bayle, Luc Ferrari, Eliane Radigue, as well as by the precursors of glitch electronic music, Bérangère develops her own approach both in the studio and in concert, and leverages her experiences gained through collaborations with Fennesz, Rhys Chatham, Richard Pinhas, or Fred Frith (with whom she has performed in a duo). *Dangerous Orbits* is Bérangère Maximin's fourth album and her first for Crammed Discs' Made To Measure collection. Watermark voices, strange melodies, powerful sub-bass, spacious drones, oceanic vibrations, and orchestral bursts circulate throughout, balancing drama and lightness, with an evident drive within a multidimensional, expansive, and primitive universe.