: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : Artist......: Joni Void : Album.......: Mise En Abyme : : Label.......: Constellation Records .. .:.. . Genre.......: Avantgarde : Catnr.......: CST140 . ' Source......: CD , ; Rip.date....: 2019-07-22 Str.date....: 2019-03-29 Quality.....: 263kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://cstrecords.com ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 1. Paradox (Introspection) 1:13 2. Dysfunctional Helper (with Noah) 3:42 3. Lov-Ender (with YlangYlang) 4:22 4. Abusers (with Sarah PagΘ) 4:02 5. Non-Dit (with N NAO) 5:32 6. No Reply (Interruption) 3:35 7. Safe House 2:52 8. Cinetrauma 4:02 9. Voix Sans Issue 5:32 10. Deep Impression / Im Depression 2:42 11. Persistence 6:02 12. Resolve (Outrospection) 2:22 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 45:58 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 89.74 ______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: Mise En Abyme is the second full-length by Joni Void, the :, : avant-electronica project of France/Canada producer Jean Cousin, : :' following his acutely accomplished and acclaimed 2017 debut ': ,: album Selfless. (#8 Experimental Album of 2017 at Pitchfork, :, : among other accolades.) : :' ': ,: Mise En Abyme refers to the aesthetic technique of putting a :, : copy within the work itself, a story within a story, as a : :' metafunction that aims to reflect the object back onto the ': ,: perceptual subject in an explicitly conceptual way. Cousin also :, : plays upon the literal etymology of the term û ôplaced into : :' abyssö û invoking the recursive neuroses of identity and ': ,: self-consciousness, the lacuna of seeing/being-seen and :, : projection/introspection; the metaphoric standing between two : :' mirrors, plunged into spatio-temporal disorientation through ': ,: reflections multiplied to an impossibly infinite vanishing :, : point. : :' ': ,: Consistent with Selfless, the primary raw material for the :, : sample-based cut-up songcraft on Mise En Abyme is CousinÆs : :' recordings of the voices of various friends. His self-professed ': ,: body/voice dysmorphia and search for the :, : disembodied-yet-emotional transcendent subject continues to : :' mandate the use of other (mostly wordless) voices in the ': ,: construction of his sublimely affecting electronic-minimalist :, : compositions. But where Selfless was a restless, kinetic and : :' visceral work of outer projection, Mise En Abyme is markedly ': ,: more introspective and meditative û explicitly in search of :, : intimacy and recuperative beauty. : :' ': ,: Grappling with a cascade of heartbreaks and discontinuities over :, : the past year, Cousin also calls the new album a ôtime-travel : :' experimentö, as he culls sounds from devices and sources ': ,: spanning childhood to the present (phones, cameras, video games, :, : home movies) to retrieve and reframe subjective memories, : :' histories and ôregressions through former selvesö through ': ,: immersion in the evocative potential of the mostly wordless :, : voices of others. The resulting sonic portraits simultaneously : :' convey formally abstract dislocations and highly emotive ': ,: warmth, interiority, humanity and specificity. Side A especially :, : highlights these works û the ôwith peopleö half of the album, : :' replete with contemplative, melancholic songs, each featuring a ': ,: deconstructed performance by a different female voice, propelled :, : to varying degrees with additive rhythmic and textural layers. : :' Side B is the ôisolationö half: vocal samples continue to make ': ,: appearances, including CousinÆs own voice on the vertiginous :, : ôVoix Sans Issueö and his own lyrics on the computer-narrated : :' text-to-speech spoken word of the confessional ôDeep ': ,: Impressionö û but the contrasting vibe is more claustrophobic, :, : anxious and febrile. Mise En Abyme ends with a throwback to : :' CousinÆs pre-Joni Void keyboard-based works as johnny_ripper on ': ,: the gorgeous Rhodes piece ôPersistenceö, while the closing :, : exuberant maximalist jam of ôResolveö fittingly samples every : :' previous song and locks the album into a self-referential ': ,: recursive sequence. :, : : :' ': : ' '.. ..' .. . :........... . . . . ............: . . ______________ ______________ \ / \ / \ / Shout out to all our homies from: \ / \ / \ / \ / iPC BOSS HiT2000 1way UKi i8 RNS \ / \ / RAGEMP3 MANDY DV8 pLAN9 BUTT \ / \ / \ / \/ ____ ____ \/ \ / F A N G \ / \/ 2 0 1 9 \/