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Laurie Torres
Après coup
Tonal Union
- Cat No: TU009LP
- updated:2025-03-09
ピアノをメインにドラム、シンセサイザー、フィールドレコーディングや彼女の声なども織り交ぜたピアノ・インプロビゼーション。カナダ、モントリオールの作曲家、マルチ楽器奏者Laurie TorresのアルバムがTonal Unionからリリースされました。、ユニークさ、「とらえどころのないもの」でもあり、じっくりと感情を揺らすような、美しさ、力強さのある素晴らしい音楽。
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Laurie Torres is a Canadian musician and composer raised in Montréal, Québec by Haitian parents. Since 2008, she has been a trusted stage and studio performer for Julia Jacklin, Pomme, and Land of Talk, as well as being a founding member of Folly & The Hunter, with whom she recorded four studio albums and toured Canada, Europe and the UK.
In 2023, Laurie shifted focus to work on her own creations, a process of making time - the will and the need becoming omnipresent. Drawing creative inspiration from contemporary artists like Tirzah, Gia Margaret, Valentina Magaletti, Tara Clerkin Trio and ML Buch, 'Après coup' finds Torres intersecting at a pivotal moment where artists whose marginalized identities are at the forefront in creating a beautiful array of "other options".
"Being othered and tokenized as a woman who plays music, as well as a queer and black person, takes a toll, while also positively feeding a strong urge to push and be seen."
Centering around piano, drums and synthesizer with interweaving field recordings, 'Après coup' follows the precursor ep 'Correspondances' in the form of a sprawling 11-track album. Translating directly from French - afterwards, after the event - its title subliminally points at something deeper between the lines. Recorded in 2023 between tours in a small window of time where 'normal' life hadn't quite recommenced, Torres meticulously crafted her debut solo material in view of surrounding nature, all providing the perfect nourishment for long streams of improvisation. Built right up to the edge of a lake, Studio Wild in St-Zénon, Québec offered an unparalleled location and set up for her freeform creativity.
Instrumental music seemed like a natural response and evolution for Torres who had long basked in the world of "pop music" as she elaborates: "I had an urge to use creativity as a sort of resting place, a place where things can unfold slowly and take time to reveal themselves. In other worlds words, I felt the need to make something slower, more elusive"
The immediacy of Torres' recorded takes doubled with minimal overdubs create a fiercely direct, intimate and unpolished lo-fi beauty. 'Après coup' then is self-reflective, open and inclusive with Torres allowing herself to be fully seen. An album to be felt at close distance with unrivalled authenticity. This album stands as a testament to Laurie's artistic evolution and serves as a beacon, inspiring her to continue nurturing her own creative pursuits and finding exhilarating freedom.
Laurie Torres is a Canadian musician and composer raised in Montréal, Québec by Haitian parents. Since 2008, she has been a trusted stage and studio performer for Julia Jacklin, Pomme, and Land of Talk, as well as being a founding member of Folly & The Hunter, with whom she recorded four studio albums and toured Canada, Europe and the UK.
In 2023, Laurie shifted focus to work on her own creations, a process of making time - the will and the need becoming omnipresent. Drawing creative inspiration from contemporary artists like Tirzah, Gia Margaret, Valentina Magaletti, Tara Clerkin Trio and ML Buch, 'Après coup' finds Torres intersecting at a pivotal moment where artists whose marginalized identities are at the forefront in creating a beautiful array of "other options".
"Being othered and tokenized as a woman who plays music, as well as a queer and black person, takes a toll, while also positively feeding a strong urge to push and be seen."
Centering around piano, drums and synthesizer with interweaving field recordings, 'Après coup' follows the precursor ep 'Correspondances' in the form of a sprawling 11-track album. Translating directly from French - afterwards, after the event - its title subliminally points at something deeper between the lines. Recorded in 2023 between tours in a small window of time where 'normal' life hadn't quite recommenced, Torres meticulously crafted her debut solo material in view of surrounding nature, all providing the perfect nourishment for long streams of improvisation. Built right up to the edge of a lake, Studio Wild in St-Zénon, Québec offered an unparalleled location and set up for her freeform creativity.
Instrumental music seemed like a natural response and evolution for Torres who had long basked in the world of "pop music" as she elaborates: "I had an urge to use creativity as a sort of resting place, a place where things can unfold slowly and take time to reveal themselves. In other worlds words, I felt the need to make something slower, more elusive"
The immediacy of Torres' recorded takes doubled with minimal overdubs create a fiercely direct, intimate and unpolished lo-fi beauty. 'Après coup' then is self-reflective, open and inclusive with Torres allowing herself to be fully seen. An album to be felt at close distance with unrivalled authenticity. This album stands as a testament to Laurie's artistic evolution and serves as a beacon, inspiring her to continue nurturing her own creative pursuits and finding exhilarating freedom.
インディーフォークバンドFolly And The Hunterでの活動や、フランスのSSWポムやノンバイナリー・アーチストRae Spoon、Land Of Talk等々の作品でも信頼されてきたマルチミュージシャン。、ジア・マーガレット、ヴァレンティナ・マガレッティ、タラ・クラーキン・トリオなど当店でも人気を博したアーチストにもインスピレーションを受けたというアルバム。
「音楽を演奏する女性として、またクィアであり黒人であることで、異質であり、形骸化された存在であることは、犠牲を伴うと同時に、押し進めたい、見てもらいたいという強い衝動に積極的に駆られる」
「私には、創造性を一種の休息場所、物事がゆっくりと展開し、時間をかけて明らかになる場所として使いたいという衝動があった。つまり、もっとゆっくりした、とらえどころのないものを作る必要性を感じたのです。」と、語っています。これまでのポップミュージックから離れ、インストゥルメンタル・ミュージックへのアプローチで ゆったりと、オーガニック・アンビエント的なサウンドから、ミニマルな音楽、エモーショナルで躍動感のある音まで緩さとは違う音の力があります。素晴らしいです。注目されたBlue Lakeのリリース、Passepartout Duo とイノヤマランドのコラボレーションなど良質なリリースが続く〈Tonal Union〉レーベルも注目ですね。 (サイトウ)