Frederic Gerchambeau – Near Death Experience

Description

Tracklist

Floating In Nowhere 9’56
Where Am I? 10’46
Seeing My Face 10’52
Is This Being Dead? 10’46
Who’s Calling Me? 10’45
Slowly Returning 10’35

Total: 63’50

Near Death Experience
Near Death Experience, after Ashta, Pancha Bhuta, Flyby In The Sky and Alcheringa, is the result of my fifth musical collaboration with Philippe Wauman, whose open-mindedness, sense of evanescent and subtle melody, and ability to be constantly different while remaining profoundly coherent, I immediately appreciated.

Philippe and I love to travel. Ashta, according to an ancient Persian poem, was a horizontal flight over the seven valleys leading to an immense mountain symbolizing God. Pancha Bhuta, according to the Vedic tradition of ancient India, was a vertical flight from the depths of thick matter to the impalpable ether. Building on our first odysseys, I then proposed to Philippe an extraordinary journey through the planets of our solar system. This is what resulted in Flyby In The Sky. Wishing to take our explorations even further, Philippe and I then chose Dreamtime as the theme of our fourth musical journey.

And now here is Near Death Experience, another journey, but this time to the edge of death, on the threshold of the unfathomable, of the ultimate mystery. 6 stages, 63 minutes, it was truly ambitious and perhaps also vaguely risky. Philippe followed me in this slightly crazy project. So I laid the foundations of the album by creating 6 carefully crafted sequences. And Philippe Wauman did the rest, from the most beautiful to the strangest, depending on the moments recounted.

It is therefore him who must be thanked, taking my sequences as a springboard, for his magnificent melodic and sonic discoveries which abound in Near Death Experience.