The Blue of Distance

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	1.	North 05:26
	2.	East 03:42
	3.	West 04:13
	4.	South 03:26
	5.	Beyond 04:48

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Being lost...

These sound pieces came to my mind while reading A Field Guide to Getting Lost, the inspirational text from American writer Rebecca Solnit (2005). "The Blue of Distance" – which gives its name to my work – is a recurring title Solnit uses four times through the pages, as a sort of "interlude chapter".

In one of these chapters, she writes : « Every love has its landscape. Thus place, which is always spoken as though it only counts when you're present, possesses you in its absence, takes on another life as a sense of place, a summoning in the imagination with all the atmospheric effect and association of powerful emotion. »

The idea of loss is also present in my relationship with the piano. As a kid and a teenager, I trained as a classical pianist. Despite my strong love for this instrument, my skills gradually faded away, carried by everyday life, parenthood, professional career, love stories, relocations and also a few failures...

Get lost...

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released January 20, 2023

Composed, recorded and produced by squncr

squncr : Yamaha CP70 electric piano, Roland RE-101 Space Echo, synthesizers, field recordings.

Mastering by Emanuele Battisti

Artwork by squncr
Graphic project by Lucien de Baixo

Catalog number : EL43

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squncr France

François Larini (aka squncr) sound practice is focused on ambient, drones, tapes, field recording, improvisation and archives balancing between personal narrative and ethnographic documents.

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