BRYAN SENTI & DOMINIC BOUFFARD - Mirage (Single)
Discover the album Killing Horizon, the new collaboration between Bryan Senti and Dominic Bouffard.
Immerse yourself in an emotionally rich sonic universe, where each track offers an authentic and captivating listening experience.
From Bryan Senti:
In the middle of 2020,the London based experimental composer and guitarist Dominic Bouffard asked me if I’d like to work together on a record. Each of us decided to work independently and then at the end of the week we’d meet on zoom, pass along our sessions to one another, and then have a beer and a chat about the pandemic, art, philosphy and whatever else was brewing in our lives. In this way, each track came together one fragment at a time, becoming a journal of our feelings and conversations during that uncertain time.
Now when I listen back to Killing Horizon (“Killing Horizon” being a term borrowed from physics concerning black holes), I’m reminded of the void we all felt at the beginning of the pandemic, which to me is alluded to in books like Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and films like Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia. I’m happy we stumbled upon Nat Martin’s photograph, “Barren Landscape”, which would become our album artwork, because his print illustrated what we were hearing. The majority of the record was recorded by ourselves in our respective home studios in London and Los Angeles. Noah Hoffeld added cello remotely in upstate New York. The record was mixed by Francesco Donadello at Vox-Ton in Berlin and then mastered by Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering in Berlin.
Biographies
Bryan Senti is a BAFTA winning first-generation Latin American composer, multi instrumentalist, and producer. His debut crossover LP, Manu was released on the prestigious French Independent, Naïve to critical acclaim and recent collaborations include numerous projects with Dustin O’Halloran including the recently released 1001 via Deutsche Grammophon.
Dominic Bouffard is an anglo-french, London-born guitarist, experimental composer and interdisciplinary artist. One half of indie-folk duo Emperors of Rome, and formerly a member of critically acclaimed bands Sona Fariq and Queen Adreena. He has collaborated with Lou Reed, Rufus Wainwright, Coco Rosie and Daniel Hope, while exploring avant-garde theatre, contemporary dance and ‘performance’ with directors such as Robert Wilson. His composition and improvisation focuses on (mis)uses of the electric guitar and has been performed internationally by major interpreters such as Ludi Quartet Kernow and Sergio Sorrentino. Pop Matters have called him ‘a writer and musician of both combustible aggression and intense, mathematical precision.’ He is also a published writer internationally exhibited visual artist.
