Paul Ramage – Détours de Manège [CS]

"'One for the deeper listeners who really like to get their ear’s teeth in there, ‘Detours de Manège’ is an uncompromising, even uncomfortable, but not unmanageable, session that seeks to upend tradition into new forms. Its two durational works bookend the palate cleansing structural abstraction of ‘Impasse Pour Les Grands Espaces,’ with the 10 minute ‘Détours de Manège’ nodding to Samuel Beckett’s ‘The Lost Ones’ via craftily spaced-out, slurred low end and psychoacoustic timbral fuckery that really draws the ear in, while ‘Change of Course’ sees him work much more subtly with choreographer Anthony Prigent to realise a skewed take on Breton dance tradition, that transitions from near imperceptible low end to more intricate pulses and greyscale noise edging on the Mika Vainio-esque. -- Boomkat"

Dasa Tapes, 2021