Die unseren Lesern von ihrer Zusammenarbeit mit Oiseaux-Tempête bekannte Multiinstrumentalistin und Musiklehrerin Christine Ott bringt unter dem Titel “Chimères (pour Ondes Martenot)” einen neuen Longplayer heraus. Alle der acht von Paul Régimbeau (Mondkopf) und Frédéric D. Oberland (Oiseaux-Tempête) produzierten Kompositionen sind mit dem in den 20ern entwickelten Ondes Martenot-Synthesizer eingespielt, einem der ältesten elektronischen Musikinstrumente, das im Laufe des vorigen Jahrhunderts in ganz unterschiedlichen Musikarten Verwendung fand und doch nie die Popularität etwa des Theremin beanspruchen konnte. Die mit visuellen “Chemigrammen” von Fanny Béguély begleiteten Chimären sind von teilweise meditativer, oftmals mystisch-entrückter Natur und einem trotz des Solospiels wechselvollen Klangbild.
“Chimères (pour Ondes Martenot) was born out of the desire of NAHAL Recordings and Christine Ott (virtuoso ondist and multi-instrumentalist teaching at the Strasbourg Conservatory) to offer an unprecedented album, entirely conceived using only her Ondes Martenot. If Christine Ott has often accompanied other musicians on Ondes Martenot (Yann Tiersen, Tindersticks, Raphelson, Dominique A, Syd Matters, Oiseaux-Tempête, FOUDRE!…), it is the first time that she decides to place her strange instrument at the center of her compositions, entrusting the musical production to Paul Régimbeau (Mondkopf) and Frédéric D. Oberland (Oiseaux-Tempête) manipulating the original sound waves live via effect boxes and sonic modulations external to the instrument. A solo album made with several hands that plunges the precious matrix, via a current repertoire half composed/half improvised, in the prism of the last hundred years of experimental music, electronic culture and habitus to synthetic sounds.
Christine Ott’s eight Chimeras are like snatches of distant dreams, whispers of ghosts, echoes of rustle and symphonies that once inhabited the instrument, seeming to have travelled through the ages without losing their power and relevance. The composer Christine Ott tells a cosmic journey with cinematographic colours, which rubs shoulders with electronic stars and caresses incandescent planets. A nebula of layers of waves superimposed and triturated by effects that make her songs sometimes robotic, sometimes celestial. A sonic and sensual magma, radiant, as if weightless.” (NAHAL Recordings)