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  REVIEWS: Kiko C. Esseiva – Sous Les Etoiles  
     
  • His Voice, March 2009
• De:Bug, September 2008
• Touching Extremes, August 2008
• WIRE, July 2008
• Goddeau.com, July 2008
• Gaz-Eta, July 2008
• Gonzo, July 2008
• tokafi.com, June 2008
• Terz Düsseldorf, May 2008
• Laif, May 2008
• Octopus, May 2008
• Musique Machine, April 2008
• D-Side, May 2008
• Blow Up issue 120, May 2008
• Bad Alchemy, May 2008
• The Sound Projector, April 2008
• tiltrecordings.org
• Vital Weekly 620, March 2008
• Playlists
  
     
  His Voice, Petr Vrba, March 2009  
 
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  De:Bug (GER), Multipara, September 2008
  
 
Esseiva, Klangkomponist aus Lausanne, faltet in den zehn Tracks diese Hörstücks akustische Räume und Assoziationen ineinander, dass es nicht nur eine Freude ist, sondern auch schwerfällt, Vorbilder zu finden, denn die surreale Spannung in Luc Ferraris Kombinationen aus Field Recordings und Instrumentalkompositionen landen hier auf einer ganz neuen Ebene der Virtuosität. Sei zweites Album, und dieses führt uns an unsichtbaren Händen vom Treppenhaus in Apfelgehäuse, in der Barke aus der Badewanne auf den Berggipfel, durch den Rittersaal in die Windmaschine und endlich mit der Schere ans Klavier; an Händen, die allerlei Instrumentarium entwachsen, vor allem solchem, das knarrt und schrapt, schabt und kratzt, alles zwischen Tür und herkömmlichem Streichinstrument wird zum Guiro, hier fast menschlich aufseufzend, dort plötzliche wie eine Propellermaschine in weite Ferne verschwindend, und all das in lupenreinen Aufnahmen, die mit einem irritierend sensiblen Klanggespür und einem Sinn für erhabene Wirkung arrangiert sind, und dementsprechend ungemein kraftvoll aus den Boxen springen. Meine Entdeckung des Sommers.
 
 
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  Touching Extremes (I), Massimo Ricci, August 2008
  
 
When composers decide that their music will need, in the midst of everything else, environmental or concrete elements to better depict their vision, they're entering the classic "some folks got it, some folks don't" territory. Kiko C. Esseiva certainly "got it", as this superb record demonstrates. Esseiva stands among those sound artists who - like, say, Cedric Peyronnet (aka Toy.Bizarre) - are able to provide an impression of ongoing life to their structures, thus rendering them not only palatable but also highly gratifying, a sense of delight hanging on even in the most dramatic sections. Although the sources are definitely too many to be listed or just guessed - and I know for sure that most soundscapers aren't too anxious to reveal secrets - the essence of "Sous l'étoiles" is strictly electro/acoustic, in that we perceive the presence of real instruments amidst the unfamiliar ambiences created by the practised studio handler. Every incident is placed exactly where and when it should be, episodes succeeding according to a far-sighted architecture that nonetheless tends to forget rules every once in a while in favour of a healthy anarchy (well-regulated, too). Esseiva's music is "hybrid" in a very interesting acceptation of the term, in that he constantly meshes the properties and the characteristics of the chosen bits and pieces to fuse them into a nimble-footed consecutiveness, where a natural occurrence is all but the obvious consequence of a scheme made of knowledgeable choices and subplots. This is the kind of listening experience that often leaves with the mouth agape, wanting more when the disc is over. Then it's back to the miserable normality of "regular" everyday noise.
 
 
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  WIRE (GB), Keith Moliné, July 2008  
 
Swiss/spanish composer Kiko Esseiva follows his 'Musique Pour Haut-Parleurs' debut of 2004 with an assured collection of absurdist miniatures that lie at the opposite end of the spectrum of Wehowsky and TITO's work. Utensils sounded in various ways feature heavily, but the processing, though extensive, leaves their essential character intact. Esseiva has a sly comic touch that makes his collages more involving than the more rigorous 'Mahlzeit'. Purists might deem it pop concrète, but I haven't tittered so much since first heard Nurse With Wound's 'A Sucked Orange' and praise doens't come higher than that.
  
 
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  Goddeau.com (B), Jurgen Boel, July 2008
  
 
Drie jaar had de Spaans-Zwitserse Kiko C. Esseiva nodig om zijn tweede album af te werken, al zullen de meesten opmerken dat hij die tijd beter had kunnen spenderen. Sous les étoiles is immers niet direct een hapklare brok popmuziek, in zoverre er ook maar van muziek gesproken kan worden. Esseiva is nog steeds de componist van de moeilijke weg voor wie instrumenten en omgevingsgeluiden samen iets geheel nieuws kunnen vormen dat zich niet gebonden moet weten door zulke vastgeroeste concepten als ritme, noten of melodie. In die schijnbaar willekeurige opeenvolging en opeenstapeling van geluiden schuilt echter een doordacht systeem dat zich slechts met mondjesmaat laat kennen aan hen die bereid zijn zich er voor open te stellen. De 'Prélude' laat alvast het ergste en het beste vermoeden. De opbouw van strakgespannen, barstende snaren klinkt veelbelovend, maar wordt de mond gesnoerd door stemmen, gelach en achtergrondgeluiden die impliceren dat hier een performance gegeven wordt. In de volgende nummers wordt dat gevoel nog versterkt, zo is er het zonder meer vreemde 'Voyage en brise-glace' dat opnieuw minutenlang touwen en snaren strak aanspant alvorens een klaaglijke stem zijn rituele gezang mag invoegen. In 'Quelque part sous les étoiles' volgen dan holle, galmende slagen en fijne kristallen bellen die langzaam opgaan in andere onbestemde klanken, gecreëerd door de rekwisiteur van een luisterspel. De musique concrète krijgt een extra intellectualistische injectie in 'Tout tourne' (niet veel meer dan een vrouwenstem) en het chaotische huzarenstukje 'Danse des toupilles' dat zelfs zonder duidelijke melodie of structuur de aandacht weet vast te houden. De avant-gardistische compositie 'En rêve' grijpt terug naar strijkers, rommelende grondtonen en de bekende onbestemde geluiden van alledag om zijn verhaal te vertellen waarna de grote sprong uitblijft in het verrassend stille 'Le grand plongeon'. Het is haast onmogelijk om dieper in te gaan op 'Pont', 'Sous les étoiles toujours' (ondanks de mooie pianomelodie) of 'Fanfare du fin' zonder eenzelfde onduidelijke taal te gebruiken. Want hoe intrigerend Sous les étoiles ook klinkt, het is geen plaat die zich omschrijven laat zonder in postmodern, pseudo-intellectueel of vaag gewauwel te vervallen. Het lijkt wel of Esseiva er een vreemd genoegen in schept om zijn luisteraars op stang te jagen. Wie aandachtig luistert en de geluiden van alledag weet te vertalen naar 'klassieke instrumenten' hoort immers de muzikale pracht en compositorische inventiviteit die achter de schijnbare chaos van geluiden ligt. Sous les étoiles kan gemakkelijk als snobistische, intellectualistische of vergezochte moeilijkdoenerij afgedaan worden en dat zijn ongetwijfeld terechte verwijten, maar de achterliggende structuur van de nummers verraadt wel een visie die in de meeste popsongs niet te vinden is. Esseiva weet perfect waarmee hij bezig is, de vraag is alleen hoevelen bereid zijn hem te volgen.
 
 
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  Gaz-Eta (PL), Tom Sekowksi, July 2008  
 
Spanish composer Kiko C. Esseiva has a huge interest in electroacoustic work. Having released "Musiques Pour Haut-Parleurs" [Music for Loudspeakers] four years back, he now returns with "Sous les étoiles", which translates as Under the Stars. Though the album is a self-contained work, in many instances, it feels a tad disjointed. Noises, bursts of sounds actually, come and go in spurts. Perhaps that's the whole purpose of this exercise - to take listeners by surprise and throw as many curveballs as possible during the work's 42 minute duration. Quiet, oblique but never too dense or overflowing with incidental throw-away ideas, the album miraculously holds its own. While it lulls the mind in certain respects with its lazy flowing sounds, there are too many instances, where it doesn't let go of the surprise-factor and the hits keep on coming from left field. Rattling, dazzling, horrifically packed with stuff, Kiko C. Esseiva's work begs to be enjoyed on a good set of headphones. Let yourself drown in this world and make it your very own.
 
 
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  Gonzo (NL), Peter Vercauteren, July 2008
  
 
Esseiva is een jonge Zwitser met Spaanse roots, die met zijn Musique Concrète een warme groet brengt aan meesters als Luc Ferrari. De composities van Esseiva zijn samengesteld uit gevonden materiaal (veldopnames, stemmen), een arsenaal van mishandelde akoestische instrumenten, noise en drones. Hoewel er duidelijk gecomponeerd werd, klinkt deze cd speels en collageachtig. Natuurlijk doet de mix van gedreun, kapotte muziekdozen en bevreemdende stemmen denken aan het werk van Nurse With Wound, Andrew Liles of de beginperiod van Zoviet France, maar deze heren zijn hofleveranciers ten huize (pv), dus ons hoor je niet klagen om en mondje meer.
 
 
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  tokafi.com (GER), Tobias Fischer, June 2008  
 
Walking on the edge with a smile: Melody and harmony enter the musique concrete canvas. Why do we ride a rollercoaster or watch horror movies? Because it seems to be a deeply human sentiment to enjoy walking on the edge and of feeling that irresistible sensation which comes when flirting with danger. On only his second solo album in four years time, Half Spanish, Half-Swiss artist Kiko C. Esseiva attempts recreating these emotions in his music - and without the use of brute force, using gentle persuasion and a clever sense of psychology only. Esseiva has in fact turned a widely acknowledged realisation - that pure sound is the most primordial and immediate stimulus to enter the ear and pierce the brain - from dry theory into a full-on and sympathetically confrontational work of art. It places him directly in line with artists like John Cage, who felt the need to free music from the wounds inflicted by composition and conscious rearrangement and manipulation, while simultaneously heading for something tangibly and promisingly new. 'Sous les etoiles' accordingly leads listeners to a world where the chewing of an apple can represent a Leitmotif, where the pounding of a metal jerry can duets with a Glockenspiel, where creaking doors establish a haunting presence, scissors snap in complex rhythms and swelling organ drones linger in the morning air. As the album progresses, melody and harmony chime in, entering the musique concrete canvas through surrealist brush strokes. 'En Reve' sounds as though a Bach Partita for Violin were forced through a grinder and the almost-title track 'Sous les Etoiles Toujours' places solitarily romantic nocturnal Piano drops amidst an environment of ominously billowing backwards chords. On other occasion, the unusual liaison between traditional musical elements and timbral associations is more implied than openly expressed, but the effect is no less powerful. Of course, these tracks are very much organised and planned. Esseiva balances his elements carefully, placing them side by side both in symbiotic or mutually destructive relations. When cheeky upwards-clicks bounce into attractively slurping noises, the music seems to almost fall apart, but the encounter of a premonitiously dreaming antique clockwork with a continously pounding gong and objects randomly falling into a rubber bucket develops a magical pull. In both cases, though, nothing is left to chance and the pieces display an air of regal precision. Thanks to the naive cut-up vocals of Kirsten Gigase, whose tender voice turns up in the short sketches connecting the longer instrumental pieces, the album, however, manages to escape the dangers of stubborn Academia. 'Tout tourne' ('Everything is turning'), she intones, asking the listener 'Ne faites-vous pas la toupie?' ('Will you not spin round like a top?'). The way she says it, erotic in a cool and reserved way, makes you want to be a child again. It makes these sounds appear to be moving freely and organically. 'Sous les Etoiles' is the aural equivalent of Alice's Wonderland, a space you can only access by eating yourself through a wall made of semolina pudding. It is so close you can almost touch it, without ever fully materialising, dissolving into shiny little crystals instead. Animals are blaring and screaming in the distance, but you can only make out their silhouettes. At times, this sonic painting is slightly disturbing, especially when listened to at night with the curtains closed and the stereo on full capacity. You want to turn the volume down, but you're afraid to move. Whether this sounds appealing or repulsive is up to you. In any case, it is an album which will leave few indifferent, a work which walks on the edge with a smile, knowing quite well that there is nothing to be feared.
  
 
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  Terz Düsseldorf (D), Honker, May 2008
  
 


Hier ist erstmal auf das tolle Artwork zu verweisen - das passiert ja auch nicht immer. Die Musik selbst dann haut total hin: der junge Komponist aus Lausanne produziert großartige elektroakustische Stücke, die zurecht mit dem warmen und explizit unakademischen Gestus von Grandmaster Luc Ferrari verglichen werden können. Live werden die sehr unterschiedlichen und reichhaltigen Klangtexturen über verschieden angesteuerte Raumlautsprecher präsentiert. Esseiva ist ein fantasievoller und genauer Geschichtenerzähler, der die Hörer von einer Wunderkammer in die nächste führt. Man stelle sich einen Soundtrack zu Svankmeiers "Alice in Wonderland"-Tagtraum vor, es würde perfekt passen. Dieses Album gehört zum Besten, was in diesem Jahr bislang erschienen ist.

 
 
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  Laif (PL), May 2008  
 
Kiko C. Esseiva to szwajcarsko hiszpanskiego pochodzenia mlody kompozytor z Loaznny. Esseiva eksperymentowalz dzwiekim w swoich wczesniejszych live actach grajac material na glosnikach roznej wielkosci i jakosci odseparowujac brzmienia na konsolecie wytwarzal kompozycje o niezwyklej przejzystosci i rozleglosci. Sous Les Etoiels to mix naturalnych instrumentow, halasow, ludzkich glosow umieszczonych na tle statycznych sonicznych plaszczyzn tworzacych abstrakcyjne surrealistyczne kolaze. Kompozycje odzwierciedlaja osnute mrokiem tajemne pracownie adeptow alchemii w trakcie zgrzytajacych i pomrukujacych magicznych procesow. Najbardziej lapidarne utwory to Quelque Party Sous Les Etoiles i En Reve. Oniryczny mroczny klimat intryguje ucho i pobudza wyobraznie zmuszajac do powrotu na druga strone zwierciadla do &. czarnosksieskiego swiata Sous Les Etoiles. (4/5)
 
   
  Octopus (F), Laurent Catala , May 2008
  
 
Pionnier de la musique industrielle et électroacoustique allemande avec son groupe P16.D4, Ralf Wehowsky n'a jamais cessé d'expérimenter et a Il y a quelque chose d'indéniablement attirant dans ce disque de Kiko C. Esseiva. Cette proximité avec la matière sonore, avec ces sources chaudes d'enregistrements saisis dans leurs craquements et autres agissements intimes, comme autant d'organismes captés au stéthoscope ("Voyage en brise-glace", "En rêve"), et évoquant presque les productions précieuses du label Komplott. Il y a aussi cette précision dans la projection sonore et dans le mixage qui rappelle l'un des maîtres probables de ce jeune compositeur helveto-espagnol, à savoir Luc Ferrari. Un mélange de dramaturgie alambiquée et de naïveté concrète qui interpelle par sa gouaille électronique et caustique, à l'évidence totalement décalée mais irrésistiblement prenante. Un sens du détail qui s'insinue insidieusement, jusqu'à devenir poignant à travers le mélange tourbillonnant d'instruments, de bruits abscons et de drones vocales, qui flirte aussi avec les abstractions narratives du Nurse With Wound des débuts, celui de Homotopy to Marie. "Prêt pour le grand plongeon ?" nous demande une voix au début de la pièce du même nom. Question bien inutile alors que l'on trempe déjà jusqu'au cou depuis plusieurs morceaux dans ce bain sonore énigmatique, et que les matériaux auxquels se rattraper pour reprendre son souffle se défilent à chaque mouvement d'oreille.
 
 
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  Musique Machine, Roger Batty, April 2008  
 
Kiko C. Esseiva is a composer with Swiss and Spanish roots who creates electro acoustic/Musique concrete sound pieces, which are best described as a more conventionally music based version of early Nurse with Wound's work. With a more playful less sinister 'n' surreal vibe to them too, Sous Les Etoiles is his third album and first for relatively new experimental label Hinterzimmer. The tracks use often a harmonic base of droning, sawed or picked string work, looped and effect peddle fed rhythmic elements, piano and slight synth textures. To which's he lays moulds and twists on all manner of multi-lingual texts, monk chants and vocalising. Along with street noise, scissor snips, apple crunchers, creeks 'n' groans, water sounds and all manner of self made and environmental sound. On the whole it's an enjoyable, quirky and a surrealistic cinematic ride though on the downside many of the sounds and way there used have been used many times before by others. I think this is at it's best when Esseiva is concentrating more on the harmonic and drone elements of the tracks and less on the sound elements which just feel at times too clichéd for there own good. I'll certainly be interested to hearing Esseiva future work as when he wants to he can conjure up some dramatic musical & sound lined pieces which create memorable and strange sonic worlds. He just needs to dump of lot of the clichéd over used sound source recordings found on Sous Les Etoiles and I'm sure he'll have the makings of something rather special. 3/5 		 
 
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  D-Side (F), Jean-François Micard, May 2008  
 
Pionnier de la musique industrielle et électroacoustique allemande avec son groupe P16.D4, Ralf Wehowsky n'a jamais cessé d'expérimenter et a entrepris, depuis le début des années 90, une carrière fructueuse sous l'identité de RLW. Pour son nouveau projet, consacré à la nourriture, et plus spécifiquement au repas (Mahlzeit signifiant simplement repas), il a collaboré avec le collectif Transindustrial Toy Orchestra (TITO), qui a enregistré quantité de sons à partir d'objets de cuisine qui ont ensuite été retravaillées, soit par eux, soit par RLW, créant une sorte de repas déglingué où, conversations comprises, rien de ce qui se passe sur et autour de la table n'est vraiment normal. Avec un même goût pour la musique électroacoustique, le Suisse Kiko C. Esseiva compose pour sa part des pièces où les instruments traditionnels et la voix, en français la plupart du temps, s'allient à des field recordings et des passages bruitistes pour créer une masse dense et complex. Souvent proche d'un Nurse With Wound, par ses aspects narratifs, Sous Les Etoiles est un excellent album, à la fois crispant, ludique et terrible.
 
 
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  Blow Up issue 120, Massimiliano Busti, May 2008
  
 
Nonostante Kiko C. Esseiva sia un giovane autore che ha all'attivo solo album pubblicato nel 2004 da Manufracture ('Musique Pour Haut-Parleurs'), questo suo recente lavoro mostra già una sorprendente maturità nell'arte di elaborare ed assemblare i suoni in forma di coinvolgenti composizioni di musica concreta. Le suggestioni ereditate dei maestri del genere (da Luc Ferrari a Lionel Marchetti) vengono rielaborate secondo una sensibilità del tutto personale che privilegia gli elementi narrativi ed un spiccato cromatismo. I brani rivelano una notevole solennità nel modulare frammenti di archi e rumori d'ambiente (Le Grand Plongeon), mostrando un 'anima complessa che è specchio di un processo creativo profondamente meditato. Alcuni passaggi basati sulla reiterazione ciclica e sulla progressiva rarefazione del suono posiedono inaspettate capacità ipnotiche (Sous Les Etoiles Toujours) e tutto l'album scorre con estrema fluidità grazie al senso melodico/armonico che si annida fra le sue complesse strutture. (7/8)
 
 
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  Bad Alchemy (D), Rigobert Digmann, May 2008
  
 
Sous Les Etoiles (HINT04) ist nach Musiques pour haut-parleurs (Music For Loudspeakers) und Improvisations / Bricolages I-IV im Split mit Eric Boros (1000+1 Tilt) eine weitere Manifestation der Kreativität von KIKO C. ESSEIVA in Lausanne. Es ist ein komplexes Werk, in Szene gesetzt als experimentelles Cinema pour l'oreille, mit einem 'Prélude', 8 Episoden und einer 'Fanfare de fin'. Hervorstechend ist dabei die Plastizität der Klänge, ob knackiger Apfelbiss, knurrige Drones oder windspielerisches Klimpern. Das erinnert an Hanna Hartmanns Bildprägnanz, geht aber eigene, geräuschhaftere Wege. Ein weiteres auffälliges Ingredienz sind Stimmen, als gutturale Vokalisation, dann ein Frauenmund, der den Titel ansagt. Aber auch andere Klänge scheinen per Mund erzeugt zu sein, wenn auch verfremdet bis zur Unkenntlichkeit zu perkussivem Rippeln, zu Knarren oder Fauchen. 'En rêve' wirkt wie alte Streichmusik, wobei der Geigenbogen jede Rauheit der Saite übertrieben ausreizt. Aus vielen Fugen flattert, knarrt und knarzt es, ein Metalldeckel eiert, Wasser gluckert, Dulcimersaiten flickern. Keine Landschaft tut sich auf, alles ist hier konkreter, detaillierter, informeller, in plastischer Nahsicht vor das Tagtraumauge gerückt. 'Sous les étoiles toujours' überrascht mit einem Piano, dumpfen Glockendongs, wooshenden Drones, fragilem Klingklang. Zum Finale erklingt keine Fanfare, sondern kaskadierendes Tamtam, Cymbalschläge, Scherenschnippen, eine quäkende Hupe, Posaunengeblubber, alles Teil eines surrealen Orchesters der Dinge. Ich drücke gleich mal auf repeat.
 
 
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  The Sound Projector, Ed Pinsent, April 2008
  
 
Hinterzimmer Records is also the home to Herpes Ö Deluxe, a strange Swiss combo whose retrospective CD we reviewed in issue 16. Kiko C. Esseiva has recorded Sous Les Etoiles (HINT 04) for the label, and a true puzzler it is too; more sound-art than music, it's a dense construct of strange scraping noises, eerie voice and spoken word passages, and uncanny distant blarts that might as well be made by some distant mythological horseman blowing into a conch. The quasi-poetic titles involve stars, fanfares, water, dancing and travels, and the 'En Rêve' track, for me, confirms Esseiva as a born-again follower of Max Ernst. The sleeve is gorgeous, clever collages and decorative overprintings on a brown card gatefold jacket, plus a full-colour insert displaying four surreal artwork-assemblages. Label-mate Reto Mäder, who also records as RM74 and compiled said Herpes CD, did the mastering for this spooky weird dreamscaper. 		 
 
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  tiltrecordings.org (Greece)  
 
Kiko's compositions are based on sounds. Be it from instruments that he uses or from sounds from a door cringing open, water, or scissors or from voices and spoken word. Regardless of their source, sounds are elaborately and expertly layed out, or upon one other, constructing rich and meningfull compositions. And this is what makes kiko esseiva's works so distinctive: although their source material could fall in the category of field recording, what comes out is compositions, with specific paths and destinations. The soundscapes he creates are composite and rich, inviting the listener to follow different tracks. Like in his previous cd (musiques pour hautes parleurs) musique concrete seems a major influence, but here he expands his ideas and themes further. A vey fine release, with new things to be discovered after every listening. 		 
 
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  Vital Weekly 620, Frans De Waard, March 2008  
 
At the end of last year I reviewed a CDR releases on Tilt Recordings by Eric Boros and Kiko C. Esseiva. The latter was unknown to me and played piano on that release. I never heard his first release, 'Musiques Pour Haut-parleurs', but here's his second solo release 'Sous Les Etoiles'. Not limited to playing the piano, in fact hardly at all, this is a release to combine acoustic instruments, noise, voices, field recordings and 'static sheets of sound'. Hinterzimmer compares it to the likes of Luc Ferrari and older Nurse With Wound, which indeed make two great places to start investigating this album. Hard to describe this melting pot of krautrock (without any drumming that is), musique concrete, improvisation and electronic music. As a whole it's a much more coherent work than the RLW & Tito release, moving around in all sorts of strangely textured sounds and odd shaped compositions. It doesn't always have the vivid imagination of Steve Stapleton, but then it's rapid changing sounds, musique concrete like cutting and pasting of sounds, all in a non academic fashion is quite nice. Maybe some of the pieces could have used a bit more rigorous editing, but throughout it's nice. 		 
 
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  Playlist in Musikpassagen on WDR 3/ Westdeutscher Rundfunk (GER), 5.8.2008
"Mon âme est un paysage choisi" - Seelenlandschaften
1. Dominic Cravic et les Primitifs Du Futur - Je Cherche Après Titine (Harmonia Mundi)
2. Richard Leo Johnson & Gregg Bendian - Looking for Vernon (Cuneiform)
3. Yves Rousseau Quartet feat. Claudia Solal - Le Mannequin (Le Chant du Monde)
4. Bill Frisell - Question (Nonesuch)
5. Kiko C. Esseiva - Prélude (Hinterzimmer)
6. Fred Hersch - Whoever You Are Holding Me Now In Hand (Palmetto)
7. Richard Leo Johnson & Gregg Bendian - Where The River Meets The Hills (Cuneiform)
8. T.10 (M. Ladd, Pamela Z) 0:30
9. Mike Ladd & Pamela Z - Fox ZnZ Friends (Savoy Jazz)
10. João Bosco - Prêt-à-porter de Tafetà (Wrasse)
11. Champion Jack Dupree - Two Below Zero (SPV/Blue Label)
12. Richard Leo Johnson & Gregg Bendian - Swap Meet Sunday (Cuneiform)
13. Piri Thomas - Puerto Rican Identity/I'm Tough/El Miedo (American Clavé)
14. Kiko C. Esseiva - Prélude (Hinterzimmer)
  
     
  Playlist in MUMA on Radio Dreyeckland Freiburg (GER), 28.7.2008
1. Kiko C. Esseiva - Prélude (Hinterzimmer)
2. Elsa Justel - Mâts (Empreintes Digitales)
3. John R. Carlson - Gone And Went in November (Parovart)
4. John R. Carlson - Interview
5. Neubau - Den Inre Solvaenda (Nonine)
6. Neubau - rymdmyr (Nonine)
7. Pure Sound - Moody Bastad Out Drinking (Euphonium)
 
     
  Playlist in Comu on Radio Dreyeckland Freiburg (GER), 28.7.2008
1. Pure Sound - My Wife Dosent Understand Me (Euphonium)
2. Pure Sound - Breath Deep, My Love (Euphonium)
3. Pure Sound - Square Thing (Euphonium)
4. Pure Sound - submarine - submarine - euphonium
5. Pure Sound - The Legend Of Sam Magee of sam magee (Euphonium)
6. Pure Sound - To You, My Dearest (Euphonium)
7. Louis Dufort - Grain De Sable (Empreintes Digitales)
8. Elsa Justel - Gwertz (Empreintes Digitales)
9. Gilles Gobeil - Ombres, Espaces, Silences (Empreintes Digitales)
10. Davor Mikan - Animal (Crónica)
11. John Young - Arrivederci (Empreintes Digitales)
12. Louis Dufort - Matério_3 (Empreintes Digitales)
13. Kiko C. Esseiva - Voyage En Brise-Glace (Hinterzimmer)
14. Martin Leclerc - L´Odyssée (Empreintes Digitales)
15. Martin Leclerc - Oi´ce pour petites orielles (Empreintes Digitales)
16. Kiko C. Esseiva - Sousous les étouiles toujours (Hinterzimmer)
17. Elsa Justel - Mâts (Empreintes Digitales)
 
     
  Playlist on NOW Jazz in SWR2/ Südwestrundfunk (GER), 27.6.2008
1. People Like Us - Whithers In The Whist (Plurgo)
2. People Like Us - Dancing In The Carmen (Plurgo)
3. Kiko C. Esseiva - Quelque Part Sous Les Etoiles (Hinterzimmer)
4. Einstürzende Neubauten - I Kissed Glenn Gould (Potomac)
5. Einstürzende Neubauten Vicki (Potomac)
6. Einstürzende Neubauten - Epharisto (Potomac)
7. Einstürzende Neubauten - Magyar Energia (Potomac)
8. Einstürzende Neubauten - Die Libellen (Potomac)
9. Einstürzende Neubauten - Jeder Satz mit ihr hallt nach (Potomac)
10. Alva Noto - U (Raster-Norton)
11. Sonargemeinschaft - All Aboard (Poise Edition)
12. Thomas Christoph Heyde - 3 x Short - 3 x Long (Digital)
13. Nicolas Bernier - Piano (No Type)
14. Einstürzende Neubauten - Ich komme davon (Potomac)
 
     
  Playlist in Syrovych on Radio 1 Prague (CZ), 13.6.2008
1. Bill Dixon - Entrances (Thrill Jockey)
2. Kiko C. Esseiva - En Rêve (Hinterzimmer)
3. Kiko C. Esseiva - Le Grand Plongeon (Hinterzimmer)
4. RLW + TITO - Dode Varkens En Mooie Moraal (Hinterzimmer)
5. RLW + TITO - Hin (Hinterzimmer)
6. Gunnlaug Thorvaldsdottir - Circulation (Sonic Arts Network)
7. Martyn Jacques - The Pedophile In The Park (Sonic Arts Network)
8. Yasushi Yoshida - Permanent Yesterday (Noble)
9. Yasushi Yoshida - Greyed (Noble)
10. Philip Jeck - Chime Again (Touch)
11. Philip Jeck - Fanfares Over (Touch)
 
     
  Playlist in Nachtsession on Bayerischer Rundfunk/Bayern 2 Radio (GER), 13.6.2008
1. T-Bone Burnette - Anything I Say Can and Will Be Used Against You (Nonesuch)
2. T-Bone Burnette - Here Come the Philistines (Nonesuch)
3. T-Bone Burnette - The Rat Age (Nonesuch)
4. Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog - Break on Through (Enja)
5. Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog - Midost (Enja)
6. Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog - For Malena (Enja)
7. Firewater - A Place Not So Unkind (Nois-o-lution)
8. Kiko C. Esseiva: Quelque Part Sous Les Etoiles - (Hinterzimmer)
9. Kangding Ray - Apnée. Part II - (Raster_Norton)
10. Einstürzende Neubauten - I Kissed Glenn Gould (Potomac)
11. Einstürzende Neubauten - Vicki (Potomac)
12. Einstürzende Neubauten - Magyar Energia (Potomac)
13. Einstürzende Neubauten - Die Libellen (Potomac)
14. Einstürzende Neubauten - Ich Komme Davon (Potomac)
15. Doug Wimbish - Broadcasting (Enja)
16. Cassandra Wilson - Dust My Broom (Blue Note)
17. Alexander Tucker - Florence Blue (ATP)
18. Alexander Tucker - Omnibaron (ATP)
19. Dub Trio - Not For Nothing (Ipecac)
29. Bill Frisell - Struggle Part 2 (Nonesuch)
21. Scorch Trio - HysBrolt (Rune Grammofon)
22. Animal Collective - Street Flash (Domino)
23. Tindersticks - Yesterday Tomorrows (Beggars Banquet)
24. Spring Heel Jack - Dereks (Thirsty Ear)		  
     
  Playlist in Radiophon on SWR 2/ Südwestrundfunk (GER), 10.6.2008
1. Spring Heel Jack - Garlands (Thirsty Ear)
2. Andrew Lewis - Danses Acousmatiques (Empreintes Digitales)
3. Saule - Olé (Sub Rosa)
4. Einstürzende Neubauten - 26 Riesen (Potomac)
5. Kiko C. Esseiva - Danse de Toupilles ( Hinterzimmer)
6. Kronos Quartet - Holy Dread (Nonesuch)
7. Kiko C. Esseiva - Voyage en Brise-Glace (Hinterzimmer)
8. Angelo Badalamenti - The Rose and the Daydream (Silva Screen)
9. Andrew Lewis - Llanddwyn Skies (Empreintes Digitales)
10. The Notwist - Where In This World (City Slang)
11. T-Bone Burnette - Telepresence (Nonesuch)
12. Kronos Quartet - Tree Of Life (Nonesuch)
13. Buckethead - Plans Within Plans (ION)
14. Kiko C. Esseiva - Le Grand Plongeon ( Hinterzimmer)
15. Bill Frisell - Question (Nonesuch)
16. Michael Fahres - Sevan (Cold Blue)
17. Kiko C. Esseiva - Quelque Part Sous Les (Hinterzimmer)
18. Chris Mann - I've Heard That One (Sonic Arts Network)
19. Kiko C. Esseiva - Tout Tourne (Hinterzimmer)
20. Andrew Lewis - Penmon Point (Empreintes Digitales)
21. Badawi - Etheric Uprise (Asphodel)
22. Diamanda Galas - Heaven Have Mercy (Mute)
23. Kiko C. Esseiva - Fanfare de Fin (Hinterzimmer)
24. Sawako - Deep Under (12K Records)
25. Badawi - Enter The Etherics (ROIR)
26. COH & Cosey - Closer (Raster Norton)
27. Angelo Badalamenti - Flashback Memories (Silva Screen)
28. Nick Cave - Night of the Lotus Eaters (Mute)
29. Bill Frisell - Tony (Nonesuch)		  
     
  Playlist in Battiti on RAI 3 (I), 3.6.2008
1. Lucille Bogan - Pot Hound Blues (Sub Rosa)
2. Son Of Dave - Old Times Were Good Times (Kartel)
3. El Topo - Tosca (Off)
4. Vetiver - Hook & Ladder (Fat Cat)
5. Brael/Tokyo Bloodworm - Blue Fields (Moteer)
6. He Can Jog - Agnes (Audiobulb)
7. Mou, Lips! - Still Life(s) Live (and/OAR MOAR)
8. Kiko C. Esseiva - Le Grand Plongeon (Hinterzimmer)
9. Kiko C. Esseiva - En Rêve (Hinterzimmer)
10. Mou, Lips! - Air Ain't Misused (and/OAR MOAR)
11. He Can Jog - Pan-Fried Fern (Audiobulb)
12. Brael/Tokyo Bloodworm - Seed (Moteer)
13. Contortions - Flip Your Face (Lilith)
14. Teenage Jesus And The Jerks - Red Alert (Lilith)
15. DNA - Egomaniac's Kiss (Lilith)
 
     
  Playlist in Tapage Nocturne on France Musique (F), 23.4.2008
1. Kiko C. Esseiva - Voyage En Brise-Glace (Hinterzimmer)
"Kiko C. Esseiva est un musicien électroacoustique basé à Lausanne et le label Hinterzimmer fait aujourd'hui paraitre son deuxième album. Une suite de dix pièces sonores d'une extrême clarté ou les sons s'unissent et se désunissent avec un sens du rythme et un tel naturel que l'on peut croire entendre ci et là quelques mélodies. Un album qui dispose des qualités nécessaires pour charmer les amateurs les plus exigeants de musiques électroacoustiques dans la lignée de Luc Ferrari et qui séduira les plus réfractaires leur ouvrant les porte d'un nouvel univers sonore." (Eric Serva)

2. Tape - Dripstone (Häpna)
3. David Karsten - Falling Down (Fat Cat)
  
     
  Playlist in Avaruusromua on YLE Radio 1 (FIN), 25.5.2008
1. Verneri Pohjola & Joonas Riippa - Maltodextrin High + Industrial Fry
2. Aki Rissanen - La Lumiere Noire / Gefunden
3. Mikko Innanen - I Have A Dream Bubbling Under
4. Kiko C. Esseiva - Quelque Part Sous Les Etoiles
5. Beehatch - Tis + God Is So Good, God Is So Dub
6. BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa - Scandinavian Tourist 		 
     
  Playlist in Oltre In Confine (Mauro Teho Teardo's Radio Show on) Radio Rai 1 Regionale (I), 7.4.2008
1. Piero Milesi - Modi 2 (Cuneiform)
2. Kiko C. Esseiva - Voyage En Brise-Glace (Hinterzimmer)
3. Kiko C. esseiva - En Rêve (Hinterzimmer)
4. Kiko C. Esseiva - Pont (Hinterzimmer)
5. Portishead - Nylon Smile (Island)
6. Portishead - Silence (Island)
7. Nicholas Schoffer - Lespace multimedia gantner (Mediathéque Départementale)
8. RLW & TITO - Vertering (Hinterzimmer)
9. RLW & TITO - HaHa Super Specialiteiten (Hinterzimmer)
10. RLW & TITO - Hin (Hinterzimmer)
 
     
  Playlist in Concept muSICK Radio Dreyeckland Freiburg (GER), 102.3 FM, 26.4.2008
1. Gilles Gobeil - Ombres, Espases, Silences (Empreintes Digitales)
2. Martin Leclerc - Et la ca (Empreintes Digitales)
3. Elsa Justel - Gwerz (Empreintes Digitales)
4. Louis Dufort - Hi Res (Empreintes Digitales)
5. Elsa Justel - Du libe tu? (Empreintes Digitales)
6. John Young - Arrivederci (Empreintes Digitales)
7. Kiko c. Esseiva - Voyage En Brise-Glace (Hinterzimmer)
8. Gilles Gobeil - Le Miroir Triste (Empreintes Digitales ) 		 
     
  Playlist in La Noche Inventada on Scanner FM (E), 17.4.2008
1. Steve Reich - I Saw A Dream
2. Autechre - The PLC
3. Rioji Ikeda - Test Pattern#0100
4. COH - Near You
5. Housemeister - Hallo Lieblingsmensch
6. Tadeo - Cincurbalation
7. Daedalus - Touchtone
8. Philip Jeck - Fanfares
9. Kiko C. Esseiva - Fanfare De Fin
10. Willits & Sakamoto - Chi-Yu
11. Tupolev - Nothing's Gonna Happen
12. Yasushi Yoshida - Greyeed
13. Acid Mother's Temple - Dalai Lama
 
     
  Playlist in Electromania on France Musique (F), 17.4.2008
1. Patrick Portella - Matjapat Song
2. Tangtype - Blank, Lackluster Eyes
3. Szkieve - Le songe de R.E.A.
4. Kiko C. Esseiva - Voyage En Brise-Glace
5. Alexei Borisov & Anton Nikkila - Engineer Strepetov's Curve
6. Machinefabriek - Found In Translation
7. Philip Jeck - Hindquarters
8. Yoshio Machida - Camouflage
9. Elsa Justel - Gwerz
10. Zavoloka - Plavyna
 
     
  Playlist in MUMA Radio Dreyeckland Freiburg (GER), 102.3 FM, 8.4.2008
1. Kiko C. Esseiva - Danse Des Toupilles (Hinterzimmer)
2. Yoshio Machida - Camouflage (Hinterzimmer)
3. Louis Dufort - Hi_Res (Empreintes Digitales)
4. Louis Dufort - Interview
5. Yoshio Machida - Silhouette (Baskaru)
6. Lullatone - The Bathtime Beat (Someone Good)
7. The Rational Academy - 2004 (Someone Good) 		 
     
  Playlist in Concept muSICK Radio Dreyeckland Freiburg (GER), 102.3 FM, 8.4.2008
1. Brandon Labelle & James Webb - Foyer (Room 40)
2. Kiko C. Esseiva - Prélude (Hinterzimmer)
3. Louis Dufort - Mmaterio_1 (Empreintes Digitales)
4. ErikM - 7 (Room 40)
5. @c - 61 (Crónica)
6. @c - interview
7. Louis Dufort - Materio_2 (Empreintes Digitales)
8. Louis Dufort - Materio_3 (Empreintes Digitales) 		 
     
  Playlist on Resonance 104.4 FM "The Sound Projector radio show" by Ed Pinsent, 28.3.2008
1. Smegma - Porky Section (Harbinger Sound)
2. The Weird Weeds - Lies (Autobus)
3. Blue Gene Tyranny - Next Time Might Be Your Time (Unseen Worlds)
4. Philiph Jeck - Fanfares (Touch)
5. Olekranon - Necropolis (INAM)
6. Kiko C. Esseiva - En Rève (Hinterzimmer)
7. Korperschwache - Fear Of A Black Metal Moustache (INAM)
8. C. Joynes - Night On Djerba (Weavel)
9. Lanterns - Bruised Loser For Lips (Screeching Snowflake)
10. Dale W. Miller & Tony Gordon - Track 6 (Old Gold)
11. Pure Sound - Dialect Poetry (Euphonium)
12. Yoshio Machida - Retrospective Future (Baskaru Karu)
13. Martin Archer - Spun Sugar Barbed Wire (Discus)
14. Dirac C. - Rise And Fall (INAM)
15. Aranos - Saw Women's Rising Fry (Soleilmoon)
16. RLW & TITO - Geschissen ist nicht gemalt (Hinterzimmer)
17. Rothkamm - Encounter With Remarkable Trees (Rothkamm)
18. Alan Licht/Aki Onda - Ship Shape (Family Vineyard)
 
     
  Playlist in MUMA Radio Dreyeckland Freiburg (GER), 102.3 FM, 28.3.2008
1. RLW & TITO - Gabentisch Grossstadt (Hinterzimmer)
2. Herpes Ö DeLuxe - Fern Der Hoffnung (Hinterzimmer)
3. Kiko C. Esseiva - Quelque Part Sous Les Etoiles (Hinterzimmer)
4. Yoshio Machida - Scene 5 (Baskaru)
5. Chris Abrahams / Mike Cooper - Oeanic Feeling-like Part Two (Room40)
6. Louis Dufort - Materio 1 (Empreintes Digitales)
7. Pure Sound - Moody Bastard Out Drinking (Euphonium)
8. Pure Sound - To You My Dearest (Euphonium)
9. Pure Sound - Breath Deep, My Love (Euphonium)
10. Pure Sound - Dialect Poetry (Euphonium)
11. Pure Sound - Square Thing (Euphonium)
  
     
  Playlist in MUMA Radio Dreyeckland Freiburg (GER), 102.3 FM, 8.3.2008
1. RLW & TITO - Fressen vergessen (Hinterzimmer)
2. Kiko C. Esseiva - Voyage En Brise-Glace (Hinterzimmer)
3. Chris Abrahams / Mike cooper - Oceanic Feeling-Like Part One (Room40)
4. Chris Abrahams / Mike Cooper - Memory Of Water (Room40)
5. The Rational Academy - A Heart Against Your Own (Someone Good)
6. Ljudbilden & Piloten - Arms And Legs Together (Norsondo)
7. Lullatone - Oyasumi (Someone Good)
8. Pure Sound - The Pull Out From Hong Kong (Euphonium)		  
 
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