专辑简介

Mekanik Kantatik is a living installation that evolves around a piano. The piano, set up electronically, is the raw material of the artist. Nicolas Cante, pianist and « human robot » uses all the components of his instrument (keyboard, cords, wood and iron) combined with modern technology (computers, sensors), to create, what is though electronic, a profoundly organic music. It is unknown whether the artist controls the machine or the machine controls the artist. The album is a collision of jazz, pop, techno and experimental music in a subtle and enlightened way. The singing and the instrument are acoustic or robotic, the sounds mechanical or organic. What results is a universe of deconstructions/reconstructions that have no other purpose then disturbing the courtiers of an architecture of straight lines and filled volumes. Mekanik Kantatik is a whimsical, out there and offbeat scientific project. Live, Mekanik Kantatik is a game of uncertainty, a sort of trash-sentimental, electro-acoustic cabaret. The music is created live solely by the sounds of the piano fed through the laptop, reinvented as if an orchestra and expelled back into the world. The sound’s work in real time intensifies the intimite and ambiguous relationship between the human and the electromecanic… the heart of the project The compositions recorded in the album form the basis of constant improvisation, of perpetual movement. The artist provokes the unknown to satisfy the desire of creating a true musical reality, giving out left and right beautiful sonic slaps and challenging the myth of the virtuoso artist. The end product is a concrete and dancefloor experience. The album was mixed and recorded by Dominique « Dume » POUTET aka Ostito 23 (Laurent de Wilde, Gaël Horellou, NHX, productions of the label DTC). « … Cante, an Aixois of some 32 years old who has been playing piano since he was very young, who has been making his living out of music since the age of 16, is mad about jazz (2000 Aix Conservatory graduate) and improvised music, but also techno and electro (he also mixes and rampages under the name of Nikoll). «I like John Cage, rock, Duke Ellington, clubbing, funk and Steve Reich… For sure, it’s a wide musical universe »