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Tunnels

by Spor Tranquil

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1.
Au bord du grand lac de Clairvaux-Les-Lacs, les foulques macroules se baignent et nagent. La plage est déserte, il y a trois pêcheurs dans leurs barques. Les campings sont vides. --------------------------------------------------------- At the edge of the great Lake Clairvaux-Les-Lacs, coots cove bath and swim. The beach is deserted, there are three fishermen in their boats. Campsites are empty.
2.
Oberlin 03:16
On boit deux bières et on va en voiture à Oberlin voir Emeralds. Les plaines de l’Ohio sont blanches. Au retour, on écoute le premier album de Tortoise. ------------------------------------------------- We drink two beers and drive to Oberlin to see Emeralds. The plains of Ohio are white. When we return, we listen to Tortoise's first album.
3.
Port-Launay 03:37
Quand on va à Douarnenez en venant de Brest, on passe par Port-Launay et la route longe le canal. On arrive ensuite à Chateaulin, ce qui présage de la fin du voyage. Je regarderais les voitures passer à Port-Launay. ------------------------------------------------- When you go to Douarnenez coming from Brest, you go through Port-Launay and the road runs along the canal. Then we arrive in Chateaulin, which presages the end of the trip. I would watch the cars go to Port Launay.
4.
La forme prise par sa bouche me rappelle les lèvres d’Aude, derrière la mairie des Hauts-De-Bienne. --------------------------------------------------- The shape taken by his mouth reminds me of Aude's lips, behind the Hauts-De-Bienne town hall.
5.
K-L 04:24
Je laisse ma valise dans un casier de la gare centrale de Kuala-Lumpur mais pas mon ordinateur que je trimballe toute l’après-midi. Il fait si chaud et humide. -------------------------------------------------- I leave my suitcase in a locker at Kuala Lumpur Central Station but not my computer that I lug around all afternoon. It is so hot and humid.
6.
Le restaurant de l’hôtel Aquakub à Aix-Les-Bains est situé au dernier étage. Il comporte plusieurs tableaux de figuration abstraite, d’un certain goût. On se dit en plaisantant qu’on reviendra à Aix-Les-Bains juste pour les voir. -------------------------------------------------- The Aquakub Hotel's restaurant in Aix-Les-Bains is located on the top floor. It includes several abstract figurative paintings, of a certain taste. We jokingly say that we will come back to Aix-Les-Bains just to see them.
7.
Porta Susa 05:15
A côté de la gare horrible Torino Porta Susa, il y a un restaurant sur le Corso Bolzano qui s’appelle Ristorante Bolzano. Je n’ai pas pris de dessert, puis j’ai attendu une heure dans la gare. -------------------------------------------------- Not far from the ghastly Torino Porta Susa train station, there is a restaurant on Corso Bolzano called Ristorante Bolzano. I did not have dessert, and then waited an hour in the station.
8.
Live à La Cata -------------------------------------------------- Live at La Cata
9.
L'Obiou 03:19
Si on arrive assez tôt au lac de Laffrey, on peut avoir un bon spot sur les petites plages de cailloux. Il faut nager jusqu’au milieu du lac pour voir Chamrousse au nord et L’Obiou au sud. Je ne quitterai pas Grenoble avant d’avoir gravi la Grande Tête de l’Obiou. -------------------------------------------------- If you arrive early enough at Lake Laffrey, you can have a good spot on the small pebble beach. You need to swim to the middle of the lake to see Chamrousse to the north and L'Obiou to the south. I will not leave Grenoble before climbing the Great Obiou’s Head.

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This album comes with a little text for each song whose name is also a place, you can click on "lyrics" on the right of the song name to see and read the little story which goes along.

Some words from us on that work :

We are so proud to present this release of Spor Tranquil called Tunnels on Là-Haut Dans l’Océan !
This album responds to a very special request from the label made to Nicolas to provide a small series of pieces that would correspond to the soft aesthetics of the label. This is his most tender and most sensitive music ever produced.
Knowing personally Nicolas we knew that behind all his various aliases something fundamentally pure was at work, an original naivety, resulting from a singularly delicate relationship to the sound and which asked only to be expressed beyond the musical postures.
The result soon exceeded our expectations.
These few tracks are straightforward, they speak directly to the heart of the one who listens. They play without any prejudice of genre and sound to come truthfully nestle in the privacy of the listener. They radiate a buried, deep, clear, almost childish kindness. They specifically tell the story of their author. They are concrete places, moments of life, kind of a look at his whole destiny from out of time. They are unpretentious journeys; simplicity and beauty of a singular landscape. Those kind of landscape that make you feel glad for the past and confident for the future. Actually, these tracks are tunnels in time, annihilating the concepts of past, present and future.
And this is how we go through this album: as a tourist who takes tunnels without fear.

Yes definitely we care about this releases; to the point of making it the first physical release of the label.

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Nous sommes si fiers de vous présenter cette sortie de Spor Tranquil nommée Tunnels sur Là-haut dans l’Océan !
Cet album répond à une demande très spéciale du label faite à Nicolas de nous confectionner une petite série de morceaux qui correspondrait à l’esthétique douce du label. Ce sont ses réalisations les plus tendres et les plus sensibles jamais produites.
Connaissant personnellement Nicolas nous savions que derrière tous ses divers alias quelque chose de fondamentalement pur était à l’oeuvre, une naiveté originelle; issu d'un rapport singulièrement délicat au son et qui ne demandait qu’a être exprimé au delà des postures musicales.
Le résultat dépassait bientôt largement nos espérances.
Ces quelques pistes sont sans détour, elle parlent directement au coeur de celui qui les écoute. Elles jouent avec les a priori de genre et de sonorités pour venir se nicher sans triche dans l’intimité de l’auditeur. Elles rayonnent d’une gentillesse enfouie, profonde, claire, presque enfantine. Elles racontent leur auteur surtout, ce sont des lieux concrets, des moments de vie, une sorte de regard sur sa destinée toute entière. Ce sont des voyages sans prétentions où se jouent néanmoins la simplicité et la beauté d'un paysage singulier.
Le genre de paysage qui nous font nous sentir reconnaissant pour le passé et confiant dans l'avenir. En fait ces morceaux sont des tunnels dans le temps, qui annihilent les concepts de passé, présent et futur.
Et c’est ainsi qu'on parcourt cet album: en touriste qui emprunte des tunnels sans peur.

Oui décidément cette sortie nous tient à coeur, au point d’en faire la première sortie physique du label.

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released April 18, 2019

All tracks made by Nicolas Murer Alias Spor Tranquil
Art Work made by Nicolas too on a LilyCup drawing base

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Là-haut Dans L'Océan Grenoble, France

A Grenoble based ambient (and more) label, made out of a radio show.

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