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Pr​é​sence Absente

by Saåad

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Présence Absente is Saåad's third release with Hands in the Dark, after Orbs & Channels back in 2013 and Deep/Float the following year.

Based on the French duo’s 2017 live setup and improvised sets, this new album is the quintessence of their music: raw, deep, murky, fascinating. The band's sound and experimental songwriting have matured over the course of their albums, and with this new offering we feel that they have truly blossomed both in form and in content.

Their brand of experimental drone takes on a new, distinct shape and, in the space of 38 musical minutes, sends out a message in a bottle to our western world, a foreboding message of the communication breakdown and the effacement of our personal identities that we find ourselves living through as a generation. But it is also an ode to nature with tones of hope, a desire to share and to return to basics, before it's too late. It all makes for an arresting listening experience.

Présence Absente is a delicate, personal album which marks a major turning point in the pair's substantial discography.

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released April 13, 2018

Cat #: HITD 039

All tracks composed, performed & recorded by Romain Barbot & Gregory Buffier
Mixing by Aurélien Prévost
Mastering by James Plotkin
Mastercut by Mike Grinser @ Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin
Collages by Morgan Cuinet
Layout & graphic design by Romain Barbot

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Hands In The Dark France

Hands In The Dark is an independent micro-record label based in Besançon (East France) which, since 2010, has focused on proposing exciting auditory explorations and singular visions of experimental and avant-garde music.

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