Pavel - Environment (vinyl)

5 years after his debut album "Busy Being Broken", Pavel returns in 2024 with a new LP, this time dealing with the theme of the natural environment, host to all life on Earth.

"Environment" is a concept album based on samples recorded by the artist over several months throughout Switzerland. Rockfalls, lapping lake shores, crackling glaciers, winds piercing fir trees, the massive hum of a waterfall, clashing icicles, cave seepage and more. In a way, these audio recordings are Pavel's inventory of fixtures, which he then uses as a starting point to construct eight tracks faithful to his style: a distorded, elegant, melancholic and wickedly dramatic electronica.

For Pavel, "the pessimism of reason compels the optimism of will". This maxim, taken from Antonio Gramsci's "Cahiers de prison", sums up the essential message of the album.

Credits

All songs written, produced and mixed by Etienne Bel
Additional mix on “Sell me a promise” and “Tourbières” by Josué Salomon
Lyrics and vocals on “Sell me a promise” by Marie Hoffman, on “Tourbières” by Mathieu Palomo
“Desolate apostles” co-produced by Arthur Henry
All song mastered by Marco Zenker at Tangible Air, Munich
Artwork design by Lila Thiébaud
Vinyl layout design by Nathan Jucker
Vinyl creation and production by Grand Voyage
Executive production by Etienne Bel

Kindly supported by: Service de la culture du canton de Neuchâtel & Loterie Romande

Label: Blizzard Audio Club
CAT: BAC027