It must have been a challenge Boghossian put himself through as a guitarist and electronic musician to seamlessly conjoin them after working solo with guitar and computer since late 2000. The result we're listening to proves that the French composer is keen on the deep aspects of sound.
You know the feelings music is capable of moulding. Sometimes we are in a specific mood determined by concerns we have or situations we are part of and what we listen to reshapes out initial state of mind into a an entirely different one. Music doesn't necessarily insert emotions into our hearts, but it can easily open any secret drawer we either keep there locked and hidden or put a chain on all of them in order to send you straight into the sound.
Subtlety placing sound in the foreground of perception, Mouvements backdrops the factual reality, acting as mental stimulation. I picture these airy soundscapes as a repetitive image of dense blue water washing the shore of a crystal white sand beach. At times this captivating, almost still motion changes speed, going from giving the illusion of water having the texture of honey to a dazzling, glitched frame skipping image. There is nothing to think of besides questioning how such an artificial view seems to depict reality better than its natural version.
Now to get to the point, I am truly impressed by Hervé Boghossian's technique of beautifully ''altering'' guitar compositions to create this aura shifting album. I dare say that, the guitar as an instrument takes a whole lot more to have that special something nowadays than it did years and years ago and here it is sounding like nothing you would expect. Mouvements is more than a mixture of electronic and instrumental music since it fused the two into pure harmony.
Tracklist:
1. Mouvement A Érien2. Corrosion Sourde
3. Insolation Sonore
4. Étendue Blanche
5. Organe Ouvert
6. Champs Magnétique
7. Mémoire Cyclique
8. Vagues Statiques
9. Fin De Conversation
10. Mouvement Aé Rien