In Aeternam Vale ‎– Out Of Terror / Recovered Flesh [Cass] (1989, Organic Tapes)

 

There are bands that have been acting ruthlessly in the shadow for years, in a completely confidential manner, then one day chance makes you find one of their recordings, listen to it, and at that moment you could kick yourself for not having discovered these soundscapes earlier and you try to find all of them. That is exactly what happened to In Aeternam Vale, a strange name that will surely remind you of nothing in particular, and that is really a shame. At the basis of this band, a guy named Laurent Prot, a kind of equivalent to what Frank Tovey represented in England or Dirk Ivens in Belgium, an electronics fanatic who experimented all the sounds that you can obtain from analogical synthesizers and rhythm´n boxes.

The two tapes 'Recovered Flesh / Out of Terror' (1989) are in this same research for a music to dance to but very dark. There are even titles close to what we can call “dark ambient” (“She Said”), nightmarish soundscapes foreshadowing the Cold Meat Industry style, but the essential things to remember from this period are the collaborations with the female singer Chrystelle Marin and her astonishing voice recalling nocturnal goddesses such as the early Siouxsie or the sensual Mona Soyoc from Kas Product. Laurent Prot went on recording tapes in the 1990´s, going from trance-techno to ambient and now to house music, but with still a lot of analogical sounds. [SOURCE: MINIMAL WAVE RECORDS]

 

Label: Organic Tapes ‎– OT.030 
Format: 2 × Cassette, Double Cassette In Vhs Box 
Country: France 
Released: 1989 
Style: Minimal
 
Tracklist:
A1 Car And Girl 
A2 La Pendule 
A3 Wounded Heart 
A4 Diesel 
A5 Eat Your Brain 
A6 Discomobil 
B1 Daygloo 
B2 Wounded Heart 2 
B3 Art U.S. 
B4 J'ai Raté 
A1 Autown 
A2 Money For Fall 
A3 On Your Back 
A4 Several Times 
A5 Bad News Today 
A6 D. For Fun 
A7 Untitled 
B1 Good Day Dance 
B2 On Strike 
B3 She Said 
B4 Hit The Ground
 
Notes:
Recorded home in summer 1988.
 
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