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    MouthWind is the duo of singer Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg and Lawrence Casserley, live signal processing. Lawrence is processing the sound of the voice of J-M VS in real time.

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Bouche ''P'' 00:59
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Mond ''M'' 01:28
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Rode Tijger 04:56
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Mouth Wind 09:53

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MouthWind is the collective project of Lawrence Casserley, live signal processing and Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, voice. Label Heyermears Hermes. Coproduced by Jozef Cseres.

"Mouth Wind is a happy pairing of Casserley's signal processing with the idiosyncratic vocals of Belgium's Jean-Michel van Schouwburg, a pairing which benefits both of them greatly. The end results have to be credited equally to both participants as, by turns, Casserley makes the singer sound like a wild beast roaring or snoring, a human in the throes of agony or ecstasy, a variety of cartoon characters, a deranged opera singer or a pod of dolphins communicating. True, many of those sounds are present in the singer's normal (untreated) repertoire, but here Casserley does not distort them; instead, he tweaks them to make them more themselves, a subtle but important difference. If electronics can dehumanize music in some contexts, the opposite is true here; the electronics serve to emphasize the all-too-apparent humanity of Van Schouwburg's voice". John Eyles / "All About Jazz"
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''Listening as I write. Love it ! Coherent, tough, minimalist, great richness withing a wilfully limited common language. Sole sound source, JMVS’s buccal cavity, which morphs into a multiform spatial field thanks to Lawrence Casserley’s brilliant double role, situated in a constantly shifting way between extension of the voice and antagonistic gestures. Without ever giving in to the temptation of unnecessary washes.Thus, the voice keeps its humanity, fragility and fascination as an organ of communication, while at the same time becoming a machine. What a redefinition of the idea of partnership! There is not yet a word for a formation that navigates between duo and augmented solo … even for that quality alone, this album already deserves the status of non-genre “classic”.''

Steve Gibbs, classical and contemporay musics guitarist , musicologist, concert performer and improviser. Specialist of JF Bach, Haydn, Schönberg musics which he is transcribing for seven & eight strings guitar.

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released January 13, 2018

Lawrence Casserley live signal processing ; Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg voice. Recording, Edition, Mixing and Mastering by Lawrence Casserley in May 2010. Chiltern Hills. Hermes Eye&Ear Jozef Cseres.

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Jean - Michel Van Schouwburg Braine L'Alleud, Belgium

Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg Born 1955. Belgium. Self-taught vocal improviser. Invented his own Phonoetry and vocal techninques, mouthroat cheekteethlipstong. Has performed and recorded with Jean Demey & Kris Vanderstraeten (Sureau), John Russell, Lawrence Casserley (MouthWind), Sabu Toyozumi, Marcello Magliocchi & Matthias Boss, Adam Bohman Zsolt Sörès,Oli Mayne,Yoko Miura, Paul Dunmall Phil Gibbs ... more

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