Stephan Mathieu | Remain (LINE_047)

Stephan Mathieu | Remain (LINE_047)

CD + instant MP3 download
Edition of 500 

After 10 years of being a subsidiary of Taylor Deupree’s 12k label, Richard Chartier has taken the LINE imprint and has begun issuing releases under his own banner as well as re-issuing music that has been long out-of-print and virtually impossible to obtain as high quality Apple lossless files.

I actually had the honor of being the very first person to make an order at the online LINE website shop, to which, I received an email from Richard Chartier himself thanking me for doing so and he let me in on the next half-dozen releases due out on the label.

The first official release to see the light of day on the new LINE label is Stephan Mathieu Remain (LINE_047). It’s 60 minutes of beautiful, electroacoustic, droning sound that utilizes Janek Schaefer’s Extended Play (LINE_036) material, albeit in a reprocessed format that is absolutely stunning and mesmerizing. 

I liken Remain to an aural equivalent of Barnett Newman’s Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1950-51, which I had the pleasure of seeing firsthand at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City a few years ago. It is a warm, flowing release that wraps around you like water, and in which, you swim in the sound.

One thing I’d like to add about LINE is that when I received this package in the mail, included in it were two gorgeous postcards and a hand-written ‘thank you’ note from Richard Chartier himself. It’s little things like this that keep music aficionados like me loyal to the very end.

-CONJUR