"...once again the listener is taken on the kind of journey that usually only appears in dreams."
FREQ Magazine / UK
freq.org.uk/reviews/philippe-petit-modulisme-2-year/
"... Philippe Petit, in his quality of sound artist, should be thoroughly treasured."
THE MILK FACTORY / UK
There is not much that can prepare you for the extraordinary skills of Petit, this was a performance I hadn’t seen the likes of before. The first set started with Petit on his computer producing an electro grinding swell sustained by beats in the background producing a rising pulse of sound. This moves swiftly into a slither of a noise that then slipped up and down scales moving into sliding scales. All the while the background is haunted – implying a kind of buried sound giving weight to the strength of the slippery electronics. Because of this layering, notes were free to waver from their source, as if they would leap at freedom and scramble to find their place on the register again. At times the sound was underwater, as if the listener is in a submarine or a submerged experience. Sonic and potent. Music that can be felt. The swell rises like a bubble that burst through to a loud, phantasmagorical bubble burst of eclectic sound. After this its a power-fest as the sound scratches and writhes its way out of whatever that submerged place was. Soon Petit introduced radio sounds that give the impression of a subterranean space again… I kept feeling my listening was holding me in a submarine that would at brief moments allow for a surface burst, or a strong ray of hot sunshine making its way to me. Petit’s voice comes in here and it sounds less human than the machine. Soon muted screams herald the next burst in a relentless pulse that quickens and then relaxes. Soon the frantic voice stills and after keeping pace with the sonic wilds. Soon the sound will slide into a hunted silence… eventually …cut off... The feeling was of being submerged. Petits voice sounded like animals of some other world, making their way around and over the hovering listener. Melody from the electronics would break through the swell using a kind of repetition for opposites of sound: loud and soft, peace and turbulence. The sound got to the point that it seemed as though its opposite was contained within it.
Soon the sonic booms turn more toward a thumping sound that burst through the peace with shrill noises of overpowering distress. By this time Petit has hit the turntables in an harmonious scratch and twist that sits lightly over the pounding electrics. Soon the turntables become attacks of sound. The pounding is lost to the scratches of sound. Petit isn’t just a sound player. His is a visual performance, turning and twisting his body with the music, I have an image of his arms, elbows bent at right angles, hands spread wide over the turntables, his body twisting and writing along with the music. The turntables pluses deep within the psyche so that the sound is deeply personal. Petit seems able to cut out the space between me and the performance, involving my senses deeply...
Lisa Thatcher / Sydney. January 2013
https://lisathatcher.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/the-now-now-right-now-day-2-festival-review/
The lightning hands and unique approach of France’s Phillippe Petit provided another highlight. Petit performed on laptop and turntables, and resembled a manic cook in his kitchen. At times leaning in until his nose was almost against the vinyl, giving things a rub here and a dust off there, kneading, pulling and rolling his materials into shape to create a noisy, chaotic symphony from the most unlikely of sources.
Kate Carr - REAL TIME ARTS / AUSTRALIA
Philippe Petit: A Modern Atlantis Down Under A Wave Of Greed (DL - Truth Table - November 2020)
..."This musical travel agent (as he likes to be addressed)is confrontational, freewheeling, viscous and provocative like Frank Zappa was with rock music. A Modern Atlantis Down Under A Wave Of Greed is the beginning of a new path in the experimental electronic music genre. We are completely ready for this!"
MERCHANTS OF AIR - Belgium
http://www.merchantsofair.com/albums/philippe-petit-a-modern-atlantis-down-under-a-wave-of-greed?fbclid=IwAR0qiT0svdcGPmYFe-73rP6murzDkyI_znMcjn4sGWu0JSySEmHKJbH4P6A
It seems to me that Philippe Petit‘s mission in his artistic existence is to make us re-appraise the way that we listen to music, sound, noise, however you wish to describe it, and to try and rewrite the rules, using sounds and forms that are so outside of the general sound world that they feel like transmissions from another planet. It is as if he has tapped into a source of sound production that is from beyond and he is showing us what we are missing out on.
FREQ Magazine / UK
freq.org.uk/reviews/philippe-petit-and-michael-schaffer-i/?fbclid=IwAR22DQFmZGJW4LSFphPJedJGbS1hqktayXmOQGb7Cbs40HkJn6SgEvaGADA
Philippe Petit "Do Humans Dream Of Electronic Ships" (Double CD / Opa-Loka)
« ... One of the best soundtracks you’ve ever heard for an old sci-fi movie that was never made...»
CHAIN DLK / UK
www.chaindlk.com/reviews/?id=11215
Philippe Petit "A Descent Into the Maelstrom" (CD / Opa-Loka)
« I see Petit as one of our great collagists alongside someone like Jason Forrest, Christian Marclay and others that dare, and this is a sonic reminder. »
TONESHIFT / USA
toneshift.net/2019/07/21/descent-into-the-maelstrom-by-philippe-petit/?fbclid=IwAR10D62VbTgs9hzcl0KoQw-KrVZajdhWOitFxrJxrtql2sM6xuSgeXY9bVU
"... ride through the buzzing, intense, oftentimes warped realm of pure spaced out modular synthesis... heralding unknown dangers from outer dimensions and unexplored regions of the non-visible cosmic consciousness. Intense and demanding"
NITE STYLE / Germany
www.nitestylez.de/2019/07/philippe-petit-descent-into-maelstrom.html
"...A mature statement of an artist who breaks his own limitations."
FELTHAT / Australia
felthatreviews.blogspot.com/2019/09/philippe-petit-descent-into-maelstrom.html?fbclid=IwAR3tv-5rhW7Dc8iZ9luI5tn9okiq66qKTlsMIq1T0IaSudQ6VpY7zRtcQiQ
« … a compliment to the capability of the Buchla »
CHAIN DLK / UK
http://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/
« I see Petit as one of our great collagists alongside someone like Jason Forrest, Christian Marclay and others that dare, and this is a sonic reminder. »
TONESHIFT / USA
toneshift.net/2019/07/21/descent-into-the-maelstrom-by-philippe-petit/?fbclid=IwAR10D62VbTgs9hzcl0KoQw-KrVZajdhWOitFxrJxrtql2sM6xuSgeXY9bVU
"... ride through the buzzing, intense, oftentimes warped realm of pure spaced out modular synthesis... heralding unknown dangers from outer dimensions and unexplored regions of the non-visible cosmic consciousness. Intense and demanding"
NITE STYLE / Germany
www.nitestylez.de/2019/07/philippe-petit-descent-into-maelstrom.html
"...A mature statement of an artist who breaks his own limitations."
FELTHAT / Australia
felthatreviews.blogspot.com/2019/09/philippe-petit-descent-into-maelstrom.html?fbclid=IwAR3tv-5rhW7Dc8iZ9luI5tn9okiq66qKTlsMIq1T0IaSudQ6VpY7zRtcQiQ
« … a compliment to the capability of the Buchla »
CHAIN DLK / UK
http://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/
Philippe Petit "You Only Live Ice" (CD / Glacial Movements)
You Only Live Ice compellingly presents a landscape initially at rest, then draped, as if in timelapse, in dense tonal swathes, and wracked with electrostatic gusts and the chromatic violence of the Aurora Borealis, tension ratcheting up to a oneiric denouement.
http://igloomag.com/reviews/philippe-petit-you-only-live-ice
IGLOO MAGAZINE / USA
... This synthetic discomfort is precisely why I love such climatic sound – it is music that not only makes you feel, but stays with you when it’s over, like a crusty trace of an afflictive dream in the corner of your eye.
https://reviews.headphonecommute.com/2016/06/13/philippe-petit-you-only-live-ice-glacial-movements/
HEADPHONE COMMUTE / USA
You Only Live Ice compellingly presents a landscape initially at rest, then draped, as if in timelapse, in dense tonal swathes, and wracked with electrostatic gusts and the chromatic violence of the Aurora Borealis, tension ratcheting up to a oneiric denouement.
http://igloomag.com/reviews/philippe-petit-you-only-live-ice
IGLOO MAGAZINE / USA
... This synthetic discomfort is precisely why I love such climatic sound – it is music that not only makes you feel, but stays with you when it’s over, like a crusty trace of an afflictive dream in the corner of your eye.
https://reviews.headphonecommute.com/2016/06/13/philippe-petit-you-only-live-ice-glacial-movements/
HEADPHONE COMMUTE / USA
Philippe Petit "Multicoloured Shadows" (Picture Disc vinyl + CD / Aagoo)
Multicoloured Shadows is a landmark in Petit's three decades of honing his skills as a guide to musical roads less travelled and as a companion to others en route.
Petit deploys an almost baffling array of objects in an ever-twisting bricolage of noise and apparent confusion constructed from real, imaginary (or imaginative) and unusual instrumentation. The rattle of strings intersects with estranged vocal wails and glissandos that curve into being on ghostly elemental frissons of haunted musical machines, devices and effects tumbling over each other with dizzying results. His approach is filled with seemingly boundless energy, cut-ups performed in apparent real time with the palpable sense of a magpie eye always on the lookout for how to shape the ebb and flow of noises both recognisable and abstract into a coherent whole.
The pace of continual development Petit unveils on Multicoloured Shadows is frequently breathtaking, traipsing through ecstatic little synthesiser meanders one moment before delving to sounds explored, caressed and occasionally violently discarded in intensely realised close-up. Midway through 'Tibdinbilla Sanctuary Part 1' is pretty much like having brain surgery without anaesthetic, complete with miniature drills working their way into the skull while Petit operates skilfully but to seemingly obscure purpose. From that point onwards, sensations of post-trepannation weirdness and blissful delirium set the tone for the final ascent into an electrifying avant-shoegaze collage that at times resembles Konono No.1 exploring the swinging sounds of musique concrète.
... But throughout, Multicoloured Shadows is delivered with the magisterial pomp of modernism mashed up in crisp juxtapositions that bring to mind not just the long French tradition of exploratory noise works rooted in Pierre Boulez' sound research laboratories at IRCAM in Paris but also the brittle surrealism of Nurse With Wound at their most distractingly playful.
http://thequietus.com/articles/18865-philippe-petit-multicoloured-shadows-review
THE QUIETUS / UK
One of the finest challenges I have heard since Black Dice went AWOL.
PENNYBLACK MUSIC / UK
... There are guitars, cymbalum, electronics, kazooed voice, piano, organ, bass and percussion here. Petit does a great job, as always. His music always seems to have a massive aspect, like using a lot of paint on his canvas. Different colours of paint
that he smears together and with brushes pushes them apart, so you can see a bit of red here and a bit of yellow there, but also the green when it blurs together. That's how his music sounds. Sometimes you recognize the separate instruments, but then they get quickly transformed and changed into something new, but then all of a sudden you think: oh yeah, guitar or piano. In that sense is Petit's music quite psychedelic thanks to this massive layering of sound and sound effects creating these likewise massive fields of sound. ... This is some wild and vivid, imaginative electro-acoustic soundscape. Nothing quiet, hardly introspective but nevertheless a great bumpy ride. (FdW)
VITAL WEEKLY # 984 / Holland
Sublime !!!
http://subjectivisten.nl/?p=3503
DE SUBJECTIVISTEN / Holland
Philippe Petit: Ear me in… (Bôlt Records)
... An album of a non- academic composer and that's something one can easily hear in these two pieces. Petit doesn't care so much for classical notions on compositions, but rather plays around with these sounds in a more intuitive ways, which makes it all the more interesting. Quite a lovely tribute to the old masters by a new one. (FdW)
VITAL WEEKLY # 1004 / Holland
Edward Ka-Spel & Philippe Petit: Are You Receiving Us, Planet Earth ?! (ltd. Vinyl + Metal Box CD) (Rustblade)
The least I can say is that aside of the experimental input this work never becomes monotonous. The tracks are elaborate and alternate explicit electronic sequences, bombastic sounds and a few drones, guitar experiments and chilling atmospheres.
SIDE-LINE Magazine / USA - Europe
Lydia Lunch & Philippe Petit: Taste Our Voodoo (DOUBLE LP + DOUBLE CD / Rustblade)
... A notable pairing of artists. INTRAVENOUS MAGAZINE / USA
An essential work which complements and should give an urge to go see' em whenever/if they come perform close to yours.
STORMING THE BASE / UK
Murcof & Philippe Petit: 1st chapter (LP + CD + Digital / Rev. Lab. - Aagoo)
""First Chapter" is a masterpiece which should gratify every lovers of experimental electronics' whims."
STORIA DELLA MUSICA / ITALY
"This is very original material – First Chapter isn’t reminiscent of anything in the back catalogue of either of these two non-academic masters. This work should be appreciated for its genuine exploration of new lands, the care taken over small details and the bashful and occasionally outrageous elegance of the tunes, which reflect a pronounced harmonic wisdom and ascetic melancholy."
NEURAL / IT
"... Prepare thyself for this mammoth three part suite which finds both Murcof and Petit engaged in sublime and exquisitely detailed sound-scaping with the emphasis overtly gripped in shadows, dread and mythology. Petit and Corona are found operating at the heights of their individual craft to summon up a pact that twists and spews forth a terraforming musical vision whose menu mutates from chilling bowed arrangements, arcane choral chants and disquieting chamber doom to afford its subject matter reverential gravitas."
SUNDAY SERVICE / UK
"Quiet textures through which Petit’s dulcimer and the voice of mezzo-soprano Sarah Jouffroy stand out. Nice depth, rich sound palette, delicate textural progressions". MONSIEUR DELIRE / CANADA
""First Chapter" is a masterpiece which should gratify every lovers of experimental electronics' whims."
STORIA DELLA MUSICA / ITALY
"This is very original material – First Chapter isn’t reminiscent of anything in the back catalogue of either of these two non-academic masters. This work should be appreciated for its genuine exploration of new lands, the care taken over small details and the bashful and occasionally outrageous elegance of the tunes, which reflect a pronounced harmonic wisdom and ascetic melancholy."
NEURAL / IT
"... Prepare thyself for this mammoth three part suite which finds both Murcof and Petit engaged in sublime and exquisitely detailed sound-scaping with the emphasis overtly gripped in shadows, dread and mythology. Petit and Corona are found operating at the heights of their individual craft to summon up a pact that twists and spews forth a terraforming musical vision whose menu mutates from chilling bowed arrangements, arcane choral chants and disquieting chamber doom to afford its subject matter reverential gravitas."
SUNDAY SERVICE / UK
"Quiet textures through which Petit’s dulcimer and the voice of mezzo-soprano Sarah Jouffroy stand out. Nice depth, rich sound palette, delicate textural progressions". MONSIEUR DELIRE / CANADA
Philippe Petit: Needles In Pain (Pict. Disc vinyl album + Digital/ Alrealon Musique - MAY 2013)
"... a striking contrast to how the turntable is usually utilised in sound art: where most use vinyl's natural decay as a source of sombre nostalgic warmth, Petit intensifies it until it becomes a threatening weapon, and what usually resemble soothing firewood crackles are amplified until they sound like shin bones snapping in two". ROCK-A-ROLLA # 45 / UK
"Petit’s ability to mix drones with rough tones and flirring intertones derived from such a widely used medium are beyond the usual turntablism roots... An endless end of experimental sounds that never bores as you can access details with each new listening. Excellent concept and carefully presented. Chapeau."
EXPERIMENTALIZM / DE
"...And highly entertaining it is, this pair of thick, intricate tracks, in which the techniques may be obscured, but the creativity is not. Unidentifiable samples gather and swirl like hordes of locusts, accompanied by windshield wipers on dry windows..."
A CLOSER LISTEN / UK
"... A softly alluring and delicately scratched ice sculptured mosaic tenderly waking, stretching and yawning to a thawing twilight glow trimmed in a sighing melancholia and distant wistfulness, and collapsed into a woozy looping collage..."
THE SUNDAY EXPERIENCE / UK
A twenty-minute movement takes up each side, clouds of proto-ambient, two grand spiral nebulae of gas and grain slowly collapsing into consonance, as Petit hectors the vinyl until a piece breaks off midway through the second movement, into a romantic, if sandpapered and wormholed, spacely drift toward fitful drowse.
IGLOOMAG / USA
Eugene S. Robinson & Philippe Petit: Last Of The Dead Hot Lovers (NOV 2012. LP - CD - Digital / Southern UK)
"... And when a work is this raw and this ferocious, it’s difficult not to become invested. Last of the Dead Hot Lovers is the most challenging work Robinson and Petit have produced to date, and all the more unsettling for that."
TINY MIX TAPES / UK
"...The music of Philip Petit that plays behind the scenes is quite unsettling at first but perfectly echoes all along the underlying chaos and confusion that inhabits the characters. It oscillates between shadowy drones, sound manipulations, cinematic effects or hitchcockian evocations, and thus binds the whole story together to give it its extraordinary theatricality that turns Last of The Dead Hot Lovers into a quite oblique and menacing neo-noir performance."
FLUID / UK
"... Sounds like the result of a sickly, disturbing pleasure overload - lustful playtime taken to excess, with voices driven beyond orgasm and into reckless lunacy, squealing and muttering over Petit's anarchic noise and uneasy low-frequency drones."
ROCK A ROLLA / UK
"... It’s some kind of twisted masterpiece."
FOXY DIGITALIS / USA
"... Last Of The Dead Hot Lovers" is a powerful psycho drama finely balanced between love and hate, featuring a harrowing performance from the vocalists amidst Petit's free-flowing atmospherics of industrial, drone and avant garde mannerisms."
COMPULSION / USA
"... And when a work is this raw and this ferocious, it’s difficult not to become invested. Last of the Dead Hot Lovers is the most challenging work Robinson and Petit have produced to date, and all the more unsettling for that."
TINY MIX TAPES / UK
"...The music of Philip Petit that plays behind the scenes is quite unsettling at first but perfectly echoes all along the underlying chaos and confusion that inhabits the characters. It oscillates between shadowy drones, sound manipulations, cinematic effects or hitchcockian evocations, and thus binds the whole story together to give it its extraordinary theatricality that turns Last of The Dead Hot Lovers into a quite oblique and menacing neo-noir performance."
FLUID / UK
"... Sounds like the result of a sickly, disturbing pleasure overload - lustful playtime taken to excess, with voices driven beyond orgasm and into reckless lunacy, squealing and muttering over Petit's anarchic noise and uneasy low-frequency drones."
ROCK A ROLLA / UK
"... It’s some kind of twisted masterpiece."
FOXY DIGITALIS / USA
"... Last Of The Dead Hot Lovers" is a powerful psycho drama finely balanced between love and hate, featuring a harrowing performance from the vocalists amidst Petit's free-flowing atmospherics of industrial, drone and avant garde mannerisms."
COMPULSION / USA
Philippe Petit: "The Extraordinary Tale Of A Lemon Girl" trilogy
Chapter I: Oneiric Rings On Grey Velvet (January 2012. CD - Digital / Aagoo Rds)
"... A magical act of imagination made manifest..."
THE WIRE / UK
"The end result lands squarely between a children's fantasy adventure and some drug-riddled psychological horror..."
ROCK A ROLLA / UK
"A mature work, once more."
DELIRE ACTUEL / CANADA
Chapter I: Oneiric Rings On Grey Velvet (January 2012. CD - Digital / Aagoo Rds)
"... A magical act of imagination made manifest..."
THE WIRE / UK
"The end result lands squarely between a children's fantasy adventure and some drug-riddled psychological horror..."
ROCK A ROLLA / UK
"A mature work, once more."
DELIRE ACTUEL / CANADA
Philippe Petit: "The Extraordinary Tale Of A Lemon Girl" trilogy
Chapter II: Fire-Walking To Wonderland (June 2012. CD - Digital / Aagoo Rds)
"... A cacophonous exaggeration of group experimental improvisation, with every sound spontaneously bent and dismantled into the most bizarre and delightful forms.
ROCK A ROLLA / UK
"the soundworld is a lot less akin to an imaginary film soundtrack and closer to noise-based electroacoustic music. I like it a lot."
DELIRE ACTUEL / CANADA
"Lots of cracking of objects, played with great care but not always careful, with the right amount of sound effects - not too much reverb - and post editing (reversing sound, slowing down), snippets of records moving in and out, making the whole thing very vibrant. Much like an old musique concrete record, with a nice rough edge, untamed and wild."
VITAL WEEKLY / HOLLAND
"a captivating and genuinely unsettling trip into an impressively weird wonderland. Remnants of its fidgeting insanity will haunt you long after it ends."
SOUNDS XP / UK
Chapter II: Fire-Walking To Wonderland (June 2012. CD - Digital / Aagoo Rds)
"... A cacophonous exaggeration of group experimental improvisation, with every sound spontaneously bent and dismantled into the most bizarre and delightful forms.
ROCK A ROLLA / UK
"the soundworld is a lot less akin to an imaginary film soundtrack and closer to noise-based electroacoustic music. I like it a lot."
DELIRE ACTUEL / CANADA
"Lots of cracking of objects, played with great care but not always careful, with the right amount of sound effects - not too much reverb - and post editing (reversing sound, slowing down), snippets of records moving in and out, making the whole thing very vibrant. Much like an old musique concrete record, with a nice rough edge, untamed and wild."
VITAL WEEKLY / HOLLAND
"a captivating and genuinely unsettling trip into an impressively weird wonderland. Remnants of its fidgeting insanity will haunt you long after it ends."
SOUNDS XP / UK
Philippe Petit: "The Extraordinary Tale Of A Lemon Girl" trilogy
Chapter III: Hitch-hiking Thru Bronze Mirrors (October 2012. CD - Digital / Aagoo Rds)
"... The overall tone of the record remains firmly in fantasy... And the sonic journey taken on by Petit is incredibly ambitious and vast."
THE MILK FACTORY / UK
"This surreal brain-shaking tooth-lined rabbit hole of an album offers up a rewarding trip through the sublime and uncanny, often detouring into periods of tense horror. It grips from beginning to end."
SOUNDS XP / UK
"... An almost spell binding atmosphere"
TASTY / UK
"Romantic and sinister"
SKUG / AT
Chapter III: Hitch-hiking Thru Bronze Mirrors (October 2012. CD - Digital / Aagoo Rds)
"... The overall tone of the record remains firmly in fantasy... And the sonic journey taken on by Petit is incredibly ambitious and vast."
THE MILK FACTORY / UK
"This surreal brain-shaking tooth-lined rabbit hole of an album offers up a rewarding trip through the sublime and uncanny, often detouring into periods of tense horror. It grips from beginning to end."
SOUNDS XP / UK
"... An almost spell binding atmosphere"
TASTY / UK
"Romantic and sinister"
SKUG / AT
Philippe Petit & friends : Silk-screened (JAN 2010 - CD - Trace Recordings) (Digital / OFF Records)
"An ambitiously wild, weird, and noise-damaged avant-jazz opus... The whole album feels like the work of a single, very talented ensemble, Petit’s strain of jazz is certainly a unique one, as it falls very much in line with his stated “psycho-film-noir ambiance” aesthetic. Some of album’s tracks sound like they’d fit very comfortably on the soundtrack to a classic old hard-boiled detective film... Silk-Screened is a clear career highlight."
BRAINWASHED / USA
"a thoroughly dense and complex series of jazz-influenced, highly cinematic pieces."
BOOMKAT / UK
"The filmic atmosphere is even more stronger than in many of Petit's work, this time he definitely reclaims the soundtrack status. A simple elegant nightly recording with a lot of melancholic jazzy melodies and a fistful of tears and sadness falling right after the end titles."
CHAIN DLK / Holland
"This may be Petit’s best effort."
Délire Actuel by Francois Couture / Canada
"Plenty of mind-expanding stuff that's sure to please even the most jaded music fans. Wonderfully creative...and very, very mental."
BABYSUE / USA
"An ambitiously wild, weird, and noise-damaged avant-jazz opus... The whole album feels like the work of a single, very talented ensemble, Petit’s strain of jazz is certainly a unique one, as it falls very much in line with his stated “psycho-film-noir ambiance” aesthetic. Some of album’s tracks sound like they’d fit very comfortably on the soundtrack to a classic old hard-boiled detective film... Silk-Screened is a clear career highlight."
BRAINWASHED / USA
"a thoroughly dense and complex series of jazz-influenced, highly cinematic pieces."
BOOMKAT / UK
"The filmic atmosphere is even more stronger than in many of Petit's work, this time he definitely reclaims the soundtrack status. A simple elegant nightly recording with a lot of melancholic jazzy melodies and a fistful of tears and sadness falling right after the end titles."
CHAIN DLK / Holland
"This may be Petit’s best effort."
Délire Actuel by Francois Couture / Canada
"Plenty of mind-expanding stuff that's sure to please even the most jaded music fans. Wonderfully creative...and very, very mental."
BABYSUE / USA
Philippe Petit & Friends: Cordophony April 2012 - (CD / Home Normal)
"There's a ton of different styles and emotions at play here, but it all feels cohesive. "Cordophony" is like some long-lost relic of another time period, dusted off and released into a brand new world."
EXPERIMEDIA / USA
"with Cordophony, Petit has produced one of his most ambitious and complex record to date"
THE MILK FACTORY / UK
"... Some highly modern music, rooted in classical music, electro-acoustic music, soundscaping and even folk like tunes. Music that is filled from top to bottom with sounds, with always something happening. Now its time to work with a real ensemble - maybe Zeitkratzer should invite him?"
VITAL WEEKLY / HOLLAND
"... a rather stunning sonic concoction."
NORMAN / UK
"There's a ton of different styles and emotions at play here, but it all feels cohesive. "Cordophony" is like some long-lost relic of another time period, dusted off and released into a brand new world."
EXPERIMEDIA / USA
"with Cordophony, Petit has produced one of his most ambitious and complex record to date"
THE MILK FACTORY / UK
"... Some highly modern music, rooted in classical music, electro-acoustic music, soundscaping and even folk like tunes. Music that is filled from top to bottom with sounds, with always something happening. Now its time to work with a real ensemble - maybe Zeitkratzer should invite him?"
VITAL WEEKLY / HOLLAND
"... a rather stunning sonic concoction."
NORMAN / UK
ASVA & Philippe Petit: Empires Should Burn (Small Doses/Basses Fréquences - July 2012)
"Whether I was looking or not, I found new sounds on this record. And it has really changed the way I listen to music."
HAMMER SMASHED SOUND
the sound of a world burning, but at an excruciatingly slow pace. None of us can feel the temperature escalating, and we won’t until it’s too late.
TINY MIX TAPE / UK
"Subtle and beautiful,Empires Should Burn...is Asva at their most meditative.Even in heavy mode,Asva always had an underlying thoughtfulness that set them apart from their monolithic peers-this may not be Asva's loudest statement,but it's among their most eloquent.
ROCK A ROLLA / UK
'Those on an endless search for the manna that is quality introspective drone music need look no further until they fully probe what they found under the Empires Should Burn rock. This is a whole new world, a new fantastic point of view...
GUMSHOE GROVE / USA
"... a collection of ghost stories with sonic accompaniment. The fact that both the words and music are captivating is no easy task, and I can’t think of any time it worked so well other than Velvet Underground's "The Gift" or Wire's "The Other Window.""
BRAINWASHED / USA
"Empires Should Burn is the best kind of ghost story."
EXCLAIM / CANADA
"... not for everyone, requiring patience and a tolerance for drones and unexpected noises, but Empires Should Burn features fascinating storytelling pieces that engulf the listener and demand full attention."
PULSE / USA
"To call Empires Should Burn unsettling is an understatement - this album is made from twisted stomachs, standing neck hairs, and eyes gingerly peering over shoulders. Immerse yourself if you dare."
THE INARGUABLE / USA
"Whether I was looking or not, I found new sounds on this record. And it has really changed the way I listen to music."
HAMMER SMASHED SOUND
the sound of a world burning, but at an excruciatingly slow pace. None of us can feel the temperature escalating, and we won’t until it’s too late.
TINY MIX TAPE / UK
"Subtle and beautiful,Empires Should Burn...is Asva at their most meditative.Even in heavy mode,Asva always had an underlying thoughtfulness that set them apart from their monolithic peers-this may not be Asva's loudest statement,but it's among their most eloquent.
ROCK A ROLLA / UK
'Those on an endless search for the manna that is quality introspective drone music need look no further until they fully probe what they found under the Empires Should Burn rock. This is a whole new world, a new fantastic point of view...
GUMSHOE GROVE / USA
"... a collection of ghost stories with sonic accompaniment. The fact that both the words and music are captivating is no easy task, and I can’t think of any time it worked so well other than Velvet Underground's "The Gift" or Wire's "The Other Window.""
BRAINWASHED / USA
"Empires Should Burn is the best kind of ghost story."
EXCLAIM / CANADA
"... not for everyone, requiring patience and a tolerance for drones and unexpected noises, but Empires Should Burn features fascinating storytelling pieces that engulf the listener and demand full attention."
PULSE / USA
"To call Empires Should Burn unsettling is an understatement - this album is made from twisted stomachs, standing neck hairs, and eyes gingerly peering over shoulders. Immerse yourself if you dare."
THE INARGUABLE / USA
Philippe Petit: Eugénia EP (vinyl 10" + Digital / Alrealon Musique MAY 2012)
"A genuine collaboration, where the electronics and processing sit beside and engage with the acoustic instruments.... A fascinating study into chamber-electroacoustic working methods, and a damn fine listen."
CYCLIC DEFROST / AUSTRALIA
"These four tracks will indeed transport you to another level and/or dimension...which is most likely what it was designed to do. These odd compositions combine so many sounds and styles that it is difficult to try and come up with adequate ways of explaining and/or describing them. But whatever it is...it works. Beautifully strange and abstract. Top pick."
BABYSUE / USA
"accomplished and detailed work from a talented man."
NORMAN / UK
"... Another avant-classical dream sequence framed by a plethora of processed electro-acoustics, field recordings, "prepaired" piano, broken zither, electric psalterion and much more"
BOOMKAT / UK
"... Very entrancing and creatively put together. A cool balance of electronic and acoustic sounds."
DEEP IN THE MUSIC / UK
"A genuine collaboration, where the electronics and processing sit beside and engage with the acoustic instruments.... A fascinating study into chamber-electroacoustic working methods, and a damn fine listen."
CYCLIC DEFROST / AUSTRALIA
"These four tracks will indeed transport you to another level and/or dimension...which is most likely what it was designed to do. These odd compositions combine so many sounds and styles that it is difficult to try and come up with adequate ways of explaining and/or describing them. But whatever it is...it works. Beautifully strange and abstract. Top pick."
BABYSUE / USA
"accomplished and detailed work from a talented man."
NORMAN / UK
"... Another avant-classical dream sequence framed by a plethora of processed electro-acoustics, field recordings, "prepaired" piano, broken zither, electric psalterion and much more"
BOOMKAT / UK
"... Very entrancing and creatively put together. A cool balance of electronic and acoustic sounds."
DEEP IN THE MUSIC / UK
Philippe Petit & friends : A Scent Of Garmambrosia (MAY 2010 - Double CD + Digital - Aagoo Rds)
"Strange stuff by anyone's standards...very inventive, reflective, and peculiar... Truly amazing stuff."
BABYSUE / USA
"A Scent of Garmambrosia leaves the jazzier leanings of Silk-Screened behind, focusing on a more ambient and resolutely troubled artistic approach. Petit is a master at adding shades of grey to a soundscape. His vinyl manipulations and sonic pollutions are surprisingly delicate, incremential, and nuanced."
ALL MUSIC GUIDE / CANADA
"Like the Lynchian worlds these sounds are clearly inspired and co offer the listener a space to penetrate the impenetrable; making a wealth of sound creation open to personal interpretation."
FLUID RADIO / UK
"Strange stuff by anyone's standards...very inventive, reflective, and peculiar... Truly amazing stuff."
BABYSUE / USA
"A Scent of Garmambrosia leaves the jazzier leanings of Silk-Screened behind, focusing on a more ambient and resolutely troubled artistic approach. Petit is a master at adding shades of grey to a soundscape. His vinyl manipulations and sonic pollutions are surprisingly delicate, incremential, and nuanced."
ALL MUSIC GUIDE / CANADA
"Like the Lynchian worlds these sounds are clearly inspired and co offer the listener a space to penetrate the impenetrable; making a wealth of sound creation open to personal interpretation."
FLUID RADIO / UK
Vultures Qt. & Philippe Petit: Tourbillon d'Obscurité (FEB 2011 - CD + Digital - Sub Rosa)
"Throughout the entirety of its unending textural evolutions, Tourbillon D'obscurité never loses its emotional charge... A psychological intensity that sucks you in and leaves you fascinated with the resultant feeling of discomfort."
TOKAFI / GERMANY
"... New, exciting sounds with which we hope we can entertain and inspire others to do the same!"
FLUID / UK
"... There is a sense of focus, and the focus is on keeping everything spaced out, allowing the time to let everyone’s efforts fully evolve and progress. As tonally diverse as this recording is, there is an underlying mark from which the mood of the piece never quavers....Very nicely done! There is balance and harmony to be found in this work."
HEATHEN HARVEST / UK
"Throughout the entirety of its unending textural evolutions, Tourbillon D'obscurité never loses its emotional charge... A psychological intensity that sucks you in and leaves you fascinated with the resultant feeling of discomfort."
TOKAFI / GERMANY
"... New, exciting sounds with which we hope we can entertain and inspire others to do the same!"
FLUID / UK
"... There is a sense of focus, and the focus is on keeping everything spaced out, allowing the time to let everyone’s efforts fully evolve and progress. As tonally diverse as this recording is, there is an underlying mark from which the mood of the piece never quavers....Very nicely done! There is balance and harmony to be found in this work."
HEATHEN HARVEST / UK
Philippe Petit: Henry: The Iron Man (CD - BLRR / LP - Aagoo)
"Even without using any of the original source material, Petit combines the schizophrenic noise chaos of Eraserhead with the abstract industrial dystopia of Tetsuo, and the combination works out very well. The symbolism is wonderful here, though as a listening experience, it’s almost too intense. The sense of dread and menace never relents, there are no quiet or introspective movements, the darkness just continues on and on."
BRAINWASHED / USA
"A complete and total form of artistic expression. Strange, creepy, unsettling...dark and hypnotic. TOP PICK"
BABYSUE / USA
"...not a pleasant listening experience by any means, but Eraserhead and Tetsuo: The Iron Man are both notoriously unpleasant films, and by cutting them up in his subconscious mind, Petit has created the basis for a compelling soundtrack. God help us all if such a movie is ever actually produced."
REGEN MAG / USA
"Petit’s music is spacial, minimalist, oft erratic, and the perfect background for the next generation David Lynch."
FENSEPOST / USA
"Even without using any of the original source material, Petit combines the schizophrenic noise chaos of Eraserhead with the abstract industrial dystopia of Tetsuo, and the combination works out very well. The symbolism is wonderful here, though as a listening experience, it’s almost too intense. The sense of dread and menace never relents, there are no quiet or introspective movements, the darkness just continues on and on."
BRAINWASHED / USA
"A complete and total form of artistic expression. Strange, creepy, unsettling...dark and hypnotic. TOP PICK"
BABYSUE / USA
"...not a pleasant listening experience by any means, but Eraserhead and Tetsuo: The Iron Man are both notoriously unpleasant films, and by cutting them up in his subconscious mind, Petit has created the basis for a compelling soundtrack. God help us all if such a movie is ever actually produced."
REGEN MAG / USA
"Petit’s music is spacial, minimalist, oft erratic, and the perfect background for the next generation David Lynch."
FENSEPOST / USA
Philippe Petit : Off To Titan (a rework of Gustav Mahler's symphonic poem) (SEPT 2010 - CD + Digital - Karl Rds)
"... It is this striking dialogue between Mahler's past and Petit's present, rather than a mere embellishment of classical music with a few electronic effects, which lends the result its inescapable pull and fascination. Album of the month!"
TOKAFI / GERMANY
"Although Philippe Petit’s work is continuously opening up to new grounds, this is a project that stands out by its audacious approach. The result may not be to the taste of purists, but there is no denying the impressive feat of rendering Mahler’s original in such a psychedelic fashion while maintaining much of the original’s integrity."
THE MILK FACTORY / UK
"... It is this striking dialogue between Mahler's past and Petit's present, rather than a mere embellishment of classical music with a few electronic effects, which lends the result its inescapable pull and fascination. Album of the month!"
TOKAFI / GERMANY
"Although Philippe Petit’s work is continuously opening up to new grounds, this is a project that stands out by its audacious approach. The result may not be to the taste of purists, but there is no denying the impressive feat of rendering Mahler’s original in such a psychedelic fashion while maintaining much of the original’s integrity."
THE MILK FACTORY / UK
Chapter 24 & Philippe Petit: The Red Giant Meets The White Dwarf (JAN 2011 - CD - Boring Machines)
"Impressive. While the mood constantly changes, they manage to retain the same level of intensity all the way through to create a particularly evocative soundtrack of their own."
THE MILK FACTORY / UK
"A beautiful, strange and compelling record, very much in possession of its own dynamic, sideways character. I could eagerly hear more work by this combination of people – for something so elusively crespuscular, it makes a LOT of sense."
FOXY DIGITALIS / USA
"... you’re guaranteed a rich assortment of textures and flavours in every bite of this improvised ambient sweetmeat."
THE SOUND PROJECTOR / UK
"... sounds futuristic and spacey, disengaged from reality and utterly compelling."
HEAD HERITAGE / UK
"Impressive. While the mood constantly changes, they manage to retain the same level of intensity all the way through to create a particularly evocative soundtrack of their own."
THE MILK FACTORY / UK
"A beautiful, strange and compelling record, very much in possession of its own dynamic, sideways character. I could eagerly hear more work by this combination of people – for something so elusively crespuscular, it makes a LOT of sense."
FOXY DIGITALIS / USA
"... you’re guaranteed a rich assortment of textures and flavours in every bite of this improvised ambient sweetmeat."
THE SOUND PROJECTOR / UK
"... sounds futuristic and spacey, disengaged from reality and utterly compelling."
HEAD HERITAGE / UK
Eugene Robinson (Oxbow) & Philippe Petit: The Crying Of Lot 69 (CD + Digital / Monotype - July 2011)
"A highly worthy addition to your collection."
PROGRESS REPORT / UK
"A deeply visceral and urgent piece of work which deserves to be heard."
THE MILK FACTORY / UK
"A highly worthy addition to your collection."
PROGRESS REPORT / UK
"A deeply visceral and urgent piece of work which deserves to be heard."
THE MILK FACTORY / UK
Philippe Petit: Una Symphonia Della Paura (CD - Utech Records)
"this CD must be of serious consideration to those who require something organic and intoxicating from their love of extreme music, not power electronics, more the power of TG, this music has that kind of dark sensual improvised energy I long for. Blistering stuff!"
NORMAN / UK
Highly recommended!!
AQUARIUS / USA
"this CD must be of serious consideration to those who require something organic and intoxicating from their love of extreme music, not power electronics, more the power of TG, this music has that kind of dark sensual improvised energy I long for. Blistering stuff!"
NORMAN / UK
Highly recommended!!
AQUARIUS / USA
Lydia Lunch & Philippe Petit: In Comfort (May 2011 - 12" Pict. Disc vinyl + Digital- Comfortzone)
"Excellent."
BOOMKAT / UK
"Excellent."
BOOMKAT / UK
Lydia Lunch & Philippe Petit: Twist Of Fate (DEC 2010 - CD + DVD + Book / Monotype + Digital / BiP_HOp)
"... encounter the turntable madness of Petit, the psychedelic electronics and biting, sarcastic voice of Lunch in full effect. Almost like popmusic at times, but then at others more largely, extensive soundscapes in which Lunch' voice meanders about. A work that can be easily labelled as very successful throughout."
VITAL WEEKLY / HOLLAND
"... encounter the turntable madness of Petit, the psychedelic electronics and biting, sarcastic voice of Lunch in full effect. Almost like popmusic at times, but then at others more largely, extensive soundscapes in which Lunch' voice meanders about. A work that can be easily labelled as very successful throughout."
VITAL WEEKLY / HOLLAND
Cindytalk & Philippe Petit (12inch + vinyl postcard / Lumberton Trading Co. - NOV 2011)
"A Question Of Re-Entry provides an enthralling twenty minutes and showcases two artists working in perfect harmony."
FOXY DIGITALIS / USA
"... the pair hold their frameworks very well and offer, with this EP, an all-too short collection of refined atmospheric experiments."
THE MILK FACTORY / UK
"A Question Of Re-Entry provides an enthralling twenty minutes and showcases two artists working in perfect harmony."
FOXY DIGITALIS / USA
"... the pair hold their frameworks very well and offer, with this EP, an all-too short collection of refined atmospheric experiments."
THE MILK FACTORY / UK
Philippe Petit & Pietro Riparbelli / K11: The Haunting Triptych (MARCH 2010 - CD - Boring Machines)
"Petit and Riparbelli submit their audience to a particularly chilling sonic assault."
THE MILK FACTORY / UK
"Dark, haunting, drone-like and hermetically closed. Not to be played in the dark by the weak of hearth."
VITAL WEEKLY / HOLLAND
"a very interesting, hallucinatory and powerful piece of work…"
PSYCHOTROPIC ZONE / ITALY
"Petit and Riparbelli submit their audience to a particularly chilling sonic assault."
THE MILK FACTORY / UK
"Dark, haunting, drone-like and hermetically closed. Not to be played in the dark by the weak of hearth."
VITAL WEEKLY / HOLLAND
"a very interesting, hallucinatory and powerful piece of work…"
PSYCHOTROPIC ZONE / ITALY
James Johnston & Philippe Petit : fiends with a face (MAY 2009 - CD - Dirter) (Digital / BiP_HOp)
"adds up to the kind of listen that’d hold its own in those imaginary soundtrack stakes where beauty and something vaguely threatening merge to traverse new paths."
ADVERSE EFFECT / UK
"adds up to the kind of listen that’d hold its own in those imaginary soundtrack stakes where beauty and something vaguely threatening merge to traverse new paths."
ADVERSE EFFECT / UK
