thomas barriere: primaire

Thomas Barrière's Primaire is nourished by various ethnical inspirations: Baluchistan, the Mediterranean, and Namibia, bent into a contemporary shape of experimentation and progressive rock. For this project, Thomas uses a double-neck guitar (six and twelve strings) with two outputs independently connected each to a tube amp. Each channel has its own volume and distortion and a switch on a guitar allows several combinations and musical effects; stereo, resonance, and ping-pong-effect. Barrière uses several objects: bows, EBows, radio-cassette Walkman, coin, chopstick, chime, prepared shoes, Moroccan oboe. There aren't any loops or overdubs.