Une création devenue réflexe et un constat presque immédiat - tranchant - Christophe Bailleau O'Farrell refuse et abhorre les évidences - Ce nouvel EP, jalonnant une déjà très riche collaboration avec le label Mahorka, dénonce en tous points les choix faciles, trop souvent volontaires, et la nervosité d’une époque où la fréquence a remplacé la rareté comme critère de valeur - LOCUST BEAM GUM est une réalisation qui cherche l'inattendu, la possible nécessaire cohérence et trouve la sensation nouvelle - Des frontières poreuses d'une approche acoustique aux plus profondes et saillantes abstractions, LOCUST BEAM GUM ouvre encore de très nombreuses perspectives et autant de présents enthousiasmes.
L'investigation sans fin mérite quelques récompenses !
thierry massard pour mahorka // mai 2025
LOCUST BEAM GUM — A Dislocation in Minor Frequencies
A creation born from reflex. A real-ization almost immediate, and razor-sharp. Christophe Bailleau O’Farrell does not tolerate the obvious. He rejects it, he dismantles it - This new EP — another mark in an already rich and unpredictable collaboration with the Mahorka label — speaks out, unmistakably, against the comfort of easy choices, the all-too-willing shortcuts, and the anxiety of a time where frequency has overtaken rarity as the primary currency of worth.
LOCUST BEAM GUM is not simply a release — it is a search. For the unexpected. For the coherence that may or may not exist — but feels necessary. It doesn’t follow a trail; it leaves one.
From the porous borders of acoustic minimalism to the dense, jagged cliffs of abstraction, this record opens not just possibilities — it opens presents. Now after now, sensation after sensation, each track becomes a hinge between what is and what could be.
It chews through assumptions, beams into forgotten corridors of sound, and sticks — not to what you know, but to what you didn’t know you were missing.
In a world where listening has become a reflex and output a race, this endless investigation deserves, at the very least, a trophy or a fluorescent gumdrop of sonic resistance.
