Various, Charles Bals

𝘾𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧, 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙠𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝘽𝙖𝙡𝙨 𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙃𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙜'𝙨 𝘽𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙪 𝘽 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 '𝘼𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙚', 𝙖 𝙟𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙮 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙𝙡𝙮 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟯 - 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟬. 𝘿𝙧𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙚𝙛𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙡𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙙𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙚𝙭𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙨𝙢, 𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬 𝙛𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙡𝙞𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙨, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙞𝙚𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙡𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙤𝙗𝙨𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙮 𝙪𝙣-𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙜𝙡𝙚-𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙘𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙖 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙡 𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙨, 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙩 𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙞𝙩 𝙨𝙠𝙞𝙚𝙨. 𝘾𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙘 & 𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙘, '𝘼𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙚' 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪'𝙫𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙢𝙚𝙩 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙘𝙖𝙣'𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙥 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩.
A familiar face to those who dwell in the deep end of the record pool, Charles is an obsessive digger, always on the track of an otherwise unheard sound. Through two trips to 'Club Meduse' and star-crossed lovers 'America Dream Reserve' and 'Black Rain', he's also established himself as a mixtape auteur, weaving together the strange and beautiful into evocative compilations that transport listeners to distinct, imaginative realms.
- While his previous sets resembled Super-8 vignettes, populated by sun-kissed hedonists and drifting outsiders, 'Ambientale' sees Charles leave the human world behind, exploring all the world's wilderness on the scale of an IMAX epic. Rainforest, savanna, seascape and sand dune blur into one under digital manipulation, questioning the balance of nature and technology and wondering whether AI might discover the blueprint of all life and all planets. There's also a little room on the mood board for the striking underwater cinematography and lush soundtrack of Luc Besson's The Big Blue, a film he first saw in 1987 at an open-air theatre in the same Southern French resort that inspired 'Club Meduse'. Bals opens his sonic travelogue with the bamboo flutes and resonant gongs of esteemed Italian maestro Luigi Ceccarelli, joined by the clean lines and Eastern tonalities of the little-known RanÅ Boru.