Pascal Bideau

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Akusmi: Fleeting Future

by Chris May
July 27, 2022

Anyone who enjoys the landmark albums that are Terry Riley's minimalist manifesto In C (Columbia, 1968) and Jon Hassell's fourth world masterpiece Dream Theory In Malaya (EG, 1981) is in for a big treat. Actually, a triple treat. French-born, London-based composer and producer Pascal Bideau's entrancing Fleeting Future is redolent of not one of those albums, but both of them, and as a bonus, Bideau's disc swings in a way that Riley and Hassell's do not. Along with tenor saxophonist ...