Having included a track by enigmatic French experimentalists Omertà on their 2023 compilation, Searchlight Moonbeam, Efficient Space now zoom in on the solo work of the group’s guitarist Pierre Bujeau. The label’s latest release is an album that collects 3 of his pieces, produced under the alias Megabasse, that were previously only issued on limited cassette.

The press one-sheet describes Bujeau’s process, which involves a double-necked guitar and twin Fender amps. The flow of notes back and forth between the latter creating kind of Fripp & Eno-esque phasing effects, which they claim can open a portal to another world. This is certainly true of the opening, and longest, number, L’Ultimo Sacrifacio. It’s 22 minutes of plucked and picked patterns, of overlapping, interlocking, evolving repeats. The top end chiming like church bells ringing. The bottom buzzing, blurred, distorted, bleeding into the space in between. A delicate, super slow dance, soaked in Robin Guthrie like levels of reverb, and hugely hypnotic, it plays like a Vini Reilly record pitched way, way down. 

Marcia, Baila, Suogna, again employs this pitching effect, but its melody is more folk, more traditional sounding. Its strange time signature suggesting a broken post-rock reading of a mid-western waltz. The spacial separation summoning near subliminal soft organ-like drones. 

The concluding, comparatively short, at around 4 minutes, composition / improvisation, Suogna Piazzata, adds bowed cello-esque textures to the patient, gentle, relaxing repeats. Making Arthur Russell and his World Of Echo another point of reference as Bujeau’s fleet fingers slide against, dart across, myriad strings. 

Megabasse’s Flamenca is out now on Efficient Space.