For his second Intransitive album, Lionel Marchetti returns to his favorite subject: the modern musique concrete composer as shaman. Amid an atmosphere of heavy mystery and engrossing, sublime confusion, Hatali Atsalei (L’Echange des Yeux) seems to be informed by radio drama, improvisation, and documentary recording. According to Olivier Capparos’ liner notes, the album provides a “rather faithful” experience of Ancient Greek ritual: Hatali Atseli, the exchange of eyes. Marchetti the alchemist takes the listener to the scene of an imaginary sacred rite, drawing us in with hints of narrative, only to throw expectations aside with the slice of razor on tape. Fire, water, wind instruments and percussion are blended with the voice of collaborator Seijiro Murayama to create something which is not quite a representation of ritual, but is a ritual itself that becomes completed by the act of listening. Lionel Marchetti (France, 1967) is a self-taught composer of musique concrète. He has built his own recording studio, and has composed in the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris since 1993. Marchetti also performs improvisation using microphones and loudspeakers as a duo with Jérôme Noetinger, and with the collective Le Cube, which performs live music and interactive film. Since 1992, he organizes workshops on radio art together with Olivier Capparos for France Culture. Percussionist Seijiro Murayama is founding member of seminal noise/rock band A.N.P. (with KK Null). He performs in collaboration with mnortham, Keiji Haino/Fushitsusha, Eric Cordier, Fred Frith, and Michel Doneda, among others. $12ppd US $14ppd world Praise for Hatali Atseli: "...both highly conceptual and infinitely fascinating: a harrowing, frightening, and compelling audio drama that reveals different facets of this ritual with each listen. Special attention should also be made to Murayama's vocalisms throughout the disc.... he gives some of the most pained, agonizing rasps and growls ever recorded to disk. The only parallel I can draw is akin to Malefic's notorious casket vocals on Sunn O)))'s Black One, but more alien and isolated." - Brainwashed "It's a work that is not like many around in the fields of musique concrete... It's highly captivating visual music, very much along the lines of Etant Donnes' 'Bleu' CD - and that's possibly the only thing I can compared it with. A true beauty, fascinating and captivating." - Vital Weekly "Dramaturgie primitive, poésie sonore et ethnomusicologie imaginaire font ainsi bon ménage dans cette pièce unique en son genre." - Octopus