Second of two recent releases by Unfathomless here from 19/03/2026. Ingeos.org is the French musician and sound artist Cédric Peyronnet. We haven’t heard much from him in these pages, although there was a 2014 oddity where, as Toy Bizarre, he reprocessed recordings made by Guido Huebner. He’s collaborated now and then with Small Cruel Party, Brume, Roel Meelkop and even RLW, often publishing his released under cryptic titles which are hard to decode.
That observation applies to today’s item, kdi dctb 265 {e} – Le Libre (UNFATHOMLESS U92). The last part of this evidently refers to Le Libre, a district of the French countryside which is where he made his field recording captures, and there’s a list of villages printed on the back cover. There are ten separate parts to his creation, but the record plays back as 37:38 mins of continuous sound. As with David Vélez (see previous post), the audio transformations have been pretty profound, and nary a recognisable flavour or perfume is available to the curious rambler in these faintly alien tones. Yet somehow we still know it is the countryside, and it’s as though Ingeos was capable of seeing into the heart and bones that make up the landscape, x-raying his surroundings as sure as if he were a super-powered archaeologist, one who could assess an entire 300-metre hill and its contents without the need to stage a massive dig over eight months. The open air somehow seeps into his tapes. He also presents his continual programme of noises with a real artistic touch, highly sensitive to changes in mood and colour, accepting the ebb and flow of nature’s bounty with his questing mics.
Apart from listing his locations, Ingeos feels no compulsion to reveal much more about his techniques, methods, or the contents of his picnic basket, so those looking for a catalogue of microphones or tape machines should refer elsewhere. Rather dramatic opening moments to this one – sharp eclats and thunderclaps like shotguns – giving way to a more measured acceptance of the slow pace and gently unfolding events expressed as layers of hums, drones, scents, and breezes.