ETANT DONNES - Les Cent Jours Clairs

" Etant Donnes is a French duo named after Marcel Duchamp 's last major work. The group consists of brothers Marc and Eric Hurtado , born in Morocco and working mainly as performance artists and musicians. Their sound can be described as a mix of field recordings, found sounds and sometimes whispered, sometimes violent vocals. They describe their sounds like this: 'Through Marc and Eric, it is the volume of each word that becomes an object-sculpture, together with the power of their bodies expressing their voices. Each event is a scream -- indeed even the glissando -- of the strength of the word that sometimes abruptly becomes a rock, a solid surface, not in the least fluvial, as is the narrative of a tale, novel or poetic epic. With both of them, there is no more trace of ancient prosodies, no more trace of the incomprehensible Sainte-Beuve who could claim: 'I have to collect a volume of prose.' The word, the voice, the volume take shape with each other, unveiling a theatre that theatre usually ignores, which has given it such things as a Samuel Beckett 's Fin de Partie .' Over the years Etant Donnes have collaborated with people like Lydia Lunch , Michael Gira , Alan Vega , and Genesis P-Orridge . Les Cent Jours Clairs was the group's sixth album and was originally released on Bain Total in 1984."