Jean-Louis Prades created Imagho in 1997, already basing his work on guitars, infinite delays, and loops. His first album’s [“image des mondes flottants”, loom 2000] frozen harmonies of tangled sonic layers and loops earned Imagho to be compared to the likes of the Boxhead Ensemble.

“Someone controls electric guitar” stems from improvised sessions recorded in a long period – several years. This album is the first to be entirely untitled to the guitar, using no other source. The natural sound of amplified electric guitars is transformed into ever-changing sonic landscapes, as a tribute to the warm, resounding and versatile aspects of the instrument.

Imagho sublimates all the small cracks, jack sounds, and various eccentricities of the guitar, building fluid and harmonious atmospheres from these “glitches”. This is made possible by the using of laptop and real time treatment through free improvisation.
Imagho’s sonic artefacts might evoke Christian Fennesz on the most hypnotic moments, as well as Gastr del Sol or Bill Frisell’s oblique harmonies.

“Someone controls electric guitar” is the third part of a trilogy, which other parts are Lunt and Baka!, still available on our web site.

Once they played noise music… Then Unique Records released their first critically acclaimed album… Baka have never stopped ever since experimenting, making and unmaking sounds.

Dealing with Baka can’t go without evoking their astonishing prolixity - many different projects (Tomek and Gasp by Franck Lafay, Imagho, Frz+Imagho, Sketches of Pain by JL Prades) and above all many live improvisations, where all fields of experiments are tackled: drones, guitars, Electro-acoustic manipulations, guitar feedback... etc

Ephémère was born through all this searching. Several live sessions and improvisations were linked, mixed and edited from various stereo tracks. The result is one 40-minute track.
The different layers go on dephasing themselves, while acoustic flows roll through the stereo so as to question our own perception. Baka plays with time and space, creates powerful amounts of energy and finally finds light again thanks to crystal-clear arpeggios. The melodies mix themselves, the arpeggios flow together before being in the end melt into organised chaos.

We urge you to listening to this new record, this invitation to a trip, both through noise and yourself.