The first album with Patrick Guillot patrickg75.blogspot.com
Four land/soundscapes of unknown places. All compositions and instruments by Patrick Guillot and guska.
The title 'le bleu du ciel vide' was borrowed from Stephen Crane

Some introduction made by Patrick G:
One day, in the late summer of 2021, and as is now often done between distant musicians, my friend Guska sent me a “lead”, inviting me to do something with it, based on my inspiration...
My first reaction was to feel that, really, I did not see what I could add to this track, so much the material seemed already rich, and consistent, as it was. By seeing it again, I began to see it as a “landscape”. A particular landscape: that of a rather vast valley, such as it could be discovered, at dawn, from a height: the mists dissipate, the night moves away, the sky will open to the light of the rising
sun...
And, to such a landscape, what need to add anything, isn’t it?
All it wants is to be seen. And then, at some point, comes the idea of going through it.
Fortunately, the idea was no longer to add anything to it. It was only a matter of – going on a hike! – of exploring it, by multiplying the points
of view, all the configurations...
The trail – the landscape proposed by Guska, had the title:
« A Gong for Eliane Radigue » The dedication to Eliane Radigue, to this great artist, and discoverer of new lands, still unknown when she began to enter it, this dedication suited me perfectly. At that point
I proposed to Guska to extend the dedication to the entire album,
whose production we had then undertaken, according to the same collaborative principle: Guska discovered a landscape, which I would then go through.
We had composed three pieces (A Gong for a Song, Secret Chamber, and A Cold Hell) when I proposed, for the last one, to reverse the roles: it is therefore I who proposed to Guska the fourth of our landscapes, that he then came to live: Le bleu du ciel vide battait comme un tambour (*) (This sentence, striking, is the French translation of a sentence by Stephen Crane, which I had just found in an article on the biography devoted to him by Paul Auster: A Burning Boy.
What Stephen Crane left behind shows enough that he would have been a giant of world literature in the first half of the 20th century if he had not died at the age of twenty-nine, in 1900. But that’s a different story.)
As we evoked landscapes here, about these four pieces of music, it seemed natural to visually accompany the sound reality.
(* The blue of the empty sky beat like a drum ?)

Patrick Guillot made 4 animated movies for this album youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRdB7wEC8Fuc1UTljnoQyNV0RmPfarfyo