Pinkcourtesyphone

Pinkcourtesyphone is a project of Richard Chartier, an acclaimed sound designer and installation artist who runs the Line label. While Chartier's work under his own name is explicitly reductionist, focusing on deep, extended tones and their relation to silence, the Pinkcourtesyphone project is much more expressive. Constantly evoking a dreamlike state, its recordings feature billowing ambient loops, field recordings, detached monologue samples, and a somewhat cinematic quality. Constantly bathed in ethereal echo, there's an oddly seductive feel to the music, with yearning, fra...