For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.

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Roxane Métayer is a visual artist and musician based in Brussels. Her work primarily focuses on forest wildlife and flora. The living world and our connection to it play a central role in her creations. Her music combines collages of sound recordings captured in nature (forests, marshes, ponds, clearings, etc.) with various wind and string instruments, such as the violin, as well as her own voice. Through imitation, she stages fictional wildlife and flora.

She has released several albums on labels such as Matière Mémoire, Kraak, Morc, Primordial Void, Wabi-Sabi Tapes, and Marionnette Label. Her album Perlée de Sève was named one of the best experimental music selections on Bandcamp.

MUSIC MENTIONS

• Dead Can Dance
• Adobe Premiere
• Tomás Tello
• “Le Chant des Oiseaux” album by various artists
• Codex Club

Q&A

• “Pianoon” by Limpe Fuchs

Discovering music today (24:55):

• Ocora (label)
• Secondhand record stores

First album ever purchased (28:05):

• “Hilary Hahn Plays Bach” by Hilary Hahn

Most recent album purchased (29:18):

• “Oude geuze uit Niemandaal” by Linus Vandewolken

Artists discovered in the past year (30:06):

• Audrey Carmes
• Limpe Fuchs

Desert island discs (32:48):

• “Hilary Hahn Plays Bach” by Hilary Hahn
• “Turtle Dreams” by Meredith Monk
• “The Voice of Lightness, Vol. 1: Congo Classics (1966-1977)” by Tabu Ley Rochereau