tant Donns tant Donns is a duet by Eric and Marc Hurtado created in Grenoble in 1980.

The music of the Etant Donns's first period (1977/1983) boxset describes a rite o f passage from mortality to divinity, a powerful but hidden passion craving beau ty and burning love that can be conquered only by another form of secret pain, t hat of losing yourself in the cosmos and becoming part of the muddy streams of d istant stars. Their soundworks are constructed through the manipulation of natur al sounds, using the variation of velocity and intensity of the recordings, the cutting and splicing of tape. Etant Donnes 's compositions are passionate and brutally communicative, their mu sic and words are minimalist just like the writings and chants of the religious mystics sufi, trying to recover the virginity of the words and sounds, they map new territories and establisch their own personal rules. These first tracks cont ains all the brutal collages of found sounds investigating nuances of sounds tha t at times verges upon silence, the inspired and enraptured meeting with earth's natural forces, an hommage to the shadow of night, to the vineyard and the gold en door. In these six first vinyls Etant donns create their own brand of total au dio expression using belches and punches, their attention is concentrated on the symphonic cacophonie organisation of disorganized found sounds, using magical r ythms only directed by cosmic rules. A perfect way of organising natural sounds that obeys to fundamental principles that everyone wishes to convey, a music abl e to tear down walls and to build a universal comprehension, a cosmic law of bea uty, a magical and alchemical act of poetry. (Source: Myspace) http://www.etant-donnes.com/wonderland/