FACE A from Bétyle by Jérôme Poret
Baetylus (also Baetyl, Bethel, or Betyl, from Semitic bet el "house of god") is a word denoting sacred stones that were supposedly endowed with life. According to ancient sources, these objects of worship were meteorites, which were dedicated to the gods or revered as symbols of the gods themselves. A baetyl is also mentioned in the Bible at Bethel in the Book of Genesis in the story of Jacob's Ladder.
Jérôme Poret has been scavenging abandoned sounds from industrial wastelands, public areas as well as phonography for many years, the way a rag-and-bone man would do. With the gathered material, he builds narratives–halfway between sound documents and musical fiction–on the aggregates of the 20th century.