Èlg et La Chimie

L'artiste Èlg, aka Laurent Gérard, et La Chimie en concert au Magasin 4 à Bruxelles en mai 2021, avec Vica Pacheco, Johann Mazé, et Marie Nachury. En 2019, il aborde la composition d’une série de tableaux sonores autour des états multiples de l’être qui constitue l’album "Dans le Salon du Nous" qui est sorti en novembre 2021 sur le label belge Vlek. Enfin un renouveau du style de la chanson en langue française!
Èlg fait aussi partie du trio Orgue Agnés que nous apprécions particulièrement et a accompagné notre ami Tazartés au sein du trio Reines d'Angleterre. Il a aussi écrit de subtils accompagnements musicaux pour le très poètique film "Les Particules"

Belgian artist Èlg, aka Laurent Gérard, and La Chimie in concert at Magasin 4 in Brussels in May 2021, with Vica Pacheco, Johann Mazé, and Marie Nachury. In 2019, he started the composition of a series of sound paintings around the multiple states of being which constitutes the album "Dans le Salon du Nous" which was released on November 2021 on the Belgian label Vlek. Finally a revival of the french langage songs' style! Èlg is also part of the trio Orgue Agnés that we particularly appreciate, as well Reines d'Angleterre with our friend Tazartés. He also wrote a subtle music for the very poetic film "Les Particules". To listen with pleasure and to follow definitively. Raw energy, between atypical music, oblique spoken word, incantations from elsewhere and pataphysical choir.

 

A écouter avec plaisir et à suivre définitivement. Energie brute, entre musique de traverse, spoken word oblique et trou de vers à pistons, incantations d'ailleurs et chorale pataphysique.

 

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Coups de coeur

 

 

A écouter quelques-uns de nos derniers coups de cœur découverts pendant l'année 2021, avec ces artistes tous singuliers musicalement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ernest Bergez aka Sourdure (aussi 1/3 du groupe Orgue Agnés entre autres collaborations) sur le label Murailles Music et son album "De Mòrt Viva" construit comme un jeu de tarot inventé, explorant l’idée d’un paganisme contemporain en dix odes jubilatoires, humoristiques et spirituelles. Le tout avec des paroles en occitan auvergnat.

"...avec du violon, du chant, mais aussi des expérimentations électro, des percus, et même des instruments anciens. C’est de l’invention totale !" E.B.  

 

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Le musicien autodidacte Thomas Bonvallet aka L'Ocelle Mare et son dernier disque "Sans Chemin"  avec son instrumentarium composite.

 

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L'artiste libanais  Raed Yassin et son dernier opus "Archeophony"

 

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Le DJ Muqata'a, musicien radical basé à Ramallah (Palestine) et son 5éme album "Kamil Manqus"  qui combine électronique, sons de radio, percussions et fieldworks.

 

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Orawa

 

Wojciech Kilar (1932 - 2013) est un compositeur polonais contemporain de Henryk Górecki et Krzysztof Penderecki avec qui il représente une certaine forme d'avant-garde musicale polonaise dans les années 60. 

En dehors de symphonies, de musiques de chambre et de pièces vocales, il compose un grand nombre de musiques pour des films de réalisateurs tels que Krzystof Zanussi, Francis Ford Coppola, James Gray, Jane Campion, Paul Grimault, Andrzej Wajda et Roman Polanski. 

Ici, la pièce "Orawa", poème symphonique  de 1986 pour un ensemble de cordes. C'est une composition qui fait référence à la musique Podhale contenant des styles vocaux traditionnels . Plusieurs arrangements sont ainsi établis pour quatuor à cordes, pour douze saxophones ou huit violoncelles, mais aussi pour un trio d'accordéons, dont l'excellente version par le Motion Trio à écouter ici.

 

Enregistré pour la radio BBC 3 et commissionné par le Manchester Collective

 

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Evelina Petrova

 

 Evelina Petrova was born in an industrial city close to St. Petersburg. Her grand mother forced Evelina to study music in a local music school where she took up accordion at the age of twelve. She now blends Russian folk music, classical and quite avant-garde improvised music in her playing. There are also elements of Jewish Kletzmer tradition and East-European brass music in it. The accordion in her hands is sometimes a percussion instrument and sometime one can hear pure, technically excellent accordion music. Her voice is her second instrument.

 She collaborates with other musicians as Iva Bittova, Phil Milton, Alexander Balanescu and his String Quartet, and many others and with the film directors Alexander Sokurov and Svetlana Proskurina.

 

 

 

 

I strongly recommend  the 2007's album with Alexander Balanescu titled "Upside down". 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"... in Romanian violinist Alexander Balanescu she has proved that wait was worthwhile: his contributions to her music are at once subtle and powerful, his swooping, earnest, occasionally almost ethereal violin providing a highly effective contrast to the more ‘human’ sounds of her instrument, in either its rhythm-section role or in solo flights..." in The Vortex

"The album title intimates a musical approach that defies the norm. In effect, they effortlessly merge Russian-folk with jazz improvisation and the classical element, while venturing into a rather opaque, avant-garde realm. The duo also treks into the free jazz vicinity, yet occasionally tempers the variable flows with lighthearted jazz and chamber-esque motifs. Simply stated, hearing is believing." Glenn Astarita for “All about jazz”

"Taming of a Buterfly"

 

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Cage & Tudor - 1963

The famous lecture/performance of John Cage with David Tudor
in Germany, in january 1963,

"Musik Im Technischen Zeitalter"

 with a patient and intrigated audience, who reacted largely with incomprehension.

The purpose was indeterminacy, chance, change and new aspects of music
with new technicals ways and tools for creative process.

In the winter of 1962–63 the writer on music and supporter of contemporary music Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt, professor at the Technische Universität in Berlin, ran the international lecture series Musik im technischen Zeitalter. John Cage was invited to give a lecture with musical examples. He transformed the live broadcast into a performance of, in Stuckenschmidt’s words, “methods of surprise and terror” determined by chance operations, in which he and the pianist and composer David Tudor performed two compositions by Cage (Variations II, 1961, and Fontana Mix, 1958) simultaneously.


Filmed by the former German public television broadcaster SFB in West Berlin.


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Cassiber 1982

A very early concert of  the avant-garde group Cassiber, one of my very respectfull band from these 80s.
with Heiner Goebbels, keyboards,
Chris Cutler (from Henry Cow) on drums,
Alfred Harth on sax
& the amazing voice and devices of Christoph Anders.

"...Cassiber (1982/1992) managed to fuse materials and attitudes drawn from experimental rock, fringe jazz, punk, pop, plunderphonics, improvisation, close structure and musique concrete with an energetic and complex form of studio (and then concert) composition that was unique in its combination of diverse experimental approaches to form with a risky, emotional and expressive mode of execution..."

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