Bruno Angelini .Piano, compositions Régis Huby .Violin, tenor violin, electronics CLAUDE TCHAMITCHIAN .Double bass Edward Perraud .Drums, percussions
description - Open Land Quartet -
A musical journey inspired by minimalist poets from around the world.
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" Poetry has been with me for a long time. I am more and more sensitive to minimalist poetry : airy, often anchored in the present, rather allusive than metaphysical ; a mirror directed towards our daily life, as well as towards the nature which surrounds us, in order to help us become aware of their beauty.
These poems also invite me to cultivate my inner world, rather than seeking furtive happiness through consumption, or gesticulation. By extrapolation, I feel they are also aligned with my civic thoughts : savoring, caring for nature ; rethinking our needs and engaging in a process of degrowth, in order to preserve the earth and share equitably with those in most need.
It is for all these reasons that I have decided to dedicate my next musical creation to poets from all over the world such as Ada Mondès, William Carlos Williams, Chandak Chattarji, Lydia Vadkerti-Gavornikova, Jacob Nibénegesabe.
My compositions will not fit necessarily into ‘musical minimalism’, except that I like space, silences, favor listening to timbres and resonances, writing sometimes refined melodies. They will be mainly oriented towards a harmonic language derived from contemporary music, sometimes associated with rubato movements, sometimes with more complex rhythmic signatures, favoring the mixture of different speeds, played simultaneously by the members of the orchestra.
I feel like the music I write has been constantly changing and evolving for years, in directions I couldn't have anticipated ; topics that affect me as well.
The orchestra that I formed in 2014 with Claude Tchamitchian, Régis Huby, Edward Perraud, accompanies these developments as if this quartet were the ideal extension of the expression of my artistic intimacy. Therefore I am calling on them for a third opus so that they invest in this project, the subject of which is very close to their sensitivity as well as their commitments as citizens." (Bruno Angelini)
This project is really part of the continuation of the two previous albums of this quartet, released under the same Label, both in its quality of writing and in the interpretation. Time and space stretch to give the necessary weight to each note, each pulsation. The silences are rich, nourished and thought. A music so powerful and so refined at the same time makes this music an exception.
Recorded, mixed and mastered, Studios La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines, France
Recorded June 7,8,9 2021 and mixed May 2022 by Gérard de Haro assisted by Matteo Fontaine
Mastered at La Buissonne Mastering Studio by Nicolas Baillard
Steinway Grand piano prepared and tuned by « The great » Sylvain Charles
Produced by Gérard de Haro and RJAL for La Buissonne label & by Solange
Cover photo by Edward Perraud
Graphics by Roman Gigou
Thank you so much to Régis, Claude and Edward for their fantastic playing, involvement, confidence, and playing.
Special thanks to Edward for his marvelous cover photo.
Thank you so much also to Gérard, our beloved sound engineer, producer, friend, fifth man of this adventure.
Thank you to Matteo Fontaine, Nicolas Baillard, Sylvie de Haro, Sylvain Charles, Philippe Ghielmetti for the quality of their work.
Special thanks to Solange team: Héléna Pichon and Rosa Ferreira and to all my family.
Thank you for their support to the "deux pièces cuisine" from Le Blanc-Mesnil and to Sophie Gastine, Pierre Fisher and all the team from "Le Comptoir" at Fontenay sous bois.
This record is dedicated to the memory of my beloved stepfather Guy Semeilhon
The Label Thanks Marc Thouvenot, Philippe Ghielmetti, Sylvie de Haro and RJAL, Manfred Eicher, Michael Schmitt and all ECM Records team
Régis Huby plays an Bruno Dreux acoustic violin, an Frédéric Pons (Kopo) electroacoustic violin , an Olivier Pont electric violin and a Paul Borie bow
Distributed by PIAS (France)
Marketed in cooperation with ECM records • www.ecmrecords.com
