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l'écorce
chante la forêt | cs016
#1
l'écorce chante la forêt
#2 oort: un jardin doucement ratissé par les pertubations stellaires
#3 sleep, perchance to dream
Frédéric
Blondy piano
Jean-Sébastien
Mariage electric guitar
Dan
Warburton violin
Total Time 48:38©
2004
Recorded on 27 May
2001 in Paris
Cover design Carlos
Santos
Speaking
about "L'écorce chante la forêt" with the usual
discourse applied to the products of the "reductionist" school
would be unjust and unadequate, because we would be labelling its "truth"
in a delimitative way. The world in which this music is happening is not,
decidedly, the one of the new wave of the conceptual improvisation, even
if it's improvised and the musicians here reunited are improvisers. Dan
Warburton (violin), Jean-Sébastien Mariage (electric guitar) and
Frédéric Blondy (piano) improvise in this new and excellent
title of the Creative Sources Recordings catalogue what others compose
in the domains of the American and European "classical" contemporary
music. Several musical references come immediately to mind: Morton Feldman,
Helmut Lachenmann or Luciano Berio. Here, it doesn't matter to what degree
one economizes on sound or reduces the volume; it's a question of how
to do more with less. This music is about intensity, even density. And
we shouldn't be surprised at the title – if music was once the attempt
at human reproduction of Nature's music, before we invented our own mechanical,
electric and electronic sounds, we return here to the lost natural dimension
of the earth's murmurs. The wind agitating the leaves, very quietly, or
raindrops falling, or a small animal moving in the undergrowth, sound
accidents that don't distract us from a presence that lives in the majesty
of its silence, the internal life of all things. We even can smell the
forest, in a subtle synesthesia which is not cinematographic only because
it's made by the intimacy of our own visual and sensitive memories. A
beautiful work indeed.
Rui
Eduardo Paes |
