The Possibility Of A New Work For Aquaserge

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John Fenton Lush jazz harmonies and a fabulous arrangement Favorite track: Un grand sommeil noir.

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1.	Un grand sommeil noir 04:28	buy track
2.	1768°C ( à Edgar Varèse) 07:04	buy track
3.	Hommage à Giacinto Scelsi 06:29	buy track
4.	Only 01:16	buy track
5.	Comme des carrés de Feldman 05:11	buy track
6.	Only (version 2) 01:36	buy track
7.	Nuit Terrestre (à Gyorgy Ligeti) 10:02	buy track
8.	Nuit Altérée (à Gyorgy Ligeti) 02:38	buy track

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Always ready to expand their scope and blur the genre borders, the inventive, revered French avant-rock band have decided to tackle the field of contemporary classical music from the mid-20th century, in a special project which pays tribute to four major atypical figures: Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), György Ligeti (1923-2006), Edgard Varèse (1883-1965) and Morton Feldman (1926-1987).

Drawing inspiration from these composers’ respective approaches in terms of dynamics, sonic textures and duration, more specifically from Scelsi’s exploration of timbres and oscillations, Ligeti’s moving clusters, Varèse’s melodic cubism and Feldman-type graphic scores, Aquaserge have approached this album with a mixture of raw intuition and strict method, and have created pieces for a hybrid, semi-classical and semi-rock expanded 9-piece line-up.

The album revolves around three slow, extended, spacious pieces, in which the instruments’ timbres are merging into one another to create a fascinating sonic matter, both immobile and moving, like in certain works by Ligeti and Scelsi. By contrast, Aquaserge’s tributes to Varèse and Feldman include explosive moments, as well as segments of wild improv. These original Aquaserge compositions are completed by interpretations of three rare songs written by Edgard Varèse (on a poem by Verlaine) and Morton Feldman (on a Rilke text), which remind us of Aquaserge’s taste for melodies.

These pieces and some others will be performed as part of a musical and theatrical show entitled The Possibility of a New Work for Aquaserge - Lost in a Guitar Case.

The album is being released as part of Made To Measure, Crammed Discs’ legendary composers’ series, which is being reactivated in 2021. AQUASERGE The Possibility of a New Work for Aquaserge
MTM Vol. 46 (LP, CD, digital) out October 15th on Crammed Discs

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aquaserge France

Aquaserge’s resolutely polymorphous music draws from sources as diverse as pop, free jazz, psych, noise, experimental rock from the 1960s and 70s (think kraut to Canterbury to ZNR et al), vintage Italian & French film music, all ingested and playfully transmuted into their own, unique, cinematographic sound. ... more

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