Description
Aquaserge n’est décidément un groupe pas comme les autres, chaque albums s’affranchissant des contraintes et des modes, des styles et des attentes. Avec The Possibility Of A New Work For Aquaserge, le groupe à géométrie variable fait se conjuguer les genres avec intelligence, rependant quatre compositeurs majeurs du XXème siècle, György Ligeti, Giacinto Scelsi, Edgar Varèse et Morton Feldman, pour les transposer dans un XXIème sans frontière qui voit la musique contemporaine se muter en pop contagieuse au groove venimeux.
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BIO :
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
