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Release Date Friday 21st March 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
TRACKLIST
01.FRANÇOIS J. BONNET ‘Banshee’ (21:38)
02.SARAH DAVACHI ‘Brasse Brevis’ (18:11)
FRANÇOIS J. BONNET ‘BANSHEE’
(21:38)
Banshee is an ear directed towards the edges of the old world, where these infinite fines terrae cut and fractalize into coasts, harbours, fjords, peninsulas and archipelagos. Drawing its raw material from recordings made in the Inner Hebrides, Banshee tightly weaves a fabric where the sonic avatars of fauna, flora and climate merge with the human presence, its tools and its culture. Thus, a small boat cleaving through a loch becomes the voice of the mountains and wilderness, and the howling of the wind on the moors becomes the lament of a Banshee, harbinger of death, messenger of the Other World.
The piece unfolds in seven interwoven moments:
I Subharmonics (An Uaimh Bhinn)
II Seabirds & fiddle (Rubha na h-Eist)
III Impacts & Melancholy (Bodach an Stòrr)
IV Spectre (Quiraing)
V Cailleachan / Corryvreckan
VI Distance (Loch Bracadail)
VII Banshees
SARAH DAVACHI ‘BASSE BREVIS’
(18:11)
Co-commissioned by Radio France and INA grm, Basse Brevis by Canadian composer Sarah Davachi was premiered at the Présences 2024 festival, which was dedicated to Steve Reich. Drawing on her own minimalist approach, Sarah Davachi explores, with extreme care, the weavings and complex relationships between the timbral, spatial and durational components of music. Using developments that can be appreciated over time, the composer manages to create music that is extremely precise, subtle and lively. But what is striking, and particularly evident in Basse Brevis, is that such an approach, both abstract and restrained, is nonetheless at times utterly poignant. The work combines moments of formal exploration with moments of pure emotion in a perfectly mastered fashion, creating a gentle tension as it swings between two modes of listening that navigate indecisively within both instrumental and concrete approaches, tracing, in parallel, a diagonal of sound that unfolds around perception, sensation and feeling.
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