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Gareth DAVIS & MACHINEFABRIEK
“Standards (Of Sorts)”
Standards (of Sorts) takes the most simple idea of the Jazz Standard, of improvising on a given theme, and puts this in a new perspective.
Using both 'standards' and how we can 'misremember' as starting concepts, rather than dive into the Great American Songbook, Gareth Davis and Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek) chose to use pieces of contemporary classical music as the material for their point of departure.
Tiny fragments of a few notes, sometimes misremembered, from various works, became the starting sounds to create something new. Five new pieces that explore not the idea of taking a theme and making a variation but rather remembering an idea and creating something out of that memory.
Clarinet and bass clarinet by Gareth Davis
Recorded between 2018 and 2020
Electronics and editing by Rutger Zuydervelt
11,00€
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Rutger ZUYDERVELT & Bruno DUPLANT
“Synchronicité”
"Bruno Duplant's collaborations come in two forms. As a composer, he sends a letter that doubles as a score, and looks forward to hearing what the recipient makes of his missive. As a musician, he is a true drone whisperer, capable of coaxing endless variety from elongated organ chords. That's exactly what he does to marvelous effect on Synchronicite, playing long tones that swell, loom and fade. Zuydervelt's contrasting contributions are strikingly animalistic, ranging from throaty purrs to repetitive, cricket-like chirrups. How he made them is not clear, but the effect they have is to open the windows of Duplant's virtual cathedral and let some wildlife in."
Bill Meyer, The Wire, May 2022.
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This music can smuggle you to a dark park at night or a frosty forest in the morning, providing both comfort and anxiety. You shift to another time zone and bite into the sounds. The sounds you hear, tremble like warm air above cold sand.
It may sound both comforting and ominously dystopian at the same time, but it always holds a mysterious freshness, like traces and echoes of something fleeting and barely noticeable...
Organ by Bruno Duplant
Electronics by Rutger Zuydervelt
11,00€