AP’STROPHE
“Corgroc”

“Ferran Fages: Acoustic guitar. Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga: zither. ap’strophe is the duo of Ferran Fages and Dimitra Lazaridou Chatzigoga. They began working together in 2006, when Ferran Fages recorded “Cançons per a un lent retard”, where Dimitra Lazaridou Chatzigoga collaborated in the track Paraula clau, which they composed and interpreted together. After recording the album they realized the impossibility of re-interpreting this piece, which is based on the detuning(s) of the guitar, but they decided to continue working together and started to search for a common sonoric space. The result of this survey gave shape to their present collaboration, which consists of a duo of acoustic guitar and zither. With their music they investigate the perception of the distinctive timbre of the guitar and the zither alongside the differences and similarities of their string instruments. Their approximation combines the acoustic with the electronic in the sense that they employ frequencies produced by their acoustic notes together with sounds produced by electronic means. Their first album ‘objects sense objectes’ has been released in Etude Records in May 2009”. “Barcelona-based Ferran Fages is known both for his lyrical acoustic guitar playing (on solo discs such as Cancons a per un Lent Retard and Al Voltant d’un Para/’lel) and for hard-edged electronics (with groups such as Cremaster and Octante). His work in ap’strophe is an intriguing combination of these two sides of his music: there is plenty of resonant acoustic playing, but this is set against both the zither of Athens-based Dimitra Lazaridou Chatzigoga, and both players’ sometimes harsh electronic extensions of their instruments’ timbres.”