Merging France's Nautilis Ensemble with musicians from Chicago created this large improvising orchestra, here in a new suite composed by Rob Mazurek and dedicated to Great Lake Michigan and the devestation of thousands of shipwrecks over many centuries, using historical data, first hand accounts of shipwrecks off both shores, magical realism and steampunk aesthetics.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2017 Country: Austria Packaging: Digipack - 3 panel with attached booklet Recorded live at Quartz, Scene Nationale de Brest, France, on October 13th, 2015. and October 16th, 2015, at La Dynamo de Banlieues Bleues, Pantin, France by Sylvain Thevenard.
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"All members of the Third Coast Ensemble tread along restless shores, always singular and often impenetrable. The orchestra is born from the meeting of musicians from Chicago, in the United States, with those of the Nautilis Ensemble based in Brest, France. On one side, the shores of the vast Lake Michigan, also called the "Third Coast of the United States"; on the other, the wild surroundings of the Finistere and the North Atlantic. Common collective imaginations, then. A few stories of ships swallowed up by the stormy waters of the lake and the ocean, so close after all, off the coast of Chicago and Brest, even elsewhere, inspired WRECKS. Alexandre Pierrepont told (us) with great ardor of these shipwrecks and added to those his own digression, "Loyalty Islands" - tales which have traced subliminal lines for Rob Mazurek's compositions and each and everyone's improvisations."-RogueArt
Includes a 30 page booklet of text in French and English from Alexandre Pierrepont