Transcendental and exceptional improvisation in the 2nd release from the Fenetre Ovale project, with composer Karl Naegelen and improvisers Eve Risser (piano) and Joris Ruhl (clarinet), expanded with the arrival of percussionist Toma Gouband and violinist Amaryllis Billet.
Label: Umlaut Records Catalog ID: umfr-cd20 Squidco Product Code: 22592
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2016 Country: Sweden / France / Germany Packaging: Digipack Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 recorded at Studio 106 of Radio France for Anne MontaronŐs show Alla Breve.
Tracks 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 recorded at Conservatoire Departemental de Grand Couronne by Ananda Cherer.
"We are happy to present the second part of the Fenetre Ovale project. After a fist well-received record which brought together composer Karl Naegelen and improvisers Eve Risser and Joris Ruhl, the group expands with the arrival of percussionist Toma Gouband and violinist Amaryllis Billet. Thanks to these new sound possibilities, the musicians on this new volume extend and deepen their meticulous quest for an acoustic alchimy, changing a violin, clarinet, piano and percussion into a starling's flight, fluid mechanics, a troglodyte temple, gold, or lead. Mystical, trivial, finely carved, the music takes shape through the tension between the strict precision of writing and the exciting fragility of the musicians' playing, which Karl Naegelen carefully included in his partition. Among the twelve tracks featured on this project, five miniatures form a coherent subset, initiated by a request by France Musique' radio show Alla Breve."-Umlaut