Combining folk and ethnic rhythms in traditional popular forms, the Trio La Soustraction of des Fleurs of Jean-Francois Vrod on violin & voice, Frederic Aurier on violin & voice, and Sylvain Lemetre on zarb & voice focuses on the music of the mountains of the Massif Central, melodic music with unique timbres, forms, pre-texts, and a richly complex set of musical objects.
Label: Umlaut Records Catalog ID: UMFR-CD2425 Squidco Product Code: 26062
Format: 2 CDs Condition: New Released: 2018 Country: Sweden / France / Germany Packaging: Cardstock 4 page foldover CD1 recorded in Fresnes, Paris, France, in 2006, by Jean-Francois Vrod.
CD2 recorded in Domaine De La Chaux, France, in 2017.
"Upstream downstream flows the music that will be heard here. Rolling her song to the rhythm of the slopes of the gentle mountain, she bumps into large volcanic rocks, enriches land and humus, and travels some flowers torn from the spring banks. This music that remembers (the oral traditions of the central massif were long frequented) also tastes the delights of writing and finally, in the moment and the joy of the waterfall, improvised.
"In the mountains, the throat is free" (Franz Kafka)
From downstream upstream or upstream downstream, the ear will surprise some fleeting musical correspondences allowing to reveal what one could call: "the intimate machinery" of the trio The Subtraction of the Flowers."-Umlaut (via Google translate)
"Popular traditions are our playground, but what do we have to say, 25 years after our first collections in the mountains of the Massif Central?
If the faithful reinterpretation of the melodic figure seemed to us an unavoidable and unfinished step today, we will attempt here, in a cubist manner, to show the various aspects of a musical object in a single plane, to express it. essence, the senses.For what the popular tradition suggests is not just a collection of pretty melodies, but everything else: timbres, forms, pre-texts, in short, a complex set of musical objects. of all kinds, where sound, although addressed to the community, is first and foremost the business of the person who plays it.
Frédéric Aurier is a violinist curious about all repertoires. Sylvain Lemêtre, percussionist, practices with the same interest the written and oral music. I play the music of the Massif Central, I improvise.
So, with what we are, as others tell a dream, we will seek to show our vision of tradition that speaks of our reality, the one that Picasso evokes when he says: " What is most abstract is perhaps the height of reality" "-Trio La Soustraction of des Fleurs website (via Google translate)