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Agnel, Sophie

Song

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UPC: 5904224873813

Label: Relative Pitch
Catalog ID: RPR1217
Squidco Product Code: 36114

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded at Instants Chavires, in Seine-Saint-Denis, France, in 2022 and 2024, by Benjamin Pagier.

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"Here, the obstinate metamorphoses of the keyboard call forth the monstrous organicity of the glowing steel in the instrument's belly. Despite the modernity of its very conception, the work reveals itself like a private photo album, a wordless story in which moments of life follow one another, where feelings pass through the generations. Captured during sessions at Instants Chavires in Montreuil, a venue with which Sophie has enjoyed a long-standing complicity, this "song" is a poem, or rather, a book of poems whose dramatic construction is so addictive that you can't help but turn the pages."-Joel Pagier

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"If it's in Paris that Sophie Agnel was born in 1964, it is towards other sounding islands in the heart of a reinvented temporality that she dwells today, at the stern of a grand piano, an instrument that she turns into a real living & vibrating organism.

Classically trained, escaped from jazz (drawn away by the too strict treatment of harmony), Sophie Agnel boards the piano from every sonic angle this musical vessel can offer : keys, strings & board are simultaneously apprehended, in a mixed procedure (as we say of painting techniques) that would be understated if it was reduced to the cagian definition of the prepared piano. Considering the instrument - that she extends with several accessories, paper cups, balls or strings - as a poetic supplier of anamorphic textures, the musician takes it to be an equal match to the wider diversity of musical systems, whatever the craft they where conceived in (from physiological to electro-acoustic) ...

We would then no longer be surprised to notice her understandings with Michel Doneda and to find her to the side of the wet saxophone of Alessandro Bosetti, of the acoustified electric guitar of Olivier Benoit, of the voices of Catherine Jauniaux and Phil Minton, or the keyboard of Christine Wodraska...

The same seal of esthetic evidence marks all of her musical companionships, with this same taste, beyond the narrative, for the delicate sonic quests and blossoming of dimensions to which the auditor takes part through an active listening : in the heart of Jean Pallandre's phonographic worlds, of Jerôme Noetinger & Lionel Marchetti's small scale cinema, John Butcher or Axel Dörner's crimpy tissues, by the lovely machines of Erik M or Ikue Mori, the harmonico-stratospheric rustling of Stéphane Rives...

The originality of the research conducted by Sophie Agnel today leads her to develop, in solo or with significantly chosen companions, a most refined and highly poetic approach to sound that makes each of her concerts a moving construction filled with chiseled musical gestures, a soft and sumptuous irradiation."-Guillaume Tarche

-Sophie Agnel Website (http://sophieagnel.free.fr/biographie.html)
4/30/2025

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Track Listing:

1. Song 1 8:14

2. Song 2 3:56

3. Song 3 3:56

4. Song 4 11:17

5. Song 5 2:09

6. Song 6 5:53

7. Song 7 5:42

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