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TRIO SONATA: FRAGMENTS

For Baroque Violin, Baroque Viola, Double-Bass and Electronic patch

Duration: 10 minutes

Commissioned by: Forte Festival Cork

I had been mucking around for ages with a Max MSP patch which is constantly recording the sound into a buffer and then randomly re-plays fragments of it in different speeds and pitches at times generated by random numbers. It made me start to wonder how it would work with string instruments, which were also playing Fragments.

So I started to think a lot about the world of ‘early music’ or ‘baroque’ that I am so involved with, and some people’s rather conservative take that we must play the music in an ‘authentic’ way - when actually all we have are fragments, of scores, letters and instruments - so we don't know much more about authenticity than that.

I wrote a Trio Sonata that uses fragments - each player gets 8 fragments. The bass player plays through all 8 in order. The other two can choose when and where they play them, only playing the number they are on, or ones before that. The bass player chooses how long to keep repeating their fragment, before initiating a general pause. The max patch is listening and responding. Gradually we get to see a much more rich picture of life, as the fragments all around us intertwine and reiterate what each other is saying. 

Trio Sonata -Fragments

written by Leonard Cohen
released 30.06.17

Nadine Khouri: vocals, electric guitar
J Allen: BVs, organ
Basia Bartz: violin
Adam Beattie: BVs, nylon string guitar, bass
Al Weatherhead: mellotron 

recorded in London by Adam Durbridge
mixed by Alan Weatherhead

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Bird On the Wire (Leonard Cohen cover)

https://soundcloud.com/strapontin
https://soundcloud.com/saschafunkeofficial
https://soundcloud.com/invisible-inc
Buy Release: https://strapontin.bandcamp.com/album/eunuque
YouTube Stream: https://youtu.be/0eZBcGs6wQo

This record has a history, a very interesting one! Our DJs spin this track since 2018. Released on VERY LIMITED 300 run of single vinyl EP will be a collector's item that raises prices in Discogs in no time. Be quick to grab it.
Three years in the making only to be held up almost another year due to COVID, finally now seeing the light of day is this brooding monster of an EP by Brussels based Strapontin, aka multi-disciplinary artist Patrick Belmont.

Clocking in at over 35-minutes the record is almost album length and spans a multitude of depths and moods with elements of techno, new wave, rock 'n' roll, house and tribal…...all glued together with a sleazy atmosphere reminiscent of the electronic body music pioneered by Strapontin’s Belgian forefathers Front 242 and their German peers DAF.

Add to this a heads-down-no-nonsense darkroom beast of a remix by techno maestro Sascha Funke and the package is complete.

Strapontin provides us with some insight:
“It started with a desire to move away a bit from my 'dancefloor' side and go into more undefined fields, I wanted to work with blurry sensations that I can't understand. I like mixed feelings. Dramatex 300 is made of that ambivalent mood. The voice is saying 'I'm feeling empty' and 'I'm feeling healthy' at the same time. I like that paradox. Eunuque is a song but is also a character I will develop in a short movie (which will act as the 'music video' of the song). The Eunuque is a character full of anger yet he doesn't want to fight nor has he a target to aim at. A restrained aggressivity is boiling inside him/it that has no opportunity to escape from the body and gain release. The song is the fever he feels from these inner battles. I think Le Bain d'Huile and Anti-sceptical have the same slow and angry feeling. I'm proud of these tracks because they are a bit mysterious to me and it feels like they controlled me more than I controlled them.”

Tracklist: 

1. Eunuque
2. Eunuque (Sascha Funke Remix)
3. Anti-Sceptical
4. Dramatex 300
5. Le Bain d'Huile

Eunuque

Eunuche (Sascha Funke Remix)

PREMIERE: Strapontin - Eunuque (Sascha Funke Remix) [Invisible Inc.]

I release records as plain and simple 'Adrian Crowley' 
You'll find *mostly* home recorded, rare and/or unreleased material here...demos, cover versions and other wonky chips that don't or didn't appear on my official records.

I'm new to this place so I've probably done it all wrong. 

Thank you for listening.
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