Instrumental version of "In Sacred Silence", which I wrote for a choreography by Ivan Schauvliege

Beautiful performance by Europa Ritrovata:

Matteo Gemolo - traverso
Justyna Novakovic - traverso
Neepa Acharya - alto
Fredrik Hildebrand - viola da gamba tenor

Recording, mixing, editing & sound design: Enrico Pigozzi

In Sacred Silence - Instrumental - Europa Ritrovata

This track is made out from different sounds I recorded in Parisian RER C (kind of a mix between a metro and a suburban train). I spent 10-15 minutes blocked in a broken train near Gare d'Austerlitz, and the train was producing amazing sounds as if it was crying, lamenting about its difficult life. At the same time, an indian woman was singing for money in this train, I actually used her voice treated with some posteffects in this track. I also used a recording of a sitar I made while I was travelling in Lyon, France. I spent 2 hours in Pick&Bosch musical shop recording different exotic instruments and I picked up this sitar sound to fit it with the train's lament. 

Lamentation du RER C (broken train lament)

Born in Belgium, near the waves of the North Sea.
(Ex-)Composer of poetic and intimate sounds.
(Ex-)Singer of Renaissance Polyphony.
Sometimes those worlds intertwined.

In Sacred Silence - Instrumental - Europa Ritrovata

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