Today, I’d like to introduce you to Gaspar Claus, a French cellist out of Paris, who has a number of collaborations, performing appearances, and soundtrack work under his belt (some names include Bryce Dessner, Sufjan Stevens, Jim O’Rourke, and Ryuichi Sakamoto), with the upcoming Tancade being his first solo album. I have covered plenty of music featuring the cello as the main instrument, and I can’t seem to get enough of its low, raspy textures, deep melancholy sighs, and soft fluttering sails. I do love the violin, but the cello still holds a very special place among the favourite timbres of my mind. And so the music from Tancade hits the spot, with the cello being the only instrument on the entire album, layered, processed, and orchestrated to sound as if numerous Claus clones are spinning a complex braid of sound all at once. On the first single of the record, which I am happily premiering for you today, the instrument is “rubbed with a bow, plucked, brushed, bumped, caressed, jostled, and transfigured,” for all its “rich harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic potential,” but even if you don’t zoom in on the technicalities, it is a piece of music that sounds grand. “Une Foule,” which means “a crowd,” refers to the “wild and marvellous parties that take place at ‘Tancade’, a small and difficult to access cove.” 

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Tancade

Une Foule

TRACK PREMIERE : Gaspar Claus - Une Foule

Behold! I Make All Things New

What Hearts Must Bleed, What Tears Must Fall

I Would Like

Jozef Van Wissem - Our Hearts Condemn Us (Only Lovers Left Alive)

Deeptoughts

Simple Song # 3 - Sumi Jo ( Youth Soundtrack )

Accordeon maestro Mario Batkovic performed at Le Guess Who? 2017, as part of the program curated by James Holden.

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It's kind of funny how one of Mario Batkovic's most well-known pieces is called Restrictus, as ‘restricting’ is quite the opposite of his enthralling mastery of the accordion. The Switzerland-based, Bosnia-born musician reaches a vast musical range with his instrument, rivalling the great minimalist composers of our modern age.

Recorded by Marc Broer at Le Guess Who? 2017 on Saturday, 11 November. Recordings made in cooperation with VPRO / Vrije Geluiden: https://www.vpro.nl/vrije-geluiden/lees/festivals/lgw/2017.html

Photography by Melanie Marsman.
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Mario Batkovic - Quatere

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Concert de Tigran Hamasyan à la Sapinière

The Spinners - Tigran Hamasyan

JOZEF VAN WISSEM
NIHIL OBSTAT

IMPREC379   LP/CD

RELEASE DATE:  28 MAY 2013

“Gorgeous new full length from Dutch lutenist Jozef Van Wissem. Wissem's long form, graceful melodic lute layers, preceded by suspenseful deep bass movements, create a transcendental and pastoral. Wissem's is a world where hypnotic minimalist figures are repeated to slow the act of listening.”

"How you must have suffered" by Jozef Van Wissem IMPREC379

The Hamrahlíð Choir -  Cosmogony

A Celebration of Sound in Utrecht, Netherlands.

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