Stefano Battaglia / Michele Rabbia: Pastorale

premiera polska: 2010-01-29
kontynent: Europa
kraj: Włochy
opakowanie: plastikowe etui
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Editor's Info:
In this beautiful duo album by two of Italy's most creative musicians, roles are frequently overturned, as lyrical percussion shades into electronics and texture turns to melody. Stefano Battaglia reminds us that the piano is also a percussion instrument and Michele Rabbia is sensitive to all the tonal implications of drums and cymbals. The musicians play with and without scores in material that is variously open-form, tightly-controlled, inspired by folk idioms, by liturgical music and by art installations. Battaglia allows beautiful themes to ripple through the work, and sounds are given room to blossom. Duets for piano and percussion have long represented an important zone in the work of Stefano Battaglia (in the early 1990s, he collaborated with both Tony Oxley and Pierre Favre). Since 2000, Michele Rabbia has been Battaglia's principal percussionist, appearing on both of his previous ECM releases - "Raccolto" and "Re: Pasolini" - as an ensemble member and fellow improviser. On "Pastorale" the musicians shape the music together.


muzycy:
Stefano Battaglia piano, prepared piano
Michele Rabbia percussion, electronics

utwory:
Antifona libera (a Enzo Bianchi)
Metaphysical Consolations
Monasterium
Oracle
Kursk Requiem
Cantar del alma
Spirits of Myths
Pastorale
Sundance in Balkh
Tanztheater (in memory of Pina Bausch)
Vessel of Magic

wydano: 2010
nagrano: Recorded September 2008
more info: www.ecmrecords.com