- Improvised music
- Avant-garde
- Experimentalism
- Electro-acoustic
- Live
- Conceptual
Comment: this
bunch of 5 compositions is not a usual way for defining his/her own
oeuvre. Indeed, the French composer Brice Catherin's music is being
far away from an average pop album, far away from an average pop jazz
issue either. It is a tight improvisation by exploiting magnified
cello chords, droning melodica spans, storytelling, windbells,
intense drumming. The description can be attributed to the
chronologically second part of the issue dedicated to Baubo, the
mystical goddess of fertility and performed live by the Norwegian
Pinquins in Oslo. The first part being inspired by a Russian composer
of classical music, (Galina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya), rotates mentally
and physically around one piano being played by three pianists and
two percussion players though they use their voices as well (Ensemble
Batida). Musically it is an affair between tumultuous progressions
and sonic clusters and on the other side by silent, as if still life
incantations. This is the fifth issue by Brice Catherin on Chicago, the US-based Pan Y Rosas Discos.
