Carol Robinson - The Weather Pieces
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Label: Mode
Cat No: MODCD333
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 3rd November 2023
Contents
Artists
Carol Robinson (basset horn)Charlotte Testu (double bass)
Serge Teyssot-Gay (electric guitar)
Carl Faia (computer music design)
Works
The Weather PiecesArtists
Carol Robinson (basset horn)Charlotte Testu (double bass)
Serge Teyssot-Gay (electric guitar)
Carl Faia (computer music design)
About
Les si doux redoux for basset horn grew out of an idiomatic French expression. Sometimes, during the harshest winters, there are moments of sudden warmth, strangely mild days that are called redoux in French. Les si doux redoux explores discrete changes in the acoustic field, alternating between icy high notes and lower, more tender sounds. It evokes the movement from a static rigid cold, to a warmer, more relaxed and supple state. Unlike the other compositions on this recording, Les si doux redoux is never violent, but like them, is related to personal perception.
Black on Green explores the power of the elements which fascinates us, sometimes leaving an imprint of internalised terror. It grew out of the composer’s recollections of childhood in South Dakota, remembering how the sky would sometimes turn green. Against this murky background, small black clouds would skitter by. This ominous sky became the theatre for tornados and supercell storms, as all sorts of energy seemed to come together in a vast whirling motion. Nothing could be done to stop the progression. A person was either lucky and the destruction passed elsewhere, or not.
Robinson was inspired to write Nacarat, a long virtuosic piece, for guitarist Serge Teyssot-Gay after playing with him for many years. As a rock musician who had always created his own music, he had never experienced this way of working, namely, having someone else write for him. This time Robinson imagined a fantastical hurricane filled with colours. The guitarist moves through a violent mass of sound, gradually reaching the absolute calm of the eye, before being pulled into an increasingly turbulent vortex.
All are first recordings.
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