Showing posts with label catalonia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label catalonia. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Pascal Comelade ~ Ragazzin' the Blues [G3G, 1991]



01 Patafisiskal Polska
02 Cafe, Copa, Puro
03 Neo-Realismo Del'Habanera
04 Midnight To Six Hands
05 A Glass Of Gaz
06 Return Of Johnny Guitar
07 4 Rroses Pour Marie
08 Valse De L'Aiguille Creuse
09 La Plaza D'Orient As Locus Solus
10 Waiting For Mister Motch On Beyrouth 66
11 Ava, In A Palindromic Garden
12 Patafisiskal Re-Polska



the arrangements & instrumentation on this album are more fleshed out than the compartively sparse Haïkus, but retain his singular style of repetitive melancholique simplicity in the most sublime way. nuff said. 320 remerciements à l'uploader d'origine. s'il vous plaît soutenir l'artiste

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Pascal Comelade ~ Haïkus de Pianos [1992]







Les Disques du Soleil et de l'Acier/Eva Records

01. Tango del Rosselló
02. Smoke on the Water
03. Egyptian Reggae
04. Let me try
05. Alifib
06. Rue des soeurs noires
07. Your labios as tulips
08. Put a straw under baby
09. C'era una volta il West
10. Love theme from Ben Hur
11. Mexican theme frome Rio Bravo
12. Nocturn, a Joan Salvat-Papasseit
13. Souvenir de Vernet-Les-Bains
14. The sad skinhead
15. Good-bye pork-pie hat
16. Greenlands
17. Abril 74
18. Valse de l'aiguille creuse
19. 4 Roses pour Marie
20. Marcha mora
21. Amarcord
22. I surrender
23. Besame mucho
24. 96 tears
25. Les humeurs



Pascal Paul Vincent Comelade [born June 30, 1955], is a French Catalan musician. Comelade born was in Montpellier, France. After living for several years in Barcelona, he made his first album, Fluence, influenced by electronic music and by the group Heldon. Subsequently, his music has become more acoustic and is characterised by the sounds of toy instruments, used as solo-instruments and as an integral part of the sound of his group, the Bel Canto Orquestra.

Each new album by Pascal Comelade is in itself a bit of an event. The man makes himself rare in France and is much more prolific in Catalonia, where he is considered to be an essential musician. In France, he is seldom mentioned in the media, and, in record shops, his music is often to be found in the film score section, with experimental music or even with world music. The last time he really got the attention of the critics was for his musical show Psicotic Music-Hall in 2002, a tribute to La Bodega Bohemia, a historical cabaret in Barcelona.

"I did a series of concerts in Tokyo in 1991 and played at the French-Japanese Institute. In the sixties, Yves Klein was there, giving French lessons in order to pay for his own judo lessons. My first record for DSA, 'Détail Monochrome' [1984] was - with its title and its cover [a monochrome blue one] - an involuntary tribute to Yves Klein. A second luck was that I found in Tokyo a toy piano from the same manufacturer of the piano which is in the CCAM Studio. With both pianos, I recorded 'Haïkus de pianos' as a special thank you to all the nice Japanese people I met in Tokyo." ~ pc

one of the most innovative french composers unfurls a sublimely short but super sweet set of unlikely covers & strong originals for grand & toy piano :) thoughtful sequencing & continuity demand repeated listening, with only about half the tunes featuring the prominent ticklin of toy ivories. 320 remerciements à l'uploader d'origine

Monday, July 12, 2010

VA - Cobles Catalanes ~ Enregistrements 78 tours 1920-30





SILEX MEMOIRE - Y225102 P. 1992
01 L'emporda
02 El cant dels Ocells
03 La Reina de les fleurs
04 La Unica [obligada de tible]
05 Per tu ploro
06 Joquines d'una Pastora
07 Devant de la Verge
08 L'arc de Sant Marti
09 Bona Festa
10 Escolte'm [obligada de tible]
11 La processo de Sant Bartomeu
12 El Saltiro de la cardina
13 Maria de les Trenes
14 Els Degotalls
15 Encisadora
16 Caquetage [valse pour tenora]
17 Sangre Morena [paso doble]
18 La scintillante [valse pour tenora]
19 Pescadors bons catalans
20 Juny
21 Sol Ixent
22 La noia alegre que no sap plorar
23 La Santa Espina



The 'cobla' is a uniquely Catalan wind band comprising 11 instrumentalists, which emerged at the same time as the new 'sardana' [circular, open dance], the Sardana Llarga [long sardana] during the second half of the 19th century. This transformation of Catalan music was born out of important movements of the time - the 'modernist' movement which accompanied the change from traditional, essentially rural, society to the modern, industrial society. The second was the Catalan Renaixenca concerned with linguistic conservation and political autonomy.

Old instruments such as the 'sac de gemecs' [bagpipes] and 'tarota' [rustic oboe] disappeared and were replaced in the 'cobla' by: the 'flabiol' [short wooden flute]; the 'tambori' [small drum]; two 'tible' [woodwind, similar to clarinet]; two 'tenora' [woodwind, similar to clarinet or oboe]; 2 trumpets; 1 trombone; 2 'fiscorn' [similar to small tuba] & 1 double bass.

This release compiles arkhival historic recordings by various bands first issued on 78rpm records between 1920 & 1930. sounds like somethin i heard in my childhood, but i can't trace time. 320 remerciements à mon cher frère espilos. plus