The Versailles Sessions

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The Versailles SessionsOpis:Review Murcof's debut, Martes, was an elegant work that married samples of Morton Feldman and Arvo Pärt to electronic beats. In the six or so years since, Mexican Fernando Corona has released a set of remixes, Utopia, and two more albums, Remembranza and Cosmos. With each work his palette has bee more sonorous, his soundscapes painted in lustrous shades of southern night and dark memories. Where Martes could be accused of being too deliberately appealing, the albums that succeeded it have sought and achieved greater depth.

The Versailles Sessions was written to acpany the annual festival of sound, light and water at the Chateau de Versailles. Specially recorded 17th century baroque instruments including harpsichord, viola da gamba and flute are the raw materials for Murcof's six positions. Wele to Versailles begins with crashes and the scraping of strings. After a succession of flute notes that stretch out over a cavernous space measured out by clanking sounds, drones ratchet up the tension. Murcof's positions are deliberately paced and stately in their unfolding. In their drawn-out notes, period instrumentation and echoing ambiences there's an eery hauntedness that resonates impressively. The jaunty lute of the finale Lully's Turquerie As Interpreted By An Advanced Script plays out against a murmuring backdrop and shows that hauntology isn't the sole preserve of the Ghost Box label.

Throughout, there's a sense of phantoms, broken symmetry, lawns gone to seed, the gradual corruption wrought by time. On Spring In The Artifical Gardens, notes are sounded and allowed to reverberate for extended periods in a way that brings to mind Alain Resnais' film, Last Year In Marienbad. Other pieces suggest the unsettling strangeness of the closing scene in 2001 A Space Odyssey. Given the tremendous resonance of the place, The Versailles Sessions might have sunk under the weight of its pretension, thankfully Murcof avoids this while presenting a suite of varied parts that is impressive in its reach and seriousness. --Colin ButtimerFind more music at the BBC This link will take you off in a new window Product Description In the summer of 2007, Fernando Corona, a.k.a. Murcof, pleted a site-specific mission for Les Grandes Eaux Nocturnes, an annual festival of sound, light, and water at Chateau de Versailles in France, and posed a suite of music specifically for the grand evening fountain display in the Jardin du Roi. The Versailles Sessions is an aural document of the event, released on specially priced CD and limited-edition double vinyl.

Review "As always, a cut above the rest" 8/10 -- Danny Turner, Future Music, November 2008"Mesmerising. Ethereal. Dominating. Mind blowing? Yes, mind blowing...a startling set of positions...enthralling" 7.5/10, -- Nick Calafato, Clash, January 2009"a grand and elegant opus" -- Rahul Verna, Metro, Fri Nov 28 2008"Mind-blowing" -- Francis Jones 8/10, AU, No. 51 November 2008"an absolute pleasure" -- David Stubbs, The Wire. December 2008Autor:MurcofNośnik:Audio CDPłyt:Język: Data wydania: 2008Waga: 0.13 gramWysokość: 0.3 cmSzerokość: 4.9 cmDługość: 5.5 cmUWAGA: Kupując produkt na tej aukcji zgadzasz się na wydłużony termin realizacji wysyłki (10-14 dni roboczych). Podany towar pochodzi z zagranicznego magazynu, stąd wydłużony czas realizacji który podany jest obok.