Thursday, July 15, 2021

Superklang - Superklang (July 2021 Umlaut Records)

…Then they both stopped on the side of the road…

While dusting their coats to remove the dust of the path, they looked back towards the fertile meadows from which they had picked flowers. Already fifteen years playing together! Sylvain Lemêtre and Frédéric Aurier, trained in classical school, committed to the contemporary cause, curious of musics from around the world, Fred and Sylvain wanted to write the score that would resemble them. Interpreters, composers and improvisers, they gathered the seeds that they had patiently grown : musical theater and electro pop, bourrées with five or seven beats, Ligeti and Machaut, what is below as well as what is above…They grabbed the zarb and the violin, the nyckelharpa, the frame drum and the Tibetan bowls, they also found on the mound a threaded rod and a Newtonian pendulum : SuperKlang was born!

They then turned their gaze forward... the horizon was far away... they set off again!

1. Fred et moi (Bonjour) 01:42
2. Trois Totems 05:32
3. Horloge 1 01:36
4. Sucre d'Orge 05:21
5. Retro passacaille 04:50
6. Rage de Danse 03:00
7. Horloge 2 01:35
8. Sans Additif 07:13
9. Horloge 3 01:40
10. Retour aux Chazeaux 05:41
11. Sylvain et moi (Au revoir) 02:06

Frédéric Aurier : violin, nyckelharpa and voice
Sylvain Lemêtre : zarb, percussions and voice
Compositions : Frédéric Aurier - Sylvain Lemêtre

Sound engeneering and mastering : Adrian' Bourget
Recorded in July 2020 at Studio l’Artscène