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The home has always been one of the most important themes of humankind. However, its importance has multiplied in connection with the so-called refugee crisis. Ideally, we should no longer be interested only in our home or the relationships we tie with those closest to us or with our neighbors, but also in how others, even the most distant ones, live. And if not out of solidarity, then because the paths of all of us intersect, connect and overlap, and these processes can affect the stability of the places we consider the most important. The new album by Abbé Brémond Ensemble, after a series of recordings studying the sounding of specific places, relates precisely to the idea of home. It does not try to evoke some family idyll, the peace and quiet of tightly bounded cells. On the contrary, it addresses those who lost their homes due to wars and other conflicts. On their journey to the real homeland, refugees bring with them memories from which they can derive a vision of real peace, but at the same time they - lacking and building - experience their difference - their foreignness, and often even exclusion. Our composition, based on field recordings made in department stores with furniture and home furnishings in Prague, attempts to reflect the holistic experience of this incompleteness. It adjusts all kinds of noise and the sound smog of the internal radios of these centers and it places the voices of customers and their children in a multi-meaning whole. Those who establish their homes or improve them do not think that tomorrow war may invade their country and they will have to go on a long, perhaps endless journey - to save their lives. In the new reality of electroacoustic composition, however, they take on the identity of those who no longer find a fixed place and for whom only an uninhabitable no-man's land can be reserved - before the guns of anxious future refugees.
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Domov patří odjakživa k těm nejpodstatnějším tématům člověka. V souvislosti s tzv. uprchlickou krizí se ovšem jeho význam znásobil. Ideálně bychom se již neměli zajímat jen o své obydlí nebo vztahy, které navazujeme s nejbližšími či se sousedy, ale i o to, jak žijí druzí, i ti nejvzdálenější. A když ne ze solidarity, pak proto, že se cesty nás všech protínají, navazují a překrývají a tyto procesy ovlivňují i stabilitu míst, která pokládáme za nejvlastnější. Nové album Abbé Brémond Ensemble se po řadě nahrávek studujících znění konkrétních míst vztahuje právě k ideji domova. Nesnaží se přitom ovšem evokovat nějakou rodinnou idylu, klid a pokoj pevně ohraničených buněk. Naopak se obrací k těm, kteří o domov přišli vinou válek a dalších konfliktů. Uprchlíci si na své cestě za tou skutečnou vlastí přinášejí vzpomínky, z nichž mohou odvodit vizi skutečného míru, ale zároveň – postrádající i budující – zakouší svou odlišnost – své cizinectví, ba nezřídka i vyloučení. Naše kompozice, vycházející z terénních nahrávek pořízených v obchodních domech s nábytkem a bytovým zařízením v Praze, se pokouší o zvukový odraz celistvého prožitku této neúplnosti. Upravuje nejrůznější ruchy, zvukový smog interních rozhlasů těchto center a do víceznačné plochy zasazuje hlasy zákazníků a jejich dětí. Ti, kteří si zakládají své domovy nebo je zvelebují, nepomýšlí na to, že zítra může do jejich země vtrhnout válka, že se i oni sami budou muset vydat na dlouhou, možná nekonečnou cestu, aby si zachránili život. V nové realitě elektroakustické kompozice ovšem přejímají totožnost právě těch, kteří již pevné místo nenacházejí a kterým může být vyhrazeno jen neobyvatelné území nikoho – před hlavněmi zbraní úzkostlivých budoucích uprchlíků.
credits
released December 30, 2023
Music composed, field recordings recorded and keyboard played by Ká between 2017 and 2023 in atelier LEN.
Hudbu složil, na klávesy hrál a užité terénní nahrávky pořídil Ká v letech 2017 až 2023 v ateliéru LEN.
Bio:
Abbé Brémond Ensemble
Avant-garde chamber orchestra dedicated to Henri Bremond’s idea of pure poetry and founded by Ká in 2003 in Prague as the collective creative space forming context for various musical, art and literary works. Main programme was formulated as "poésie pure – free improvisation – site specific – ambient – noisilence – land(e)scapes". Between the years 2003 and 2007 ABE published (mostly in private editions) ten records (with Ká's solo electro-acoustic compositions, vocal and orchestral works, free improvisations etc.) and performed a few site specific actions and private concerts. Most of these projects were inspired by individual literary works (Sylvia Plath, Tove Jansson, Andrej Stankovič, Paul Laforgue, Čingiz Ajtmatov, Josef Váchal). In 2007 the ensemble abandoned its pursuit and came back in 2014. With new inspiration of ideas of Elias Canetti and his esthetics of metamorphosis and his cult of atmosphere the ensemble found new aims and turned more to Life and Love and Nature. All the previous work of ABE was republished on Recordings On the Road and new records are releasing on it too.
Collective publishing project of a few kindred musicians, flowing outside (on periphery or in underground) the Czech music
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