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Isola d'Elba

by Abbé Brémond Ensemble

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San Hilare 06:14
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Maciarello 06:30
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Spiagga 06:46
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Sulla strada 13:36
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Vigneto 12:34
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Poggio 07:25
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Amanti 18:12

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Abbé Brémond Ensemble
Isola d’Elba
Hommage à Viola Fischerová (II)

Analogous to the recording Les mémoires, another album by Abbé Brémond Ensemble dedicated to Czech poetess Viola Fischerová deals with memory. In the form of a recollection, it processes the soundtrack of a video recording taken on the Italian island of Elba (Isola d’Elba) in 2010, on the island where Viola Fischerová used to spend the summer holidays for several decades. She was here for the last time in the year from which the recording came, because she suddenly died shortly after her return to Bohemia.
In July 2010, I visited her with my former girlfriend on Elba and lived through one of the most beautiful weeks of my life there. I will never forget our long conversations beside her vineyard house, the fresh morning, the hot days and the romantic twilights. I also spent a few days with my girlfriend on long walks around the island - we were discovering its picturesque architecture and nature. We took photos and filmed, and an hour-long home video of our entire stay has been preserved. A few years ago, I realized that I also - inadvertently - captured the sounding of the island and the voices that I have been missing for a long time. So I tried - based on the soundtrack - to depict my memory musically. In each song, I remember specific places or situations and I reveal the mood of that time: I evoke an atmosphere of love and friendship and watch how the whole island resonates with each visited (and recorded) place. At the same time, these imaginary reconstructions paraphrase the atmospheric music of the island and evoke preserved images for those distant days. Although I did not dare to use the poetess’s voice for my experiment in the end, I hear it somewhere in the depths of the captured natural tones. After all, even though we wandered far from Maciarello at the time, where her vineyard house is located, she was still close to us - and she is so far.

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Abbé Brémond Ensemble
Elba
Hommage à Viola Fischerová (II)

Podobně jako nahrávka Les mémoires se i další album Abbé Brémond Ensemble věnované české básnířce Viole Fischerové zabývá pamětí. Formou rozpomínání zpracovává zvukovou stopu videonahrávky pořízené na italském ostrově Elba roku 2010, na místě, kde po několik desetiletí Viola Fischerová trávila letní prázdniny. V roce, z něhož nahrávka pochází, zde byla naposledy, protože zanedlouho po svém návratu do Čech náhle zemřela.
V červenci 2010 jsem ji se svou tehdejší dívkou na Elbě navštívil a prožil zde jeden z nejhezčích týdnů svého života. Nikdy nezapomenu na naše dlouhé rozhovory u viničního domku, na svěží rána, horké dny a romantické soumraky. Několik dní jsem se svou dívkou také strávil delšími pěšími výpravami po ostrově – poznávali jsme jeho malebnou architekturu i přírodu. Fotografovali jsme a filmovali a z celého našeho pobytu se dochovalo také hodinové domácí video. Před pár lety mi došlo, že jsem na něm zároveň – vlastně bezděčně – zachytil i znění ostrova a hlasy, které mi už dlouho chybějí. Pokusil jsem se tedy – na základě zvukové stopy – znázornit své vzpomínání hudebně. V každé skladbě se rozpomínám na konkrétní místa či situace, upamatovávám se na tehdejší náladu: evokuji atmosféru lásky a přátelství a sleduji, jak s každým navštíveným (a zaznamenaným) místem souzvučí celý ostrov. Tyto imaginární rekonstrukce tak současně parafrázují atmosférickou hudbu ostrova i vyvolávají uchované obrazy na ony vzdálené dny. Ačkoliv jsem si nakonec netroufl básnířčin hlas pro svůj experiment využít, slyším ho někde v hloubce těch zachycených přírodních tónů. Ostatně, i když jsme se tehdy zatoulali daleko od Maciarella, kde se její domek na vinici nachází, byla nám stále nablízku – a je i nyní.

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released December 31, 2020

Concept, electric guitar and music by Ká.
Recorded in Atelier LEN in 2019-2020.

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Koncept, elektrická kytara a hudba: Ká.
Nahráno v Atelieru LEN v letech 2019 a 2020.

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Do you enjoy Isola D'Elba? Try to another works by Abbé Brémond Ensemble; e.g.:
recordingsontheroad.bandcamp.com/album/les-lycophytes
recordingsontheroad.bandcamp.com/album/les-fragments-dun-discours-amoureux
recordingsontheroad.bandcamp.com/album/les-peaux
recordingsontheroad.bandcamp.com/album/clausura

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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

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