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Abbé Brémond Ensemble has been connected with Prague since its beginnings. Already in the first years of its existence, it used to organize site-specific performances in various remote or more remote Prague exteriors, and it was inspired by some other places in its studio work as well. Starting with the album Wedding Opera in villa Turbová, the group also dealt with the atmosphere of different places. While the aforementioned album dedicated to a dilapidated villa in Košíře was purely a studio recording and rather brought a dream about the possible sounding of the place in the hours of a fictitious wedding, the following albums (Clausura, Trója, Oceán) were already based on field recordings and tried to independently interpret the atmosphere of specific locations.
The current album also brings such a composition, which tries to present the sounding of the star-studded summer house in the park in Liboc. It is based on an extensive recording of the local silence, which it envolves with a musical track, thus creating an ambivalent meditative study torn between dream and reality. Seemingly minimalistic sound reflections and fragments of melodies reveal, standing motionless in the middle of the massive walls, a movement shivered by the contact of the visitor and the place itself. Attentive listening, or even contemplation of the two resonating voices then directly introduces the listener to this simultaneously earthly and heavenly, even stellar world... The journey to the stars reveals itself as a descent into sleep, in which silence merges with a lingering melody and expands into an unexpected polyphony.
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Abbé Brémond Ensemble je od svého počátku spojen s Prahou. Již v prvních letech své existence pořádal site specific vystoupení v různých odlehlých či odlehlejších pražských exteriérech a některými dalšími místy se inspiroval i ve své studiové tvorbě. Počínaje albem Svatební opera ve vile Turbová se soubor také zabýval atmosférou některých míst. Zatímco zmíněné album věnované zchátralé vile v Košířích bylo čistě studiovou nahrávkou a přinášelo spíše sen o možném znění místa v hodinách fiktivní svatby, alba následující (Clausura, Trója, Oceán) již vycházela z terénních nahrávek a snažila se o samostatnou interpretaci atmosféry konkrétních lokalit.
Takovou kompozici přináší i album aktuální, které se snaží představit znění hvězdného letohrádku v libockém parku. Vychází z rozsáhlé nahrávky zdejšího ticha, kterou aktualizuje hudební stopou, a vytváří tak ambivalentní meditativní studii rozpjatou mezi snem a skutečností. Zdánlivě minimalistické zvukové odrazy a zlomky melodií odhalují v nehybnu uprostřed masivních zdí pohyb rozechvěný kontaktem návštěvníka místa samého. Pozorný poslech, ba kontemplace dvou rezonujících hlasů pak posluchače přímo uvádí do tohoto světa současně pozemského i nebeského, ba stelárního… Cesta ke hvězdám se přitom odhaluje jako sestup do spánku, v němž se ticho slité s doléhající melodií rozšíří v nečekanou polyfonii.
credits
released September 29, 2022
All field recordings recorded and keyboard played by and music composed by Ká in Atelier LEN 2019 and 2022.
Veškeré terénní nahrávky pořídil, na klávesy hrál a hudbu složil Ká v Atelieru LEN v letech 2019 a 2022.
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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