Matmos - Ultimate Care II - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Matmos - The Ganzield EP [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/16/2012

Matmos are one of the most prominent experimental electronic artists working today, crafting work by creating new conceptual frameworks & immediately testing those frameworks absolute limits. For Regards / Ukony dla Bogusaw Schaeffer they've focused on another artist known, in large part, for doing the same. Bogusaw Schaeffer was one of the first Polish artists creating electronic music. In step with American contemporaries like John Cage and Morton Feldman, he worked across the boundaries of classical composition, electronic experimentation, and radical theater in playfully form-breaking ways. Matmos are not the first ones to recognize the power of his catalog, from Solo (a 2008 documentary that garnered numerous international awards), to the annual Shaeffer's Era Festival (most recently celebrated simultaneously in Warsaw and Los Angeles) his work continues to inspire. Regards... however, was not just inspired by his work, Matmos were given access to the entirity of Schaeffer's recorded works to use as they saw fit, commissioned by the prestigious Instytutu Adama Mickiewicza. They re-assembled & re-combined these recorded works with modern instrumentations in a way that only Matmos could, and what emerges is a composite portrait of the utopian 1960s Polish avant-garde and the contemporary dystopian cultural moment regarding each other across a distance.

With the InchKegelstattInch Trio for clarinet, viola and piano, Mozart may have been the first to compose for what was an atypical association at the time, but he was soon emulated by Schumann, Reinecke, Hurlstone and Max Bruch - who composed his Eight Pieces Op.83 in 1910 for his son. In a kaleidoscope of styles, Bruch conjures up rhapsodies, Romanian music, Brahms and Mendelssohn, imbuing his miniatures with an intense, passionate lyricism. Patrick Messina, Lise Berthaud and Fabrizio Chiovetta bring these two works together in this recording, which is served by their undeniable complicity and remarkable accuracy of expression.