Tapestry - Faces of a Woman - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Kassel Jaeger (aka François J. Bonnet) returns to Shelter Press after Swamps / Things (SP119), Shifted in Dreams (SP144), and the recent reissue of the classicZauberberg (SP068), co-composed with Akira Rabelais and Stephan Mathieu. With this major new album, entitled Sub Re, Bonnet continues his long exploration of the musical possibilities of sound, extending the concrete approach developed at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (the historic and essential Parisian studio that Bonnet has been directing since 2018) and revitalizing it through an exposition that focuses less on the clear manifestation of sound material than on it's ambiguous evocation.Sub re, in Latin, can mean Inchunder the thing, under the substance, under the matter.Inch It's precisely this direct approach to music, drawing on the extraction of raw sound material, that forms the basis of this album. Under the matter thus signals the concrete aspect of music, but not the concrete that is transfigured, becoming vapor and form, the substrate of an idea. Rather, it signals the concrete beneath the concrete, in the immanence of sounds, in their becoming, as a driving force, like a tide, like a vault of imperious and powerful matter. To achieve this, Bonnet draws on a multitude of sound sources (acoustic, electronic, natural or artificial, created on purpose or found by chance) and a plurality of contexts and occasions to give them form.The movement, a shell, a bell, a spell, for example, was heard for the first time during a concert organized in Venice in connection with Latifa Echakhch's contribution to the Swiss Pavilion at the 2022 Art Biennale, while the last movement on the record, signalmirror, concluded a piece presented at the first Sound Biennale in Sion (Switzerland) in 2023. These elements, formed and detached from their original context of appearance, of the places and people who made them pos

Album Tracks 1. I Feel the Earth Move 2. So Far Away 3. It's Too Late 4. Home Again 5. Beautiful 6. Way Over Yonder 7. You've Got a Friend 8. Where You Lead 9. Will You Love Me Tomorrow? 10. Smackwater Jack 11. Tapestry 12. (You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman

One of the modules in the exhibition MusicaFemina - Women Made Music, presented in 2018 in Vienna, featured 100 female composers who have characterized female composition of music from the time of Sappho to the present day. When the exhibition was open for two months and viewed by 56,000 visitors, the poet, filmmaker and composer Sophie Reyer had the idea, inspired by her ancestresses, of composing 100 poetic texts to complement the series of 100 short biographies. She offered the 100 poetic passages as texts or audio portraits to contemporary composers for composition, with the poet eagerly creating postscripts for those particularly forgotten, those whom the female composers particularly wished to be remembered. The compositional work about the ancestresses was a voyage of discovery into the history of the female composers; into one's own history. This poetic-musicological project represents an impressive, profound snapshot of female composing, a poetic encyclopedia, a first-time and unparalleled bridging of the chasm between historic and contemporary composing. It is an opportunity to take a look at the history of music and clear the path for further opportunities. Album Tracks 1. For Anna Mahler Mahler's Anna 2. For Olga Neuwirth Dance, Music Box 3. For Violeta Parra Lamen 4. For Mel Bonis Dance of the Flames 5. For Meredith Monk Straight to Heaven 6. For Mayako Kubo Hommage to Mayako Kubo 7. For Louise Adolphe Le Beau Sounds Always Open 8. For Dora Pejavic What to Do 9. For Nadja Boulanger 10. For Alma Mahler Werfel 11. For Clara Schumann 12. For May Aufderheide Rag for May 13. For Ursula Mamlok Hommage to Ursula Mamlok 14. For Fanny Hensel Née Mendelssohn 15. For Grazyna Bacewicz 16. For Leonora Duarte Voca Me 17. For Kassia 18. For Sofia Gubaidulina When Voices Are Silenced 19. For Hildegard Von Bingen So