Inscape - Tableaux
Inscape - Tableaux
表演者: Barry Guy New Orchestra
专辑类型: Album
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 2000
唱片数: 1
出版者: Intakt Records
专辑简介
The idea for the Barry Guy New Orchestra sprang from the logistics problems that he continuously encountered with the LJCO. For example, planning for the travel and accommodations for up to twenty other musicians is often a Sisyphean task. Funding is another issue altogether.
Guy and Patrik Landolt of Intakt Records brainstormed, and when the dust had cleared, the idea for the Barry Guy New Orchestra was born: an international collective consisting of ten musicians. Funding is more dependable this way, from the international angle, at least for part of the group. The Swedish and Swiss governments are quite dedicated to the forward progress of their artists. Germany too, to some extent. The British Council lends a hand when it can to its musicians, as it has for many years with the LJCO. Then there are the Americans, but that is for another essay.
Physically, it is also easier to move around ten musicians than it is eighteen. The only real remaining complication is ensuring that everyone's schedules jibe, which, under the circumstances, will often be hit or miss.
Alan Jones (onefinalnote.com)
With the title Inscape – Tableaux, little needs to be explained about the intentions of the piece, for they are implicit in the definitions above. It has been my greatest pleasure first to imagine anf then to assemble such extraordinary musicians under the BGNO umbrella. This is a group where the tentacles of musical life at various times over almost three decades have touched, communicated and released new manifestations in the field of creative music.
The fascination for me in composing the piece was how to express the different associations that have materialised over the years. Naturally, with the numerous past meetings and possible new permutations of a ten piece ensemble there had to be a structual starting point. I decided therefore that the main axis would exist around the long standing trio with Evan parker and Paul Lytton, the more recent trio with Mats Gustafsson and Raymond Strid and the fact that Marilyn Crispell has worked and recorded with both trios. Additionally I had in mind to write a series of pieces for Marilyn. So three of these appear in the work as a specific piano focus between four main ensemble sections. From the trio's axis and piano focus, the rest of piece fell into place in terms of building the tableaux around the musicians. With the possibilities of new formations developing, exploring existing musical friendships and past chance meetings, the scenario for composing was rich and colourful.
Barry Guy (liner notes)
曲目
1 Part I (14:42)
2 Part II (5:32)
3 Part III (10:38)
4 Part IV (8:38)
5 Part V (6:05)
6 Part VI (10:26)
7 Part VII (10:40)