Paul Giger - Chartres (1989)
Paul Giger: violin
Recorded at the cathedral of Chartres, France 1988
Tracks:
1. Crypt I + II
2. Crypt III
3. Labyrinth
4. Crossing
5. Holy Center
| QUOTE : |
| Giger's music is undisciplined to the extent that it sounds more like improvisation than a written out composition. In the range of its references it is unashamedly eclectic; the naive and the rhetorical rub shoulders; traditional, experimental and psychedelic happily cohabit; everything is embraced from organum to Penderecki, from folk-fiddling to the song of the humpbacked whale. Nor is a single trick of the violinist's craft missed. Harmonics, glissandos, multiple stops, devil's trills, fancy bowings, the noises of wood and horse-hair, all have a place in the design. This may sound unpromising, but in fact Giger's spectacular technical control of his instrument saves the day. In virtuosity he far outclasses many concert violinists, and his resourcefulness and assurance breathe vitality into the work At best, in the concluding 'Holy Center' (much indebted to La Monte Young and Stockhausen's Stimmung), there is a marvellous sense of a man totally at one with his violin, voice and instrument simultaneously lost in contemplation of the marvels of natural harmonics. J.M. Gramophone |
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