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Claire Goldfarb Or propos (Homerecords) Solo performances for cello and voice by this unusual Belgian composer and performer.

Tracks: 01 Miroir renversé 02 Kazan 03 Ton ventricule gauche 04 Piq et Clogh 05 Uzaï 06 Sahune 07 L'or et l'oran 08 L'autre s'entortille 09 Ungezoï 10 Terra incognita From the press: Based upon several cello improvisations and some vocals and a few environment related sounds done in various churches, adding a few additional layers in studio, with and here and there a tiny effect. These improvisations evolved to contemporary classical compositions, and songs. The instrument is explored with affection and classical skills and interests, bare and cut out from the heart, while some vocal parts express more inner spiritual harmonies. "Sahune" sound more like inner complaints of what is remembered in the genes heritages suffering from persecutions, while its own inner source cries only for freedom. "L'Or and L'Oran" is an Italian song, a different inner cry expressed while changing pitches and colour of the voice. Claire Goldfarb is part of various orchestras, and is especially specialized in playing Giacinto Scelsi and other new music. Further she studied the Feldenkrais method of dance in Cairo. - Gerald Van Waes in Psychevanhetfolk The label says This album proposes recordings based on improvisations whose successive notes & the rewriting made it possible Claire to refine her matter. The sound recordings took place in various churches of Drome Frenchwoman (to explore various acoustics) during one working week as intense as natural, to finish by an astonishing concert in the presence of people of the area. A first album is often significant of an intention contained a long time. Collected by the microphones, something of beautiful, of fort & inexpressible birth gave to this so particular tone. In Brussels, the phases of "dérushage" succeeded the re-recordings of certain parts in studio, sound recordings in "layers" as well as new arrangements and various editions in order to supplement and enrich certain approaches ; an artistic coproduction of Yves de Ghellinck and Johan Delforge with Claire. 'Or Propos', it is finally the realization of a project lengthily in gestation : it had a time for interpretation there, discoveries in readings. It had improvisations solos there, improvisations on images, compositions on texts, creations of spectacles, meetings dances - music. Here come time to write. It is a question of going to draw where the access is thinnest. To touch with this voice. To tend to the ultimate meeting. That of oneself. Claire achieves all the audacities in her overall exploration of her voice and sonorities of the cello, she dwells in a space of vibrations. No sound is made which does not deliver an emotion. An artist not seeking to propose her great control of the instrument but to give up herself in it, full with sensitivity, generosity, freedom, imagination, simplicity and audacity, harmony and humour.

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