“The work has been assembled from Rinus’ collection of tapes and is another fascinating collage of audio elements assembled according to a dream-like logic; one element follows another with no apparent attempt to make sense on a conventional level, or even to create specific sonic correspondences. I always sense that Rinus van Alebeek has little in common with “formal” composers, and that in a test scenario a proper electro-acoustic musician like Pierre Henry or Bernard Parmegiani would have come up with something entirely different, even if given the exact same set of materials to work from. I suspect that their versions would have been stiffer, more structured, more classical; much as I love them, composers from the French school of Musique Concrète are always trying to tell us something, and quite often the messages turn out to be quite lofty instances of philosophy or high-minded intellectual elaborations.

Instead of telling us something, it always seems to me that Rinus is trying to find out things, exploring or discovering an aspect of the world which he regards as a mystery, and not proceeding with any foregone conclusions in mind. This sense comes over very strongly on the present tape, whose strange semi-narrative and peripatetic nature slowly uncovers unseen and unheard things, and manages to leave them intact and alive, rather than immediately inserting them into the killing-jar, like captured butterflies seized with tweezers.”

(Ed Pinsent)

Eine Reise von der Barockmusik bis zur Gegenwart ohne Grenzen oder Barrieren. Eine Expedition in die technischen und expressiven Möglichkeiten des Kontrabass, quer durch stilistische und idiomatische Unterschiede zwischen Komposition und Improvisation. Als Soloperformance eines Instruments, das vornehmlich begleitend, maximal phasenweise solierend in Jazzformationen bekannt ist, eröffnet Alessandro Vicard aussergewöhnliche Klang- und Seelenwelten des Kontrabass: Eine Rarität.

Musik von:

J.S.Bach – Cello Suite N°1

Alessandro Vicard – Barlumi

Alessandro Vicard – Penombra

J.S.Bach – Cello Suite N°2

Alessandro Vicard – Alias Alea N°2

Alessandro Vicard – Impulse for contrabass

H.W.Henze – S.Biagio 9 Agosto ore 1207

Alessandro Vicard – Alterato

Alessandro Vicard – in G

Rolling stones – Angie

http://www.rarafestival.com/


(c) Bildrechte: Rinus van Alebeek / Alessandro Vicard