Bryars - 11th Floor (after Film noir) | GB Records BCGBCD34

Bryars - 11th Floor (after Film noir)

£13.25

Label: GB Records

Cat No: BCGBCD34

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Ballet

Expected Release Date: 28th June 2024

Contents

Artists

Lisa Langbacka (accordion)
Nils Berg (tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet)
Adam Forkelid (piano)
Dan Berglund (double bass)

Works

Bryars, Gavin

11th Floor

Artists

Lisa Langbacka (accordion)
Nils Berg (tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet)
Adam Forkelid (piano)
Dan Berglund (double bass)

About

‘Like most ballet music I composed for Edouard Lock, the music involves reworking existing scores but this time from a musical genre; 1940s and 50s Film Noir, rather than from specific composers. The film studio's big band is reduced to just four players: tenor saxophone, doubling clarinets, accordion, piano and double bass. Here the musicians have to be versatile with the references to various forms of jazz and to some of the conventions of Film Noir music. As with all this music, recognition and memory of the source is critical.

‘For the production by Cullberg Ballet, who commissioned the work, I had four of the finest Swedish musicians who move freely between the various musical demands: being precise, but flexible in a nonclassical way; understanding the requirements of this musical approach, with a powerful double bass driving the ensemble, which even swings at times, anchored at the centre by the richness and fluidity of the accordion, and moving subtly between written music and improvisation.’

– Gavin Bryars

Tracks:
1. The Street
2. The Tram
3. Flowers for the Dead
4. Zed
5. Sweet Dreams
6. Tropical Island
7. Rehab
8. Blanche Prologue
9. Blanche
10. Flowers
11. Lily
12. Four Deuces
13. Molly
14. Prologue to Love
15. Love Scene
16. The Last Street

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