Engagement & Confrontation

Martel, Pierre-Yves
Actuelle Cd
General | Sep 2007

Reviews

Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2007-09-03
New music, avante experimental classical from Canada. Chamber instruments played very untraditionally. Bursts and blurts, seemingly random phrases. Sparse and quiet at times. Very academic.

1) very quiet start, builds up, layers of bass strings, fall away then re-appear, building
2) pitzicatto bas and blurps of other instruments
3) bowing, strings, very sparse/quiet toward end
4) percussive feel
5) mix of bass, percussion, sparse
6) lots of bass bowing, slow and sparse feel
7) very sparse, quiet
8) brief conga/perc
9) squealing strings
10) percussive bow sounds
11) brief
12) builds up slow into cinematic quality
13) sparse, randomness
14) squealing and faster phrasing
15) fast bss plucking
16) very sparse
17) fast bass playing w/ percussion
18) slow sparse bass

Recent airplay

Benibraun
Memory SelectNov 09, 2007
Cages
Memory SelectSep 14, 2007

Charting

2007-09-09 — 2007-11-11 Classical/Experimental
Week EndingAirplays
Nov 11 1
Sep 16 1

Track listing

1. Felt Clips
2. Cages
3. Fromage En Crottes
4. Seems... Far Too...Familiar
5. Benibraun
6. For D/C
7. Paper Clips, Please
8. Interlude #1
9. Monsieur Carignan
10. Eczema
11. Interlude #2
12. Correspondances Domestiques
13. Mulo: Primo Segmente
14. Pneus Semi-Pneumatiques
15. L'atelier A Lamario
16. L'atelier A Lamario
17. Dresser
18. Arrivals And Departures