Bertrand Chamayou - Cage² '2024

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Mysterious Adventure
02. The Unavailable Memory Of
03. Primitive
04. In the Name of the Holocaust: Pt. 1
05. In the Name of the Holocaust: Pt. 2
06. The Perilous Night: I.
07. The Perilous Night: II.
08. The Perilous Night: III.
09. The Perilous Night: IV.
10. The Perilous Night: V.
11. The Perilous Night: VI.
12. Root of an Unfocus
13. Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
14. A Valentine out of Season: Movement I
15. A Valentine out of Season: Movement II
16. A Valentine out of Season: Movement III
17. Tossed as It Is Untroubled
18. Bacchanale
19. Our Spring Will Come
20. And the Earth Shall Bear Again

With CAGE2 Bertrand Chamayou brings together 20 dance-inspired pieces written
for prepared piano by the American composer John Cage (1912-1992). It continues
Chamayou’s recorded exploration of Cage’s music, which began with
the Erato album Letter(s) to Erik Satie, released in 2023. Juxtaposing the music
of Cage and Satie, whose work Cage championed and revived in the mid-20 th
century, the album was welcomed by the Guardian as “a gem of a
collection”. This album takes its title, CAGE², from a stage show,
built around 12 pieces for prepared piano written by Cage between 1940 and 1945,
which Chamayou and dancer-choreographer Élodie Sicard toured around France.
For practical purposes, it was necessary to have four pianos, each
‘prepared’ in different ways, on the stage. The mathematical power
of 2 applied to Cage’s name in the show’s title (“Cage
squared”) refers both to the complementary presence of two performers
– a pianist and a dancer – and to the square formed by the four
pianos, each in a corner of the stage.



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