Orange is a reference to Georges Perec. Just as in Perec’s literary works everyday events and common keepsakes stand for a collective memory, so the music moves in a way that speaks of a shared expanse: different modes are assembled like a puzzle, creating an overall picture of associative images. In Perec’s creations, key words and places become way stations in a labyrinth of memories.
“Je me souviens” is a key sentence around which the Parisian poet Georges Perec (1938-1982) has constructed a patchwork of narrative aphorisms. At the same time, he is open to interpretation, and so Perec’s work acts as a stimulus for Michael Riessler, as he brings his musical perceptions and awareness into play. But then the 42 year old saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer is not interested in expressing things in the normal, accepted way. He wades into the depths of the music, searching for structures and divisions, consistencies and contrasts.
Riessler intentionally reduces and condenses the instrumental fullness into singular succinct modes of expression. He accomplishes this change through arrangement and composition. Instead of allowing the differentiated harmonic layers to emerge simultaneously on a musical plateau, the main focus by Orange is on the melodic and rhythmic succession of motifs, sound components and vocal elements. This process replaces the polyphonic momentum with a gradual succession of musical impressions.
For example, there is the singing. Elise uses her voice as a method to combine impressions, associations, and comprehension on the same level. The clear articulation of the words, the dramatically precise structuring of the phrases, the percussive rhythmic treatment of the melodies, and the carefully balanced integration of the whole, makes for a structural sound that is a kind of vocal architecture. On the other hand, Jean-Louis Matinier plays within the musette’s accepted line of musical tradition, in which he takes up the accordion as a juxtaposed counter-weight. He uses this intuitive network of tradition, and through his individual stylistic virtuosity and cunning ease of interpretation, stretches the listener’s accustomed way of hearing.
Pierre Charial enhances the sound impressions of Orange through his instrument’s acoustic and emotional ambiguity; the hurdy-gurdy stands between the mechanical and electronic, variation and uniformity, the human and the synthetic. It ties together a whole series of irritating sounds into an amazingly open tonal network. Since Riessler’s and Charial’s riffing had already been partly prepared before the recording in the beginning of 1999, their playing allows ambivalent tonal textures to seep through, leaving wide-ranging fantasies and images in sound – images which color the way from the county fair to the African market place. Michael Riessler’s Orange is a cleverly worked out masterpiece of cultural associations treading the borderlines between jazz, improvisation, and modern classical music.
Tracklist:
01. W (Souvenirs D’ Enfance)
02. 2 Dans Un Cafe
03. Wagon 1
04. May Be
05. 1. Wagon 2, 2. Arabuno
06. Wagon 3
07. Atlas
08. Wagon 4
09. Orange
10. 1. Annonce, 2. Wagon 5
11. Itineraires/Verticalement
12. Je
13. Je me souviens
Total time: 50:11
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Michael Riessler / Orange
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Thanks to dtromp
See also:
Tomasz Stanko, Manfred Bründl, Michael Riessler – Suite Talk (1993)
Michael Riessler – Momentum Mobile (1994)
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