BERNARD PARMEGIANI : Lac Noir - La Serpente 1992

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Format: LP [SRV464]
Shipping Weight: 0.44lbs
Label: Sub Rosa

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'Unreleased material composed by Bernard Parmegiani in 1992.
Lac Noir - La Serpente is part of Emmanuel Raquin-Lorenzi's Lac Noir, a composite work inspired by a serpentine female creature or 'snake woman' that he saw in Transylvania in 1976, with a total of 33 pieces using various media, 24 by himself and 9 by other artists. All the materials used in Lac Noir were gathered on the land of the snake-woman between 1990 and 1992. The first coordinated broadcast ran from June to October 2019, like a theatrical display of media.
At the end of May 1992, in Provence, in his Summer studio not far from the Montagne Sainte-Victoire, Bernard Parmegiani played me the first musical moments he had worked on from the sounds he and Christian Zanési had collected in Negreni in October 1990. A few days after this listening session, on 4th June, I wrote him a letter. I didn't mean to take control of what was to become the ninth movement of his composition, but to share with him some of the resonances I had heard in what he had composed, which mingled with my dreams and memories of the Transylvanian snake-woman, and outlined possible concordances with the other pieces underway for Lac Noir.
In the midst of the garish chaos of the fair and its spectacular stunts, there could spread out - still, silent eye of the cyclone - the long waters of a lake. Calm waters. Patches cool but sensitive as skin. Between the waters there flows and ripples, there shows up and dives again a snake-woman born of the still waters. A sweet, good serpent whose song - strange and melodious, sensual, yet already tinged, as if bitten by the black depths, with bitterness; that of prescience, shading it with melancholy - is her very undulation, the rings of which appear, together or in turn, the way translucent veins overlap, slither over one another in a moving braid of metamorphoses. (extracts from notes by E. Raquin-Lorenzi)'

A1 La Traversée 7:48
A2 La Voix 15:37
A3 Nature Mêlée I 3:50
A4 Nature Mêlée II 3:40
A5 Le Cercle 2:41
B1 Tsiganie 6:34
B2 Rouge Et Blanc 2:01
Voice – Bernard Parmegiani, Christian Zanési
B3 Marchand De Cloches 5:01
B4 La Serpente 11:00

Composed By – Bernard Parmegiani
Liner Notes – Emmanuel Raquin-Lorenzi
Mastered By – Gabriel Dubois
Other [On The Initiative Of] – Pascal-Emmanuel Gallet
Recorded By [Sound Recording] – Christian Zanési
Year of composition: 1992
Originally released as Bernard Parmegiani - La Serpente by Médias Et Médias (France) in 1994 in a limited edition of 10 copies.
Never officially released to public before.

Commissioning: Service culturel des Affaires étrangères
Concert premiere: 2nd June 2019, Maison de la Radio, Studio 104, an Akousma Ina-GRM concert