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Des pas sous la neige / Grare

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Details

Composer
GRARE, JOEL
Artist
Joel Grare
Format
CD
Label
Alpha
Released
Nov 16, 2018
Catalog #
ALPHA436
UPC
3760014194368

About

Joël Grare, percussionist and tireless seeker of offbeat sounds and instruments, here presents his third album for Alpha: ‘Footprints beneath the snow: first sounds of innocence, cowbells and jingle-bells, sounds swallowed up by the mountain’… Through his compositions and inspirational influences, he follows a dizzying emotional Alpine path, along with his amazing instruments: drums, balafon, melodica, sanza, cowbells of all sizes, Japanese drums, trompiki, rainstick, thunder sheet – and his famous ‘clavicloche’. He writes: “One early afternoon in January 1986 I visited the Devouassoud workshop in Chamonix, manufacturer of the jingle bells and tongued cowbells that adorn the animals’ necks, filling the mountainside with their chimes… I added these new treasures to my percussion set, not realizing that these newbies arranged among my cymbals would eventually become an instrument in their own right… Totally unlike church bells, whose pitches are pre-calculated when casting them, the pitch of cowbells is only approximate. The low-pitched bells are called “dull”, and the high-pitched ones “bright” – you need only a few cowbell notes to identify a particular herd. When trying to assemble a full tuned set, you might test several hundred cowbells and pick out just a few… To collect a chromatic set of three-and-a-half octaves took me a good twenty years!”

Tracklist 18 tracks

  1. 1 Des pas sous la neige 03:36
    Track
    1
    Title
    Des pas sous la neige
    Duration
    03:36
    Composer
    Joel Grare
    Performer
    Joel Grare
  2. 2 Transhumance et transcendance 04:02
    Track
    2
    Title
    Transhumance et transcendance
    Duration
    04:02
    Composer
    Joel Grare
    Performer
    Joel Grare
  3. 3 Battements d'ailes dans le brouillard 03:54
    Track
    3
    Title
    Battements d'ailes dans le brouillard
    Duration
    03:54
    Composer
    Joel Grare
    Performer
    Joel Grare
  4. 4 Les rythmes fantômes 02:25
    Track
    4
    Title
    Les rythmes fantômes
    Duration
    02:25
    Composer
    Joel Grare
    Performer
    Joel Grare
  5. 5 Campanula alpestris 02:59
    Track
    5
    Title
    Campanula alpestris
    Duration
    02:59
    Composer
    Joel Grare
    Performer
    Joel Grare
  6. 6 La noce feras-tu? 03:15
    Track
    6
    Title
    La noce feras-tu?
    Duration
    03:15
    Composer
    Joel Grare
    Performer
    Joel Grare
  7. 7 La buée 02:50
    Track
    7
    Title
    La buée
    Duration
    02:50
    Composer
    Joel Grare
    Performer
    Joel Grare
  8. 8 No. 2. Brâul 01:35
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 2. Brâul
    Duration
    01:35
    Composer
    Béla Bartók
    Performer
    Joel Grare
  9. 9 No. 3. Pe loc 01:40
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 3. Pe loc
    Duration
    01:40
    Composer
    Béla Bartók
    Performer
    Joel Grare
  10. 10 No. 4. Bucsumi tánc 02:20
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 4. Bucsumi tánc
    Duration
    02:20
    Composer
    Béla Bartók
    Performer
    Joel Grare
  11. 11 Cloches Vespérales 02:49
    Track
    11
    Title
    Cloches Vespérales
    Duration
    02:49
    Composer
    Joel Grare
    Performer
    Joel Grare
  12. 12 Le cou des vaches 03:25
    Track
    12
    Title
    Le cou des vaches
    Duration
    03:25
    Composer
    Joel Grare
    Performer
    Joel Grare, Matthieu Desbordes
  13. 13 Les Grandes Jorasses Face Nord 03:38
    Track
    13
    Title
    Les Grandes Jorasses Face Nord
    Duration
    03:38
    Composer
    Joel Grare
    Performer
    Joel Grare, Yula Slipovitch, Matthieu Desbordes
  14. 14 La cascade des perles de rosée 04:25
    Track
    14
    Title
    La cascade des perles de rosée
    Duration
    04:25
    Composer
    Joel Grare
    Performer
    Joel Grare
  15. 15 Debussy ou la tour des cloches 05:13
    Track
    15
    Title
    Debussy ou la tour des cloches
    Duration
    05:13
    Composer
    Joel Grare
    Performer
    Joel Grare
  16. 16 Sonnerie de plein champ pour faire venir la neige 03:11
    Track
    16
    Title
    Sonnerie de plein champ pour faire venir la neige
    Duration
    03:11
    Composer
    Joel Grare
    Performer
    Joel Grare, Matthieu Desbordes, Yula Slipovitch, Anne Isambert
  17. 17 Les flocons invitent la montagne à danser 03:21
    Track
    17
    Title
    Les flocons invitent la montagne à danser
    Duration
    03:21
    Composer
    Joel Grare
    Performer
    Joel Grare, Simon Buffaud
  18. 18 Sous la neige 04:05
    Track
    18
    Title
    Sous la neige
    Duration
    04:05
    Composer
    Joel Grare
    Performer
    Joel Grare, Alice Julien-Laferrière