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Fanous & Uitti: Negoum
Mode Records

Fanous & Uitti: Negoum

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Details

Composer
FANOUS UITTI
Artist
Fanous, Uitti
Format
CD
Label
Mode Records
Released
Oct 25, 2019
Catalog #
MOD-CD-316
UPC
764593031628

About

The music on this album was recorded in the studio the day after Uitti and Fanous spent 10 minutes improvising together in concert, in a first meeting. It represents bidirectional ideas in music often and erroneously thought to be opposites: western vs. Eastern, improvised vs. #through-composed. In this recording they are stood on their head, examined, dissected, tortured, and ultimately reconciled. Fanous says:"Musically, Frances and I came from two distinct sets of emphases. In my case, these were non-western music, as well as chromaticism in both it's contemporary classical and free jazz expressions, all funneled through the techniques of classical and flamenco guitar. In Frances' case, it was a lifelong devotion to and mastery of parallel directions: improvisation, as well as contemporary composition at the highest level. Both were made infinitely more powerful by the deployment of ingenious extended techniques, including her revolutionary two-bow methods. Our backgrounds contained enough shared common experience to allow for a tentacular interdigitation of our improvisational languages, which was effortless and natural." The session began with bouzouki-cello duets, in which drones played a central role, calling up a middle-eastern sound-world. Fanous writes: "As the pieces evolved, they gradually became unmoored and reverted to who they really were, but together. This process of feeling one's way through the darkness was like navigating towards some unknown endpoint, the way the ancients used the astrolabe to navigate using the positions of the stars - Negoum in Arabic."

Tracklist 9 tracks

  1. 1 I. Adhara 16:25
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Adhara
    Duration
    16:25
    Composer
    Ayman Fanous, Frances-Marie Uitti
    Performer
    Ayman Fanous, Frances-Marie Uitti
  2. 2 II. Alnilam 02:19
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Alnilam
    Duration
    02:19
    Composer
    Ayman Fanous, Frances-Marie Uitti
    Performer
    Ayman Fanous, Frances-Marie Uitti
  3. 3 III. Caph 05:35
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Caph
    Duration
    05:35
    Composer
    Ayman Fanous, Frances-Marie Uitti
    Performer
    Ayman Fanous, Frances-Marie Uitti
  4. 4 IV. Alnitac 07:10
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Alnitac
    Duration
    07:10
    Composer
    Ayman Fanous, Frances-Marie Uitti
    Performer
    Ayman Fanous, Frances-Marie Uitti
  5. 5 V. Megrez 04:04
    Track
    5
    Title
    V. Megrez
    Duration
    04:04
    Composer
    Ayman Fanous, Frances-Marie Uitti
    Performer
    Ayman Fanous, Frances-Marie Uitti
  6. 6 VI. Alioth 10:50
    Track
    6
    Title
    VI. Alioth
    Duration
    10:50
    Composer
    Ayman Fanous, Frances-Marie Uitti
    Performer
    Ayman Fanous, Frances-Marie Uitti
  7. 7 VII. Zaurac 03:06
    Track
    7
    Title
    VII. Zaurac
    Duration
    03:06
    Composer
    Ayman Fanous, Frances-Marie Uitti
    Performer
    Ayman Fanous, Frances-Marie Uitti
  8. 8 VIII. Rasalased 03:51
    Track
    8
    Title
    VIII. Rasalased
    Duration
    03:51
    Composer
    Ayman Fanous, Frances-Marie Uitti
    Performer
    Ayman Fanous, Frances-Marie Uitti
  9. 9 IX. Nekkar 04:27
    Track
    9
    Title
    IX. Nekkar
    Duration
    04:27
    Composer
    Ayman Fanous, Frances-Marie Uitti
    Performer
    Ayman Fanous, Frances-Marie Uitti