Pecou: Orquoy, Chango & Marcha de la humanidad / Stockhammer, French National Orchestra
Details
- Composer
- PECOU, THIERRY
- Artist
- Stockhammer
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Wergo
- Released
- Nov 18, 2016
- Catalog #
- WER73182
- UPC
- 4010228731828
About
The works of Thierry Pécou have brought something back into contemporary European music that had almost been forgotten: the sound of Latin America. Thierry Pécou is French, and his Latin America is the product of a creative fantasy that grew out of a desire to explore the nearly extinct Pre-Colombian cultures of Central and South America. Any assumption, however, that these are simply the exotic longings of a European culture tourist would be false. Pécou, who grew up in a Paris suburb and graduated from the Paris Conservatory, has Caribbean ancestors, and so his musical search for roots is also a personal journey of discovery. He is at home in two cultures. One is the culture of career and daily life; the other continues to exist only as a projection arising from the depths of the individual personality – a world which, not only for Pécou himself, has become impossibly distant in a cultural and historical sense. Thierry Pécou’s dreamed landscapes of sound can also be seen as an expression of this search for the ruins of a lost culture. With ritualistic repetitive structures, mysterious depths, and strongly physical sounds, his music conjures up an archaic past, but the colors he uses are those of a symphony orchestra, even though these colors are often placed in unusual or exotic constellations. “My position is somewhat ambiguous, because I am a European, even though I have certain roots in these places (Central America). At the same time, I also want to better understand the Mexican people and their history, for example, and hopefully contribute to the search for their own truth and their own roots.” - Thierry Pécou
Tracklist 4 tracks
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1 Orquoy 19:28
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Orquoy
- Duration
- 19:28
- Composer
- Thierry Pécou
- Ensemble
- Orchestre national de France
- Conductor
- Jonathan Stockhammer
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2 I. Rezó a Elegua 12:49
- Track
- 2
- Title
- I. Rezó a Elegua
- Duration
- 12:49
- Composer
- Thierry Pécou
- Ensemble
- Orchestre national de France
- Conductor
- Jonathan Stockhammer
-
3 II. Cantó a Changó 10:01
- Track
- 3
- Title
- II. Cantó a Changó
- Duration
- 10:01
- Composer
- Thierry Pécou
- Ensemble
- Orchestre national de France
- Conductor
- Jonathan Stockhammer
-
4 Marcha de la humanidad 23:27
- Track
- 4
- Title
- Marcha de la humanidad
- Duration
- 23:27
- Composer
- Thierry Pécou
- Ensemble
- Orchestre national de France
- Conductor
- Jonathan Stockhammer