Description
Title: Ispilu
Artist: Lore Amenabar Larranaga
Label: Metier
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 809730710827
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2023-09-08
Number of Discs: 1
Lore Larrañaga designed and commissioned a totally new instrument to explore how the accordion could express microtonal music and this is the first ever recording of this whole genre. A gratifyingly inventive listening experience, Ispilu marks the first recording of Basque accordionist Lore Amenabar Larrañaga”s self-designed quarter-tone accordion, custom built by Bugari Armando. Lore has engaged in a detailed investigation of her custom quarter-tone accordion, exploring it”s technical and sonic boundaries through the commissioning of a new body of collaborative works, written between 2020 and 2022, during her PhD studies at the Royal Academy of Music. Lore explains: “”The design of my instrument allows the production of quarter tones in both the right and left-hand manuals. The range and timbral possibilities of this instrument are expanded through the use of fifteen registers on the right manual and seven on the left manual, resulting in a sounding range of E-2 to B-quarter-sharp-6 in the right hand and E-1 to D-quarter-sharp-6 in the left. From Electra Perivolaris to Christopher Fox, Michael Finnissy to Mioko Yokoyama, this album will accommodate diverse textures, voices, and ideas; all gravitating around the Quarter-Tone Accordion””
Tracks:
1.1 Fleeting Puddles [09:18]
1.2 Barafostus” Dreame [08:48]
1.3 My Time Is Your Time [12:38]
1.4 Feast [05:05]
1.5 Permissible Self-Expression [17:10]
1.6 Der Stimme Der Stadt [10:09]
1.7 Crystalline Air [08:41]
1.8 L”eaurelle [04:59]
