L’Instant Donné & Marion Tassou - Cherche titre: Music by Mikel Urquiza (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Acclaimed ensemble L’Instant Donné presents "Cherche titre", an album of world-premiere recordings of music by Spanish composer Mikel Urquiza, who just received the Composers’ Prize 2022 of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. Full of verve and sparkle, Mikel Urquiza’s music delicately flirts with burlesque, twists melodies and toys with clichés, a playfulness well suited to this ensemble.

Mikel Urquiza studied composition with fellow Odradek artist Ramon Lazkano; in 2019, Urquiza was sponsored by the Peter Eötvös Contemporary Music Foundation and in 2020 became resident of the Académie de France in Rome – Villa Médicis. Working without a conductor, L'Instant Donné was founded in 2002 and is located in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis), Paris, in a vast studio equipped with an extensive range of instruments.

The scores drawn together on this album brim with joyful musical tricks and discoveries, teeming with incongruous gestures that create a sense of amusement ingeniously governed by a coherent system of rules. Mikel Urquiza’s music takes shape with great definition of timbre and an extreme precision of narrative, phrasing and rhythmic accuracy.

As L'Instant Donné put it in the album booklet, this music demands that they “find a common alchemy – a mixture of rigour and fantasy, constraint and flexibility – to transcend the rules of the game in order to give body and life to this alert, mischievous, sometimes strange music which owes nothing to chance. And this is precisely what drives us at L’Instant Donné: finding common breath in music. Mikel Urquiza understands this perfectly and offers us scores that fully exploit the potential of our ensemble”.

Tracklist:
1. Marion Tassou – I nalt be clode on the frolt: I. Cherche titre (02:46)
2. Marion Tassou – I nalt be clode on the frolt: II. Cherche femme (02:33)
3. Marion Tassou – I nalt be clode on the frolt: III. Cherche maison (02:44)
4. Marion Tassou – I nalt be clode on the frolt: IV. Vend maison (02:15)
5. L’Instant Donné – I nalt be clode on the frolt: V. The wind that blows is all that anybody knows (02:16)
6. L’Instant Donné – Contrapluma (06:36)
7. L’Instant Donné – Cinq pièges brefs: I. Appeau (01:10)
8. L’Instant Donné – Cinq pièges brefs: II. Hameçon (01:31)
9. L’Instant Donné – Cinq pièges brefs: III. Collet (01:45)
10. L’Instant Donné – Cinq pièges brefs: IV. Miroir (01:05)
11. L’Instant Donné – Cinq pièges brefs: V. Filet (02:45)
12. L’Instant Donné – Serpientes y escaleras (serenata) (09:46)
13. L’Instant Donné – Les lueurs se sont multipliées: Prologue (01:31)
14. L’Instant Donné – Les lueurs se sont multipliées: I. Stanza di Livia (02:36)
15. L’Instant Donné – Les lueurs se sont multipliées: II. Clair de lune au bosco (02:47)
16. L’Instant Donné – Les lueurs se sont multipliées: III. Les lueurs se sont multipliées. Épilogue (03:41)
17. L’Instant Donné – Zintzil (08:28)


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