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?Grand Cru 2008? offers a brilliant melange of known artits from our roster like Patrick Chardronnet Ripperton, Kollektiv Turmstrasse, Daso, Sebastian Roya and the two wonderful ladies from the Netherlands: Estroe and Zo?Xenia. Apart from that Connaisseur presents new outstanding talents like Art Bleek, Andr?s Garc?a, Wareika and Federleicht.
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A daunting test of the performers' concentration, control, and endurance, Morton Feldman's Patterns in a Chromatic Field for cello and piano is one of the most intricate chamber works of his late period. Composed in 1981, the year Feldman wrote the vast Triadic Memories for solo piano, Patterns in a Chromatic Field shares that work's expansiveness and some of its subdued coloration, but goes beyond it in terms of rhythmic activity and variety of combinations. Feldman's small, interlocking gestures ? inspired by designs in Asian carpets ? are spun out through a convoluted process of repetition, layering, and alternation with contrasting sonorities and shapes, and these juxtaposed figures cycle over 80 minutes to mesmerizing effect.
Andrade has a glamorous, cosmopolitan biography: she was born in Cuba to Cape Verdean parents; grew up in Senegal, Angola, Germany, and Cape Verde; and has been living in Paris since 2003. Most of the lyrics on Navega are sung in Cape Verdean Creole, which will sound like Brazilian Portuguese to most people. In fact, a lot of the music from Cape Verde will also sound Brazilian to most people. Aside from the historical and cultural ties between Cape Verde and Brazil, Andrade?s band is steeped in Brazilian instruments and sensibilities ? most notably, in the creative and tasteful work by percussionist Z? Luis Nascimento. There is, however, a distinct Cape Verdean aesthetic at work, and Andrade is the first star-power Cape Verdean export since the great Ces?ria ?vora "crossed over" in the 1990s
