Les musiques d’Urnos André Hamel

- Composer(s): André Hamel
- Performer(s): La Nef, Frédérike Bédard, Claire Gignac, Patrick Graham, Élise Guay, André Hamel, Pierre Langevin, Liette Remon
- Cover image: Martine Doyon
- Graphic design: Fabrizio Gilardino
- Canada Council for the Arts
De souffles et de machines, un album qui donne un nouveau souffle à la formule du quatuor de saxophones. — Revue & Corrigée, France
Les musiques d’Urnos sont la réponse de temps ancrés dans le présent d’un passé fantasmé à la beauté tumultueuse et captivante. Un opus d’ethno-musique poétique aux courbes utopiques hanté par l’imagination et le désir de faire rêver. Intriguant. — SilenceAndSound, France
In 1991, while carrying out research related to the writing of a work for bagpipes, I first learned of the Urnosian phenomenon: had a shepherding people, in the third millennia B.C., developed a form of musical notation? What a fascinating discovery! At that time, the scientific world agreed that it lent some credibility to the hypotheses of German archaeologist Alexander Von Stratten. This served as my point of departure for writing Deux pièces pour cornemuse. In 1994, British anthropologist Tom Blake advanced new hypotheses that opposed Von Stratten’s theories. It was based upon these new propositions that the Urnos collective conceived the performance they presented in 2004 and then re-staged in 2011. It took three years of effort by the team of innovators involved to bring the project to fruition. Multidisciplinary artist Guy Laramée reproduced their musical instruments as accurately as possible. Claire Gignac directed the musical workshops and Martine Beaulne conceived and then staged the narrative structure. My role entailed writing, for the reconstituted instruments, a music which could have been from this longlost people. How was I to approach this? How could one know? Yet, why not believe it possible, let oneself be transported by these sounds from the depths of time, and journey to the reaches of a collective memory possibly still well-inscribed in our genes? — André Hamel
- Collection QB
- CQB 1720 / 2017
- UPC/EAN 771028372027
- Total duration: 46:43
Stereo
- 44,1 kHz, 16 bits
- 1Nouvelle esquisse (2003), 2:15
- 2Genèse (2003), 5:17La Nef (Frédérike Bédard, voice; Claire Gignac, percussion; Patrick Graham, percussion; Élise Guay, ocarina; Pierre Langevin, ocarina; Liette Remon, Mexican whistle)
- 3Chasse (2003), 5:24
- 4Solitude (2003), 4:21La Nef (Claire Gignac, urnossean instrument (blowpipe))
- 5Désir (2003), 4:52La Nef (Frédérike Bédard, percussion; Claire Gignac, percussion; Patrick Graham, percussion; Élise Guay, urnossean instrument (peacock); Pierre Langevin, urnossean instrument (peacock); Liette Remon, percussion)
- 6Naissance (2003), 3:29
- 7Victoire (2004), 6:45La Nef (Claire Gignac, ocarina; Patrick Graham, percussion; Élise Guay, urnossean instrument (female peacock in coda); Pierre Langevin, urnossean instrument (male peacock); Liette Remon, ocarina)
- 8Immolation (2004), 9:41La Nef (Frédérike Bédard, voice; Claire Gignac, urnossean instrument (bumblebee); Patrick Graham, percussion; Élise Guay, urnossean instrument (bumblebee); Pierre Langevin, urnossean instruments (goat and turtles); André Hamel, urnossean instrument (hedgehog))
- 9bagpipeLa Nef (Élise Guay, bagpipes)
- Collection QB
- CQB 1720_NUM / 2017
- UPC/EAN 771028372089
- Total duration: 46:43
Stereo
- 44,1 kHz, 16 bits
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- 1Nouvelle esquisse (2003), 2:15
- 2Genèse (2003), 5:17La Nef (Frédérike Bédard, voice; Claire Gignac, percussion; Patrick Graham, percussion; Élise Guay, ocarina; Pierre Langevin, ocarina; Liette Remon, Mexican whistle)
- 3Chasse (2003), 5:24
- 4Solitude (2003), 4:21La Nef (Claire Gignac, urnossean instrument (blowpipe))
- 5Désir (2003), 4:52La Nef (Frédérike Bédard, percussion; Claire Gignac, percussion; Patrick Graham, percussion; Élise Guay, urnossean instrument (peacock); Pierre Langevin, urnossean instrument (peacock); Liette Remon, percussion)
- 6Naissance (2003), 3:29
- 7Victoire (2004), 6:45La Nef (Claire Gignac, ocarina; Patrick Graham, percussion; Élise Guay, urnossean instrument (female peacock in coda); Pierre Langevin, urnossean instrument (male peacock); Liette Remon, ocarina)
- 8Immolation (2004), 9:41La Nef (Frédérike Bédard, voice; Claire Gignac, urnossean instrument (bumblebee); Patrick Graham, percussion; Élise Guay, urnossean instrument (bumblebee); Pierre Langevin, urnossean instruments (goat and turtles); André Hamel, urnossean instrument (hedgehog))
- 9bagpipeLa Nef (Élise Guay, bagpipes)

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