FLUTE
LANDSCAPES
Bechegas |
Preis
/ Price : 15.08 €
Bestell-Nr. / P/O No. : audEo
0298 |
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| Carlos
Bechegas |
acoustic flute, voice |
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All compositions by Carlos
Bechegas (SPA)
Recorded in the winter of 1996
Mastered by Joaquim P. Jacobetty
& Carlos Bechegas
Design: Gonçalo Calheiros
Photography: Pedro Martins |
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| First released in 1998 |
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| Excerpt from the booklet
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Having chosen the
effects and contemporary techniques of flute playing used in
classical composition during the last few decades both as a
working basis and a leitmotiv, I proposed to explore in this
record the lesser known features of said instrument, a dimension
not so soft and oniric as encountered in the traditional repertoire.
Getting hold of this rich material and transferring it to the
universe of improvisation, the objective search for other expressive
possibilities of the instrument was a challenge which, embodied
in countless takes, contributed to broaden both my language
and vocabulary. The working process and methodology centered,
on one hand, upon a researching attitude privileging the discovery
of new territories and forms of interpretation and, on the other
hand (…) upon the successive exploration of different materials
and techniques organized by thematic sections.
As the title FLUTE LANDSCAPES aims to express, the conceptual
and structuring profile of this record is characterized by a
multiplicity of flute ´landscapes´, suggested along
the sequence of themes in intentionally short and contrasted
images, in their organization and content - flashes, impressions,
registers of a multifarious life-story -, heterodox images which
are the product of an investment in the plasticity of sound,
in the possible metamorphosis of timbre, in the use of the voice
in sentences of abstract configuration due to the dense sequence
of various effects and contemporary techniques. (…)
FLUTE LANDSCAPES embodies a proposal based on the organic roughness
of the instrument, on the morphology of sound and on an obsessive
intention to discover … new landscapes. |
| Carlos
Bechegas |
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| (…) Carlos Bechegas
acknowledges the influence upon his practice of Evan Parker
or Derek Bailey, conceptual language marked by a lesser spontaneity,
by a despise of swing or blues intonation´s essenciality,
characteristic of many freejazzers. Thus he establishes himself
as one of the most reputed improvisators of the Portuguese musical
scene. |
| Manuel
Guimarães |
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