Description
Kartenspiele (playing cards)
Il pleut à Paris (1994)
Music for Vibra- and Marimbaphone
Christopher Dell: Vibraphon & Marimbaphon
Label: Salto Records International
Editionsno.: fue 7003 SAL 7003
Price: 18,90 EUR
1. Relations
2. Le mineur
3. Rotation
4. On se touche quelquefois
5. Sans fin
6. Le triple accord
7. Les sons ont quitté leurs places
8. Des espaces: de l’un à l’autre
9. Les tons ne tiennent (plus) qu’à un fil
10. La barque balancé
11. Ruhepole
12. Pyramide
13. Sans fin
14. Improvisando
15. Kartenspiele 2
16. Reflet
17. Rendevouz
Barbara Heller composed the Kartenspiele – II pleut à Paris as a kind of diary during a stay in Paris in October 1994. The initial musical concept was triggered by the (post)card in its role as a travel accessory: small-scale drawings containing musical notation and lines of relation and motion offer a concise depiction of music renderable in diverse ways.
Christopher Deli has here recorded 17 of the 45 pieces, eight of them on the vibraphone, five on the marimbaphone and four on both together. In the folio-wing text, eighteen performers state their own personal experiences with Barbara Heller’s Kartenspiele. In this first recorded performance of Barbara Heller‘s Kartenspiele by the jazz-vibraphone player Christopher Deli one can recognize a sensitive dialogue between composer and performer.
