Bernard Parmegiani - Lac Noir - La Serpente 1992 [vinyl]

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unreleased material composed by Bernard Parmegiani in 1992.

Lac Noir - La Serpente is part of Emmanuel Raquin-Lorenzi's Lac Noir, a composite work inspired by a serpentine female creature or 'snake-woman' that he saw in Transylvania in 1976, with a total of 33 pieces using various media, 24 by himself and 9 by other artists. All the materials used in Lac Noir were gathered on the land of the snake-woman
between 1990 and 1992. The first coordinated broadcast ran from June to October 2019, like a theatrical display of media.

At the end of May 1992, in Provence, in his Summer studio not far from the Montagne Sainte-Victoire, Bernard Parmegiani played me the first musical moments he had worked on from the sounds he and Christian Zanési had collected in Negreni in October 1990. A few days after this listening session, on 4th June, I wrote him a letter. I didn't mean to take control of what was to become the ninth movement of his composition, but to share with him some of the resonances I had heard in what
he had composed, which mingled with my dreams and memories of the Transylvanian snake-woman, and outlined possible concordances with the other pieces underway for Lac Noir.

In the midst of the garish chaos of the fair and its spectacular stunts, there could spread out - still, silent eye of the cyclone - the long waters of a lake. Calm waters. Patches cool but sensitive as skin. Between the waters there flows and ripples, there shows up and dives again a snake-woman born of the still waters. A sweet, good serpent whose song - strange and melodious, sensual, yet already tinged, as if bitten by the black depths, with bitterness; that of prescience, shading it with melancholy - is her very undulation, the rings of which appear, together or in turn, the way translucent veins overlap, slither over one another in a moving braid of metamorphoses.
(extracts from notes by E. Raquin-Lorenzi)

tracklisting CD/LP
side 1
1. La traversée 07'48
2. La voix 15'37
3. Nature mêlée I 3'50
4. Nature mêlée II 3'40
5. Le cercle 2'41

side 2
6. Tsiganie 6'34
7. Rouge et Blanc 2'01
8. Marchand de cloches 5'01
9. La Serpente 11'00



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