| 1. Tzungentwist |
| 2. My Within |
| 3. Avoiding Shopping |
| 4. Birken |
| 5. Disaster |
| 6. Stop No. 394 Falkirk Street |
| 7. Kuchen Keiki Cake |
| 8. Aikokuka |
| 9. Heimat |
| 10. Prologue |
| 11. Funeral |
| 12. Birthday Mister |
| 13. Overture |
Before the Libretto,The Lappetites,Quecksilber Germany,Dance Music,Electronic,Experimental Techno,Pop
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Jean Françaix: Le roi nu; Les desmoiselles de la nuit
Manufacturer: Hyperion UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD  Ballets
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ASIN: B0007NLHMU Release Date: 2005-04-12 |
Customer Reviews:
Atmospheric Ballets.......2005-06-03
The ballet Le roi nu (The Naked King) was based on Hans Christian Anderson's The Emperor's New Clothes and was premiered in 1936 at the Paris Opera Ballet with Serge Lifar doing the corrriagraphy and dancing the role of the king. The ballet has been considered as Lifar's greatest achievement. The music is well-suited to the subject, colorful and expressive. The music tells the story perfectly, down to the laughter when the king, believing himself to be dressed to perfection, is found to be naked by the members of the court.
The other ballet on this disc, Les demoiselles de la nuit (The Ladies of the Night), is termed a ballet for cats in two scenes and was premiered in 1948. The action concerns several cats that mimic human behavior. The chief male cat named Baron de Grotius intends to wed a beautiful white kitten named Agathe; but she is in love with a human violinist. The marriage to the Baron takes place, provided with a nicely written procession and ceremony music. However, through her love of the violinist, Agathe becomes human herself but keeps falling back into her feline ways - most notably when she kills a bird. Agathe also has problems preventing herself from joining the nocturnal cavorting of her cat companions; the cats are chased by the violinist who falls to his death. The ballet ends with Agathe curling up next to the body of the violinist to show her devotion. Agathe was danced at the premiere by a young Margot Fonteyn. The ballet is evocative of moon-lit nights - a nocturne opens (and also closes) the first scene. The dances are playful and romantic with a touch of feline stylization to the melodies that nicely describe the cat's world in music.
Jean Francaix was truly in his element when writing his ballets. The dances are colorful and beautifully orchestrated. This is a pleasant disc that anyone interested in French music will want to have.
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Before the Libretto
The Lappetites Manufacturer: Quecksilber Germany ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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ASIN: B000AOENFO Release Date: 2005-10-25 |
Tracks:
- Tzungentwist
- My Within
- Avoiding Shopping
- Birken
- Disaster
- Stop No. 394 Falkirk Street
- Kuchen Keiki Cake
- Aikokuka
- Heimat
- Prologue
- Funeral
- Birthday Mister
- Overture
Customer Reviews:
a curious and curiously appealing record.......2005-12-11
Ryoko Kuwajima sounds a bit like Tujiko Noriko....wafting in and out with spoken bits and scraps of private song. Whenever it strikes her fancy, while the others weave a playful prickly and peculiar musical bed for all of the strange vocalisations. Very hard to describe what's going on, totally alien sounding but at the same time, so inviting you just want to touch and fold and feel and try to figure out what the heck is going on.
The sounds are gentle, but not soft, crunchy, but not hard, like diving into a swiming pool full of autumn leaves, then running through the forest naked. The separate parts sound a little like puzzle pieces forced into the wrong places, a curious hodgepodge of ill fitting pieces, but together thay have some strange poetry, it's what makes this all sound so charming. The parts and pieces and sonic fragments don't mesh, but somehow....that's what makes it work. The cover is quite striking as well, a creepy fleshy tongue flower that inspires lot of "hmms" and "eeews" from customers when it's in the 'Now Playing' slot on our counter. Highly recommended, a curious and curiously appealing record.
Digitally deconstructed meanderings from a female laptop quartet.......2005-11-25
The music of The Lappetites is pretty difficult to label, mainly because it inhabits a world where rhythm and melody don't play any real major part. In fact, this release may very well be one of the more fractured albums I've heard in a long, long time, sounding like a glitched-out art installation project that combines improvised laptop mashes, found sound, spoken word, deconstructed hip-hop, ambient, and several other styles all run through the sonic blender. Words are chopped-up, blips and bleeps fly to and fro, and shattered beats stutter along like they're on their last leg (when they're even recognizable as a rhythm).
As a rough sort of guide to how things go on the release, "Tzungentwist" opens the album with cut-up bits of Japanese words while electronic washes scuffle and shard in the background. "My Within" follows with harsh washes of electronic noise before fluttering into more welcoming sections of off-kilter tonal blends with more cut-up and panned spoken word. There's not a whole lot of flow to the disc as it progresses either, as just about every weird element one could imagine gets tossed into the fray.
"Disaster" sounds like dark, almost industrial-inspired ambient while "Prologue" gets locked into some sort of glitched-out modem meltdown freakout. Amongst the chaos, there are some rather inspired moments, as on the harsh coupling of traditional Eastern instrumentation and almost Mego-like digital breakdowns of "Aikokuka," but as a whole the thirteen track, and over fifty minute album is a bit of a chore unless you're feeling like a real challenge (including more than one song that sounds like it ends right in the middle). If I'm feeling like listening to enjoyable music from four women electronic musicians, I'll just go with 4 Women No Cry.
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