“After an extreme exploration of wind instruments from all over the world (hulusi, khen, rhadong, cromorne or moceño) for Le Corps Utopique, Laurent Pernice is now tackling strings. And especially the viola of Violaine Sutan, a teacher at the Marseille Conservatory of Music, who was willing to play along with the composer’s penchant for experimentation. The sound of her instrument, while sometimes very clear and simple, interpreting melodies of a elegant beauty akin to that of classical music, is often turned on its head, slowed down, overdriven, to create textures conducive to the atmosphere of this or that part of the play. It is in these experiments that the music of Antigone breaks away from purely illustrative music to become a personal album in its own right by Laurent Pernice. Intrumentally, he takes an active part in the performance, playing bass, double bass, zither and harp himself… At times reminiscent of the atmospheres created by John Lurie for Jim Jarmusch’s film Stranger Than Paradise, the tracks on the CD follow one another to build a kind of abstract narrative, as if to recreate the continuity of Sophocles’ play without the text. They take you on a journey of an absolute tragedy, while revealing the infinite complexity of the human being”. (ADN)

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“Since 1988, the date of the release of Détails, his first album, Laurent Pernice has gradually built up his battlefield, which is not far from extending to the whole planet. A multi-instrumentalist (bass, double bass, keyboards, erhu, percussion), he has produced nearly twenty albums in France, Belgium, Germany, Russia, Slovenia and Sweden, not to mention collaborations and compilations (Brazil, Japan, Australia…). In parallel to his personal work, he regularly works with the Artonik company (with which he performs all over the world), the experimental group Palo Alto and the science fiction writer Alain Damasio. [...] Born in Brittany, [Dominique Beven] studied Celtic music from 1975. He then toured Europe with the bagadou of Lann-Bihoué and Lorient. From 1982 onwards, he moved towards a fusion of traditional and electric instruments. His arrival in Marseilles in 1992, where many communities live together, allowed this self-taught jack-of-all-trades to make numerous encounters and to diversify his approach to music. Multi-instrumentalist, he plays wind instruments (flutes, oboe, khen, bagpipes…), strings (guitar, dan n’guyet, mandolin…) and hand and stick percussion (drum, bodhran, bendir…)” (ADN Records)

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“Masche ensemble was born in Canavese in 2013, and plays a blend of electronics and jazz-rock improvisation. Being the group very open and liquid at the beginning, it acquired at some point a permanent line-up including Andrea Chiuni (bass), Valerio Zucca Paul (electronics), Cirstina Trotto Gatta (voice), Diego Rosso (drums) and Alessandro Cartolari (baritone sax). In 2017 Masche recorded a debut album, Kalvingrad, issued in 2018 by ADN Records and Wallace Records. In 2019 Masche joined other Wallace bands for the album dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the label – Tracce XX – and after this issuing Cristina Trotto Gatta left the group. Oxia Chaos is Masche’s second album, a new step of a personal path balancing between organization and extemporary instinct, and has been recorded and mixed at Rubedo Recordings (Turin) by Manuel Volpe. Oxia Chaos is inspired by The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, and is an attempt to express an honest synthesis of the different sonic souls of the 4 musicians.” (ADN Records / Cruel Nature Records)