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Artist: Mike Patton And Luciano Berio
Album: Laborintus II
Label: Ipecac
Playtime: 32:09 min
Genre: Ambient
URL: http://www.ipecac.com
Rip date: 2012-08-02
Street date: 2012-07-24
Size: 56.06 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 229 kbps / 4410Hz / Joint Stereo
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Captured on this CD is a remarkable performance of Laborintus II, only the
third recording released to the public since it was first performed in 1965.
Described as a music theatre work by its pioneering composer Luciano Berio
(1925-2003), the avant garde piece was commissioned by the national radio
agency of France to celebrate the 700-year anniversary of the birth of Dante
Alighieri in 1265. Making its world premiere on French radio network ORTF in
September 1965, Laborintus II is an edgy audial montage of voices,
instrumentation and tape.
Laborintus II was inspired by the writings of Dante scholar Edoardo
Sanguineti, who wrote the accompanying libretto. Whereas Berio was renowned
for layering sounds and overlapping musical genres in his compositions,
Italian poet Sanguineti employed the same patchwork and overlap technique with
the words he used, the sources he drew from and the images his writing evoked
for Berio s musical works. Pulling from his original work of poetry
Laborintus, published in 1956, Sanguineti also wove in lines from Dante, T.S.
Eliot, Ezra Pound, St. Isidore of Seville and the Bible for Laborintus II to
highlight the timelessness of love and mourning, usury and revolt, all of
which are interlinking themes in this work. In short, Laborintus II is a
modern plunge into the layers of hell, specifically the Inferno that Dante
immortalized in The Divine Comedy.
Conducted by Georges-Elie Octors, this live performance of Laborintus II at
the 2010 Holland Festival in Amsterdam was narrated by another pioneer in
experimental music, esteemed vocalist Mike Patton, best known as lead singer
of American post-punk band Faith No More. Dutch choir Nederlands Kamerkoor
provided the haunting female voices and chorus, while Brussels-based Ictus
Ensemble performed the musical accompaniment to this work that is considered
one of Berio's masterpieces work as well as the great experimenter's most
unusual creation.
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01. Part One (11:38)
02. Part Two (15:03)
03. Part Three ( 5:28)
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