SHORT SERIES OF ARRANGED PIANO
by Watine
Florian Claude (Barclau)
Florian Claude (Barclau)
J'aime l'album intégralement, c'est une oeuvre qui conjugue l'intime et l'universel. Nous sommes invités discrètement dans un univers personnel qui finit par nous englober. Un disque précieux et rare, sensitif.
Favorite track: ODDS AND ENDS.
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital AlbumGreat Artwork by VEL
Includes unlimited streaming of SHORT SERIES OF ARRANGED PIANO via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.ships out within 15 daysedition of 100€14 EUR or more
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Record/Vinyl + Digital AlbumBeautiful artwork by VEL
(release DEC, 5th 2024)
Includes unlimited streaming of SHORT SERIES OF ARRANGED PIANO via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.ships out within 15 daysedition of 50€25 EUR or more
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DELUXE very limited edition (released by TIME RELEASED SOUND) sold out for Europe - let's go to TRS bandcamp
Record/Vinyl + Digital AlbumWe hope to have a release for February 2024
Each vinyl will be different from the other (50)
Images will come .... We keep in touch
Includes unlimited streaming of SHORT SERIES OF ARRANGED PIANO via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Sold Out
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SOUL SPEAKING
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EARLY DAYS
03:58
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ALL OVER THE PLACE
05:32
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MIST OF LIFE
02:37
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ODDS AND ENDS
07:19
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FEELS LIKE A BREATH
04:17
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TENDRE BRUME
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FOLIE PIANO
03:34
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I have the pleasure to announce a DELUXE album, with my partner in USA, TIME RELEASED SOUND.
Only 50 copies, handmade, each one is different...
Just wait to know the price....
I'll inform you as soon as possible.
"The difference between desolation and sadness lies in the distance at which the one who has been lost stands. On each piece by Catherine Watine, the ear measures this progressive distance from memory and the comfort it provides. The space between the notes is sometimes so vast and filled with chasms, crackles and death-cheating sounds that it sometimes feels like being in a dream or invited to a seance. Wounded soldier gazing at the warm battlefield. Peasant walking in front of the smoky misty plain in the clear morning of a spring day. Lover who covers the bed unmade and abandoned by the one who stood there yesterday. Musician lost on the deck of the Titanic, while the canoes move away, like with Gavin Bryars, of whom one cannot help but think that the work of Catherine Watine is the feminine replica, like a mirage of beauty placed at our feet.
Our fingers touch those of the pianist who is playing. They slide on the vegetal ivory at the same time as her, so that we are both the ear and the hand that plays. Short Series of Arranged Piano resonates so intimately that it sometimes makes us believe that we are the author and that what we hear is playing inside us. It is no small wonder to be so close while sailing so far. We come here for the mystery.
We would imagine it like this: A curtain moves, fleetingly revealing a face behind a window. A diffused light draws the contours of her hair, shading the contrasts. She looks outside, unseen, tries to capture meaning in the random movements that punctuate this street that she stares at. Then goes back to translate his impressions on his piano. The curtain, the light, the window, the piano. Fixed elements, referring to an imaginary impossible to date. As if since Chopin or Debussy, the representation crystallized in a naturalistic painting, which would not forget to evoke a theme as major as it is timeless: loneliness.
But what loneliness? The one we pretend to flee or the one we are looking for? The one that refocuses or the one that disperses?
The one who skips in “Early days” on a keyboard that becomes nostalgic hopscotch, hesitating between earth and sky, body and mind? It must be no coincidence that “Folie Piano” seems to invoke the late Esbjörn Svensson, a pianist with an ingrained groove and celestial melodies. And since Catherine Watine likes to play with time, she takes the opportunity to have fun with eras and take us on a journey to romantic land in “Feels like a breath”, spinning the theme of breath and time on this sequence of final titles. Recalling that life is this short silence between two notes, between two hands.
While the left hand lays its foundations in the Earth, the right questions the sky. They meet to exchange their discoveries in the center of the keyboard before leaving to explore their borders. No border will stop them, because if they play in a frame, their combinations are endless. Especially since they are having fun with our best enemy. Because they understood, the hands, that making a friend of them was the key to infinity." (Florian Claude)
"Un album centré plus que jamais autour du piano. Tout juste réhaussé, discrètement accompagné par des sons non identifiés, de rares cordes, des arrangements aussi sophistiqués que pertinents. Ils tressent aux côtés du jeu de Watine d'inspirantes échappées. Autant d'éléments qui renforcent la dimension contemporaine d'une musicienne que l'on aurait bien vu membre du groupe des Six, si elle avait vécu au début du XXème siècle.
A l'instar de ces artistes, et de leur inspirateur Satie, Watine semble avoir trouvé, ici, la clef d'une musique sans âge, libérée totalement des modes, mais également d'un conformisme sclérosant. Rien n'est plus vibrant et moderne, dans le sens le plus fort, que ces morceaux nourris d'une époque fragmentée. Une époque qui ne cesse de redécouvrir le passé, et de le réagencer sous le poids d'une technologie toujours plus puissante.
Il ne s'agit donc pas de refuser ce mouvement, ni d'en adopter aveuglément les facilités parfois terrifiantes, parfois vertigineuses. Il s'agit de replacer l'individu dénué d'artifice au cœur de la création. Pour ne jamais perdre le sens profond de son humanité. Rien n'est plus avant-gardiste que cette démarche-là.
Les 'Short Series' sont composées dans ce matériau. A la fois néoclassiques et totalement contemporaines, elles convoquent l'âme de Satie pour la projeter dans l'univers d'une compositrice plus touchante que jamais.
Plus proche que jamais d'une certaine épure, pour ne pas écrire perfection. Où se mêlent minimalisme et musique répétitive, apparitions sonores fantomatiques et inquiétantes, lumières quasiment romantiques.
Voici le disque d'un temps traversé par des progrès extraordinaires, des peurs tenaces. Le disque d'un nouveau temps qui s'annonce dans la souffrance et l'espoir."
(Yan Kouton)
Only 50 copies, handmade, each one is different...
Just wait to know the price....
I'll inform you as soon as possible.
"The difference between desolation and sadness lies in the distance at which the one who has been lost stands. On each piece by Catherine Watine, the ear measures this progressive distance from memory and the comfort it provides. The space between the notes is sometimes so vast and filled with chasms, crackles and death-cheating sounds that it sometimes feels like being in a dream or invited to a seance. Wounded soldier gazing at the warm battlefield. Peasant walking in front of the smoky misty plain in the clear morning of a spring day. Lover who covers the bed unmade and abandoned by the one who stood there yesterday. Musician lost on the deck of the Titanic, while the canoes move away, like with Gavin Bryars, of whom one cannot help but think that the work of Catherine Watine is the feminine replica, like a mirage of beauty placed at our feet.
Our fingers touch those of the pianist who is playing. They slide on the vegetal ivory at the same time as her, so that we are both the ear and the hand that plays. Short Series of Arranged Piano resonates so intimately that it sometimes makes us believe that we are the author and that what we hear is playing inside us. It is no small wonder to be so close while sailing so far. We come here for the mystery.
We would imagine it like this: A curtain moves, fleetingly revealing a face behind a window. A diffused light draws the contours of her hair, shading the contrasts. She looks outside, unseen, tries to capture meaning in the random movements that punctuate this street that she stares at. Then goes back to translate his impressions on his piano. The curtain, the light, the window, the piano. Fixed elements, referring to an imaginary impossible to date. As if since Chopin or Debussy, the representation crystallized in a naturalistic painting, which would not forget to evoke a theme as major as it is timeless: loneliness.
But what loneliness? The one we pretend to flee or the one we are looking for? The one that refocuses or the one that disperses?
The one who skips in “Early days” on a keyboard that becomes nostalgic hopscotch, hesitating between earth and sky, body and mind? It must be no coincidence that “Folie Piano” seems to invoke the late Esbjörn Svensson, a pianist with an ingrained groove and celestial melodies. And since Catherine Watine likes to play with time, she takes the opportunity to have fun with eras and take us on a journey to romantic land in “Feels like a breath”, spinning the theme of breath and time on this sequence of final titles. Recalling that life is this short silence between two notes, between two hands.
While the left hand lays its foundations in the Earth, the right questions the sky. They meet to exchange their discoveries in the center of the keyboard before leaving to explore their borders. No border will stop them, because if they play in a frame, their combinations are endless. Especially since they are having fun with our best enemy. Because they understood, the hands, that making a friend of them was the key to infinity." (Florian Claude)
"Un album centré plus que jamais autour du piano. Tout juste réhaussé, discrètement accompagné par des sons non identifiés, de rares cordes, des arrangements aussi sophistiqués que pertinents. Ils tressent aux côtés du jeu de Watine d'inspirantes échappées. Autant d'éléments qui renforcent la dimension contemporaine d'une musicienne que l'on aurait bien vu membre du groupe des Six, si elle avait vécu au début du XXème siècle.
A l'instar de ces artistes, et de leur inspirateur Satie, Watine semble avoir trouvé, ici, la clef d'une musique sans âge, libérée totalement des modes, mais également d'un conformisme sclérosant. Rien n'est plus vibrant et moderne, dans le sens le plus fort, que ces morceaux nourris d'une époque fragmentée. Une époque qui ne cesse de redécouvrir le passé, et de le réagencer sous le poids d'une technologie toujours plus puissante.
Il ne s'agit donc pas de refuser ce mouvement, ni d'en adopter aveuglément les facilités parfois terrifiantes, parfois vertigineuses. Il s'agit de replacer l'individu dénué d'artifice au cœur de la création. Pour ne jamais perdre le sens profond de son humanité. Rien n'est plus avant-gardiste que cette démarche-là.
Les 'Short Series' sont composées dans ce matériau. A la fois néoclassiques et totalement contemporaines, elles convoquent l'âme de Satie pour la projeter dans l'univers d'une compositrice plus touchante que jamais.
Plus proche que jamais d'une certaine épure, pour ne pas écrire perfection. Où se mêlent minimalisme et musique répétitive, apparitions sonores fantomatiques et inquiétantes, lumières quasiment romantiques.
Voici le disque d'un temps traversé par des progrès extraordinaires, des peurs tenaces. Le disque d'un nouveau temps qui s'annonce dans la souffrance et l'espoir."
(Yan Kouton)
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released December 25, 2023
Artwork : VEL
Artwork : VEL
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