ANTS RECORDS

Sabina Meyer, voice, objects; Marco Dalpane, piano.

This album comes from the love for Music. Contemporary

music, but also Songs. From the love for History and People.

From the observation of a stage before and after a concert.

And from Friendship and Collaboration.

Erik Satie and John Cage were two musicians of great

influence and supreme coherence. In their rigorous path

they choose the road to astonishment. On the road to their

artistic ideal they met the “music”, when others only loosely

saw it. Satie and Cage are, now historically, two composers to

draw near. And this approach comes from their enormous

artistic personality.

Sabina Meyer and Marco Dalpane are musicians of great

sensibility and skill and, simply, they catch all these aspects in

their performances. Satie comes so near to Cage and Cage

“slides” toward Satie. The interlacing of the pieces gives us a

path of reconstruction - as they want to show us. In “Cabaret

Per Nulla” each piece by Satie piece could be (would be?)

written by Cage and viceversa. “Vexations” seems as it comes

from the pen of the young Cage, and “In a landscape”

“belongs” to Satie, and to all of us. “She is asleep” and “La

Diva de L’Empire” are two faces of the same medal. And so

on.

This collection not only includes the music of two great

modern composers, but in it the performers perfectly

represent the community and presence of their efforts and

makes the experience of listening so coherent, letting us to

forgot all the differences - Times, Modes, Lifes - and allowing

to understand that big, astonishing common element: Art.

From the liner notes of Mario Gamba: “... In terms of a

critical analysis Meyer and Dalpane treat these light, amiable

and provocative works, of which only Aria (1958) by Cage can

evoke the drama one can imagine in the physical and

mental/emotional space of a cabaret, with a non-cabaretistic

approach. They don’t evoke in their music the cabaret

because they choose other tones and other moods. Committed,

as they are, to the music in a more complex and fundamental

way...”

track list

1) She is asleep (1943) (J. Cage) 7’48”

2) La Diva de “L'Empire” (1904) (E. Satie, Bonnaud e Blés) 2’54”

Trois poèmes d'amour

3) n. 1 (1914) (E. Satie) 0’44”

4) n. 2 (1914) (E. Satie) 0’40”

5) n. 3 (1914) (E. Satie) 0’46”

6) Vexations (1893) (E. Satie) 1’27” (versione parziale)

7) The wonderful widow of eighteen springs (1942) (J. Cage) 2’11”

8) Salut drapeau (1891) (E. Satie, Sar J. Peladan) 4’06”

9) Chanson, op. 52 (1888) (E. Satie, J. P. Contamine de Latour) 1’13”

10) Chanson médiéval (1906) (E. Satie, C. Mendes) 1’27”

11) Les Fleurs (1887) (E. Satie, J. P. Contamine de Latour) 1’29”

12) Je te veux (1897) (E. Satie, H. Pacory) 3’41”

13) In a landscape (1948) (J. Cage) 8’03”

14) Aria (1958) (J. Cage) 10’03”

15) Les Anges (1887) (E. Satie, J. P. Contamine de Latour) 1’45”

16) Elégie, op. 19 (1887) (E. Satie, J. P. Contamine de Latour) 2’29”

17) Sylvie (1887) (E. Satie, J. P. Contamine de Latour) 2’17”

released 29/04/2007