ANTS RECORDS

Werner Durand "Schwingende Luftsäulen 2" (CD), the second

chapter dedicated to Durand's music applied to the Pan-Ney,

the wind instrument of his own invention.

With gorgeous artworks by Karlheinz Bux

(http://www.karlheinzbux.de) and extensive liner notes by

Adelio Fusé.

From the liner notes:

"Schwingende Luftsäulen 2 is the second chapter of a trilogy

featuring the Pan-Ney with its tubes or columns of vibrating

air (Schwingende Luftsäulen, in fact).

This second chapter, in which the Pan-Ney is flanked by the

tenor sax, reconnects where the first one ends (ANTS, 2017),

and proceeds along a path that is coherent and uniform, and

whose imaginative ideas go beyond the strictly musical

sphere.

(...)

Wald (forest) is the centerpiece of the three works that make

up Schwingende Luftsäulen 2.

It is the forest with its multiple meanings, real and symbolic,

mythological, religious, literary, folkloric. The forest as a

place that is sacred or magical, dreamlike or fairy-tale.

A place of adventure and misadventure, to trek through with

a view toward growth or rebirth.

(...)

In Spiegel (Mirror), dedicated to the Tonaliens Ensemble, the

Pan-Ney and the tenor saxophone weave a layered dialogue in

which they call and respond to each other. Not only. In their

‘mirroring conversation' the two instruments seem to suggest

a choreography. Durand's music stands out for its ability to

make some 'scenes' visible. In the dance evoked in Spiegel,

the gestures - and perhaps even the bodies - appear

suspended and rarefied, just as the music is suspended and

rarefied, while, during listening, time expands beyond the

duration of the piece. Music and dance remain there, in

midair, even at the end of the ritual.

(...)

Panga, for Pan-Ney, tenor sax and digital delay, contains an

allusion to nature. Panga (note the morpheme “pan”, which

refers to Durand’s instrument) is the name of a plant that

grows in New Zealand but that occurs in the botany of other

areas of the planet (for example, in the Amazon) in

connection with ancient practices both pharmacological and

aphrodisiac. But the plant could easily belong to a manual of

imaginary botany, if one thinks that nature, for Durand, is

both a source of real inspiration and a place to reinvent

according to subjective visions and coordinates."

track list

1) Spiegel 9:55

2) Wald 36:38

3) Panga 13:27

released 23/03/2019