ANTS RECORDS

Here the third and final chapter of “Schwingende Luftsäulen”

the series dedicated by Werner Durand to the Pan-Ney, the

wind instrument of his own invention. In confront with the

first two volumes this one represent a sort of flashback. In

fact the five pieces on the CD present “early” works, mainly

created in the first half of the 90s.

“Still Another Ocean” was composed in June /July1991 in Ile

de la Réunion, in the wonderful house of Frédéric Borne.

“M-Ocean” was composed in the summer of 1994 in the

summer house of Marika Falk in Bavaria.

“Pearldivers” was also created in the same time and place,

together with Marika Falk on talking drum. This is a re-mixed,

unedited version of the piece, originally released on the CD

“Drumming Breath”

“The Krems Five” is based on the piece “Dream Hunters” from

1990, and was created during a residency in Krems, Austria in

September/October 2011. A

“Another Still Ocean” is an extension of “Still Another

Ocean”. Created in the mid-nineties, it is the only one of my

Pan-Ney pieces in which I use a pre-recorded loop, which is

also sent through delays of 7 1/2 beats.

From the liner notes by Matthias Osterwold: "The outstanding

feature of (Werner Durand's) music is its paradoxical

ambivalence: it is immediately accessible and yet not easily

comprehensible. Its position between improvisation and

composition, between intuition and construction, between

stasis and movement literally hovers in the air. Its peculiar

charm is obtained from a delicate balance between the

archaic and the modern, between ritual trance and industrial

or ambient music, between acoustic performance and digital-

electronic processing in real time."

ANTS already released the first two volumes of “Schwingende

Luftsäulen”. You can get them here and here.

track list

1) Still Another Ocean 6:35

2) M-Ocean 15:24

3) Pearldivers 11:10

4) The Krems Five 10:47

5) Another Still Ocean 17:10

released 10/12/2020