Les Stances a Sophie

Les Stances a Sophie

Les Stances a Sophie

ASIN: B00004Y1YH

Track Listings
 
1. Theme De Yoyo
2. Theme De Celine
3. Variations Sur Un Theme De Monteverdi (I)
4. Variations Sur Un Theme De Monteverdi (Ii)
5. Proverbes (I)
6. Theme Amour Universal
7. Theme Libre
8. Proverbes (Ii)

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Les Stances a Sophie
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Les Stances a Sophie
 Les Stances a Sophie
The Art Ensemble of Chicago with Fontella Bass
Manufacturer: Universal Sound
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004Y1YH
Release Date: 2004-11-15

Tracks:

  1. Theme de Yoyo
  2. Theme de Celine
  3. Variations Sur un Theme de Monteverdi I
  4. Variations Sur un Theme de Monteverdi II
  5. Proverbes, No. 1
  6. Theme Amour Universal
  7. Theme Libre
  8. Proverbes, No. 2

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Les Stances a Sophie.......2007-04-15

Imaginary films are always the best films, because they give no opportunity for self-aggrandizing film-stars or penny-pinching producers to ruin things. "Les Stances A Sophie" is a soundtrack album to a film that stands, as the album liner notes state, as "one of the most obscure French New Wave films ever made". The music is unfortunately equally obscure, which is a shame: a glorious cacophony of riotous avant-jazz, complete with Lester Bowie's wife Fontella ("Rescue Me") Bass as well as Bowie and Roscoe Mitchell.

"Theme de Yoyo" sounds like subversive's take on a blaxploitation flick, complete with a fantastic, relentlessly funky brass attack and Bass's strange (and often obscene) lyrics. "Theme De Celine" is a blast of Bowie's trumpet, augmented with a deceptively disciplined performance on drums by Don Moye. "Variations...(I)" slows things down to an almost funereal, Medieval cadence; cowbells and clarinet create a sort of Mariarchi take on Henry Purcell's sober and magnificent "Dido And Aeneas". "Variations...(II)" turns left again thanks to a sultry trumpet solo from Bowie and Mitchell's flute, and "Proverbes (I)" continues this theme, adding sweeping piano and percussives. "Theme Amour Universal" sounds like jungle mating calls made by stranded voices and augmented by pattering maracas and a strongly Middle Eastern saxes. "Theme Libre" is a longer number, going back to the abstract, richly textural nature of Mitchell's "Sound" before building into a furious onslaught which fully does justice to its title. Closer "Proverbes (II)" brings back Bass with an enigmatic and concise vocal.

Altogether, an intriguing and little-known work that stands as a cohesive album instead of just another soundtrack curio.
Les Trésors Caché de l'Opera Français
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    		Les Trésors Caché de l'Opera Français
    Georges Bizet , Camille Saint-Saëns , Jules Massenet , Fromental Halévy , Charles Gounod , Giacomo Meyerbeer , Gabriel Fauré , Ernest Reyer , Jean-Luc Tingaud , and Anne-Sophie Schmidt
    Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B0000560O0
    Release Date: 2001-03-13

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