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Denis Dufour: Avalanche

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Catalogue No.
0015088KAI
Label
KAIROS
EAN
9120010280887
Genre
Piano
About

In nineteen movements of varying lengths and moods, Denis Doufour’s monumental piano piece “Avalanche” invites us on a voyage across the infinite variation of the forms taken by snow, and the rich vocabulary established by the Innuits for it since their arrival on Greenland, the continent of ice. At work in this piece is a transposition, inspired by morphologies, of a certain kind of energy onto the relationships between the physical and musical realms. Thanks to his practice as a performer on analogue synthesizers, especially in the TM+ ensemble in the 80s, Denis Dufour developed this ability to see through our hearing, allowing him to distance himself from the reflexes of and dependence on preconceived clichés in sound phenomena. Denis Dufour is a craftsman of music, who, for the sake of a demanding and effusive finishing, invites us to immerse ourselves in the world of our own ears.

Release Date
Format
CD
Denis Dufour
Avalanche, Op. 82 (1995)
1.
Aperdlaut (first snow)
00:02:07
2.
Aput (snow on the ground)
00:02:19
3.
Quaniit (falling snow)
00:02:42
4.
Kanik (powdery, falling snow)
00:03:05
5.
Apivok (large snowflakes)
00:01:08
6.
Persok (snow flurry)
00:01:05
7.
Masak (wet snow)
00:03:25
8.
Pugak (crusty snow)
00:01:55
9.
Quinek (melted snow)
00:03:31
10.
Aput aajivitseq (eternal snow)
00:07:20
11.
Kanigpok (resting snow)
00:03:34
12.
Makornat (icy snow blown by the wind)
00:02:09
13.
Mangerkak (crusty, frozen snow formed into waves by the wind)
00:00:55
14.
Kinernek (wavelets of snow formed on the glacier)
00:01:32
15.
Kakak persopok (smoking mountain)
00:02:01
16.
Alittineq (stepp slope of snowdrifts)
00:02:16
17.
Paarwaq (gusts of snow)
00:02:12
18.
Piseeq (snow shelters for hunters)
00:02:46
19.
Ittinngaq (igloo)
00:07:24

This track cannot be purchased individually and is only available with the full album.

Total Time
00:55:44