Originally, Abhra ? Sanskrit word for the atmosphere, the emptiness? - was commissioned by the Centre International des Musiques Nomades and the Festival D?tours de Babel in Grenoble, France, in 2014. Six improvisers (from France, Italy, Irlande and England), mix their own cultures and their common interest for sound matters, around texts written by Henry David Thoreau - american philosopher, poet and scholar born in 1817. Thoreau puts nature at the centre of his thought, from what he extracts a moral - praise to the independence, to the simplicity, to the hedonistic asceticism? To be and settle in the world, let?s just breath, taste, touch, look, listen to the silence, feel, contemplate, observe? The work on Thoreau?s diary is the heart of Abhra?s music, that plunges one in a delicate, intimiste universe, in which the role of the voice, the timbre, the resonant or the renewal of the forms of the song are the main concerns.
Tracks:
1. The river speaks 04:49
2. Where are the banks of time 03:19
3. This is where the sea ends 07:43
4. My entire occupation 03:39
5. And beyond both edges, it is still raining 06:42
6. Birds are taught by the snow 08:17
7. Fable of fables 06:05
