This album is the first one signed by the quartet on its own: an amazing record, called Alos Quartet as well, where they introduce pieces by Xabier Zeberio and also by the northern composers Steve Dobrogosz and Terje Bjorklund. The result is a delicate and innovative atmosphere in a work very carefully done in all aspects.
Alos Quartet gets a high mark in the challenge of presenting the string quartet as a soloist voice. They achieve it thanks to a unique character, by being audacious and creating an original sonority of their own. Dynamism and expressivity in an album that doesn’t mean to be similar to any other: no more and no less than their vision, unique and it is just their intensely personal vision of contemporary music.
"At first I had no clear idea what to work with or how -acoustic or electronic.... I composed the string quartet in three movements and, this being my first string quartet, I hedged my bets and basically kept to an estabilished and easy read format...."
Este es el segundo album de Pascal Gaigne después de El Sol del Membrillo, con 11 composiciones frescas y coloridas en las que destacan una madurez técnica y emocional.
La presencia de Antonio Pinheiro ( Madredeus, Rodrigo Leao ) en la produciión y un grupo de músicos de élite del conservatorio de Toulouse y de la Opera de Paris ( Jean-François Verdier, Clarinete ) y figuras como Andrew Cronshaw ( Sitar y Concertin ) y Karlos Gimenez al piano, junto otros, augura la riqueza de un proyecto singular concebido en su integridad por NO-CD Rekords.
