2024

HEAT CD and digital distribution
04/10/2024

HEAT - Thierry Zaboitzeff @ IMD-ZABMUSIC
Catalog number: zab5324

Composed, performed and recorded by Thierry Zaboitzeff between April and September 2024 in Salzburg (A).
Thierry Zaboitzeff: bass guitar, electric cello, vocals, keyboards, samplers, soundscapes and programming.

Cold Song by Henry Purcell (track 4) is adapted by Thierry Zaboitzeff and sung in his own emotional language based on timbres and articulations deeply linked to these rubbed, percussive, mysterious sounds like a forgotten language.

Liner notes : Denis Desassis
Visuals : Thierry Moreau

Being a visionary musician, Thierry Zaboitzeff is first and foremost a human being in touch with the realities of the world. He has long demonstrated the acuity of a perception that is both luminous and dark, serving the multiple types of music he inhabits. Let’s remember the dazzling panorama of his ‘50 ans de musique(s)’. At the controls of his electro-acoustic instrumentarium, writing the natural sequel to the deforestation alert that was ‘Le passage’, the composer once again mobilises his polyphony in chiaroscuro. As a breathtaking scenario of our humanity facing global warming, ‘Heat’ begins with an alarmist weather report sounding the death knell for a race against time. Thierry Zaboitzeff then unfurls the full range of possibilities, subjecting them to constant tension, arranging the relentless and mysterious scenario of a heatwave with no return. Deep beats, celestial colours, haunting voices from a nocturnal otherworld, sounds and colours of fire, consoling songs and dances... not forgetting the music of Henry Purcell's ‘Cold Song’ as a potential remedy! The effect of this empathetic epic on our hearts and souls is immediate and vital. It's the only kind of warming we'll be hoping and praying for.

Denis Desassis