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
Photo credits on this page : Thierry Moreau - Bettina Frenzl
Exciting sextet with elements of acrobatics, dance and drama about isolation and conformism, the pressure of competition and the power of solidarity on the margins of our society.
by editta braun company (A)
Broken, but together. Not useful to society. They wear their clothes in layers on top of each other.
They are people like you and me. Vulnerable, anxious, peculiar. Occasionally aggressive. Sometimes happy. Solidary. Selfish.
Will they throw their lostnesses together? Will they show solidarity? Fight with each other instead of against each other? Their powerlessness, added together, would be an enormous force. A threat and a promise at the same time.
Sometimes surreal and dreamlike in isolation, sometimes furiously whirling in a group: the top-class six-member ensemble combines acrobatics, synchronised rhythmic group choreographies and acting elements to create poetic and exciting variations on isolation and conformism, the pressure of competition and the power of solidarity on the margins of our society.
Underdogs
premiere: 26 + 27 February 2025, Szene Salzburg
dance, acting, research:
Francesco D'Amelio
Weng Teng Choi-Buttinger
Marcin Denkiewicz
Nikola Majtanova
Marcello Musini
Jerca Rožnik Novak
choreography, artistic direction: Editta Braun
composition: Thierry Zaboitzeff
choreographic assistance: Maja Mirek
light design: Thomas Hinterberger
coaching partnering: Beno Novak
taylors: Cvetanka Mojsovski, Lili Brit Pfeiffer
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