heads-up for the first release of the duo ap’strophe (Ferran Fages and Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga) on Etude Records. besides championing the work of Ferran Fages since god knows when, this release is even more noteworthy for us for being the first full-length work to apear from the collaboration between Ferran & our very own Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga. Dimitra has sailed far into the lands of improvised music, but her actual work has only recently surfaced (see also here). we now -officially- expect great things from her
Ferran Fages : Acoustic guitar
Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga : Zither
ap’strophe is the duo of Ferran Fages and Dimitra Lazaridou Chatzigoga. They began working together in 2006, when Ferran Fages recorded his last guitar album “Cançons per a un lent retard”, where Dimitra Lazaridou Chatzigoga collaborated in the track Paraula clau, which they composed and interpreted together. After recording the album they realized the impossibility of re-interpreting this piece, which is based on the detuning(s) of the guitar, but they decided to continue working together. They decided to treat the piece Paraula clau as finished and started to search for a common sonoric space. The result of this survey gave shape to their present collaboration, which consists of a duo of acoustic guitar and zither. With their music they investigate the perception of the distinctive timbre of the guitar and the zither alongside the differences and similarities of their string instruments.
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Commenting on the title he gave to the first album by ap’strophe, Michalis Kyratsous writes (read this after the jump):
