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LCS II - The Birch Tryptic​/​Untitled Chaconnes

by noemienours/Mr. Mouton

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1.
noemienours - Veniet Ursi Silvestres 03:48
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2.
noemienours - The Birch Song 05:10
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Some ears can hear better than ears who can not hear. There is no need for the rooster to sing, when other birds can sing more gracefully. And the snow-friendly birds will have sung most beautifully from being unknown to the treacherous ear. And their trail will not merge with the ones for whom their beauty is meant to remain unknown.
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noemienours - The Whisper's Demise 05:24
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Was it meant to be under-perceived or over-perceived? The unlabeled demise of an unseen shadow, the foretold disappearance of an untimely breath, the silent assertion of an obvious surmise, the unuttered evidence of a blinding awe, not intended to be heard by ears.
4.
Mr. Mouton - Chaconne du Premier Livre de Pièces de Luth (ca. 1675)* 02:03
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5.
Mr. Mouton - Chaconne du Livre de Lut de Mr. Milleran, élève de Mr. Mouton, interprète du Roi (1692-1694)* 05:35
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6.
Mr. Mouton - Chaconne du Livre de Monseigneur Le Comte Wodzicki (1694)** 03:02
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7.
Mr. Mouton - Reprise de la Chaconne du Premier Livre 03:04
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All digital proceeds are donated to Giant Panda conservation effort through Ocean Park Conservation Foundation in Hong Kong: www.opcf.org.hk/en/

1. Side A is comprised of 3 unusually acoustic recordings by noemienours who are developed around a template similar to the concept of “fairy tree” as it is developed in Mark Twain’s “Personal recollections of Joan of Arc”, but based on nature observation from the Baltic Sea birch forest where noemienours lives. The first 2 songs have a A415 nylon guitar and harpsichord tuning/sound reminiscent of John Downland or François Couperin and both include looped samples of snowshoeing through the snowy forest, while the last song involves only clavichord and voice. The harpsichord improvisation, an obvious component of 17th/18th century music, can share similarities here for instance with keyboard improvisation from post ”In a silent way” Miles Davis or Scandinavian jazz like Jan Garbarek. ”Veniet Ursi Silvestres” is a prelude whose title is a quote from Johannes Lichtenberger’s “Prognosticatio” (1492) predicting inter alia the development of the Thirty Years War. The whole tryptic is an ode to the threatened magical power of the forest.

2. Side B is a harpsichord transcription, transcribed and performed by noemienours of lute tablatures from Charles Mouton (ca. 1617-1699) , who was one of the most famous lute-players (key musicians for the development of harpsichord or viol music), in France and Europe, also including notably Sweden during the 17th century, where some of his compositions have also survived in the form of keyboard tablatures (something familiar to noemienours who used the keyboard tablature technique previously to perform songs on keyboard during her New-Zealand tour in 2019, keyboard tablatures published in the ”Meditative Adventures” songbook). So this is a somewhat Swedish tradition of adapting Mouton’s music to keyboard that resumes with this recording, that includes one composition never previously recorded by anyone.

credits

released May 15, 2022

noemienours credits:

All music, lyrics, mixing, mastering by noemienours.
Recorded on Fostex R-8 8 track in Umeå, February 2022.

noemienours instruments:

Nylon-stringed guitar, Harpsichord, Clavichord, Sampler.

Mr. Mouton (ca. 1617-1699) credits:

Keyboard transcription, recording, mixing, mastering by noemienours.
Recorded on Fostex R-8 8-track in Umeå, March 2022.

Mr. Mouton instruments:

Flemish single-manual harpsichord by M. Bezemer 2005 after Ruckers.

* World premiere recording on harpsichord
** World premiere recording

This is Lathe Cut series #2/noemienours records #11.

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noemienours records Norrbotten County, Sweden

All-ages bear-saving non-ideological/de-anthropologized, vegan/drug-free/alcohol-free, endangered, human-free, non-profit, sentient home-recordings from the forests of Sweden. Spiritual ancestors of noemienours’ aristocratic tradition include F. Rabelais, R. Burton, C. Mouton, F. Couperin, L. Sterne, L.-F. Céline, the Care Bears and Herta Müller. ... more

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