OM CD 1010-2
Amelia Cuni, dhrupad vocals
Werner Durand, drones/electronics
Federico Sanesi, percussion
Raymond Kaczynski, percussion |
John Cage wrote his 18 Microtonal Ragas after years of immersing himself in Indian music and philosophy. Nearly forty years later, Italian-German dhrupad singer Amelia Cuni, with extensive training in both the European and Indian classical traditions, interprets this work that could have been written for her special artistry. On this CD she performs the complete Solo 58 from Song Books, combined with numerous performances of other solos from the same collection, with percussionists Raymond Kaczynski and Federico Sanesi, and Werner Durand establishing both the traditional Indian drones specially created to accompany the microtonal ragas, and performing on electronics.
More information on this project can be viewed here. |
“Amelia Cuni’s world premiere of Cage’s 18 Microtonal Ragas was certainly on the outer fringe of experimentation ... Illustrating a unique relationship between tradition and experimentation, the performance pointed a way out of the ghetto of serious art music in an investigation of cultural cross-fertilisation between east and west.” —Deutsche Welle Kulturmagazin, 2006 