Avantgarde Extreme

Don't say I didn't warn you: This is no mainstream! They say it's Avantgarde – I say it's a class of students destroying the machinery of a blacksmith workshop.

The idea underlying this Da Vinci Classics album is to gather together a collection of pieces which have been significant in the performing artist’s life. These include pieces which have been dedicated to him, pieces he premiered, or pieces he found – as we will see in the forthcoming pages. In Colone’s own words, they represent “a corpus of works which are close to me”.

Lev Kulesov's legendary "constructivist Western" (adapted from a story by Jack London) was a highlight of the Soviet Cinema of the 1920s and one of the most popular films of its time. Upon finding gold in the Yukon a group of prospectors descend into murder. The survivors are facing an existential choice. The DVD presents a new transfer of the film and a contemporary score by Austrian composer and musician Franz Reisecker. As an extra it includes the only surviving fragment of Kulesov's Vasa znakomaja, featuring sets by avantgarde artist Aleksandr Rodcenko.

Pied Piper is the elusive alias of the record producer that stands behind numerous studio projects and concept releases spanning the genres such as: Deep House, Nu-Disco, Discofunk, DiscoHouse, House, JazzHouse, Nu-Jazz, JazzFunk, JazzFusion, Experimental, Avantgarde, Soundtrack & motion picture scoring and Library music. The opus of the Piper-Fiddler organisation also includes edits, where PP is one of the digital pioneers in the field, having produced well over a thousand renditions, while being noted as one of the leading figures in the art of “Reproduction”.

The violin and cello duo cannot be considered as a musical rarity; yet it is also far from one of the most popular instrumental combinations in Western classical music. It is a challenging ensemble for both those composing for it and those venturing in the performance of its repertoire. It is a duo which invites counterpoint: the deep nature of both instruments and their vocation is to melodic singing, to the sustained lines which translate the human being’s aspiration to vocality into instrumental music. In consequence, to undertake a composition for violin and cello duo is also to implicitly accept the challenge of polyphony, and to affirm one’s mastery of its most intricate secrets.