Kate Moore

"Dances and Canons" is the debut ECM recording of both composer Kate Moore and pianist Saskia Langhoorn. Moore was born in England in 1979 and lives now in the Netherlands (where she studied with Louis Andriessen). However, it is Australia, where she grew up, which has left the strongest impression on her creative imagination, its teeming natural soundscapes transmuted in her music of hypnotically-swarming pulse patterns and shifting, layered planes of sound. In Dutch pianist Lankhoorn (also born 1979), Moore has a dedicated and resourceful interpreter. “It’s impossible to listen to this music”, writes George Miller in the liner note, “and not wonder about the enormous technical demands it makes of the performer”. Moore and Lankhoorn have collaborated regularly since 2003. As well as compositions for solo piano, the programme includes pieces for two pianos, four pianos and multiple pianos, realized in the Auditorio svizzera, Lugano, with Manfred Eicher as producer.

Australian composer Kate Moore has worked with a wide range of ensembles, including Slagwerk Den Haag, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, The Amsterdam Cello Octet, The New European Ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, the Bang on a Can All-Stars and many more. On her Cantaloupe Music debut with All-Stars cellist Ashley Bathgate, she brings a uniquely vivid, contemplative and almost spiritual voice to these six new compositions for the cello.

Felix, la disinfestatrice senior della stazione di Huddersfield, è tornata con un nuovo giovane apprendista, Bolt. Sin dal giorno del suo arrivo, Felix, la gatta della stazione di Huddersfield, nello Yorkshire, ha conquistato tutti, e con i suoi occhioni verde smeraldo ha toccato il cuore di ferrovieri e viaggiatori. È stato un pendolare speciale, il cinquantacinquenne Mark Allan, ad avere l'idea di aprire e dedicare a Felix la pagina Facebook che l'ha resa famosa a livello globale con centinaia di migliaia di follower. Ora però che è stata travolta dalla notorietà, le giornate in stazione sono diventate piuttosto frenetiche: giornalisti e fan disturbano il suo lavoro di disinfestatrice per fotografarle la coda dalla punta candida. Inoltre, anche se la regina Felix è sempre pronta a concedere udienza ai suoi sudditi e a lanciarsi in rocambolesche battute di caccia al topo, inizia ad avere qualche pelo bianco e qualche chilo in più…

With Big Beautiful Dark and Scary, the Bang on a Can All-Stars show off their blazing speed, polyrhythmic virtuosity and all-world versatility in a return to the core Bang on a Can sound - an uncategorizable supermix of classical and electric instruments that is part classical ensemble, part rock band, and part jazz sextet. The album is the first in a decade that features the All-Stars exclusively, rather than as part of a collaborative project. Each of the pieces on the double-CD calls upon a different kind of virtuosity, demonstrating the range of musical abilities and experiences arguably unique to this ensemble. Recorded in New York City, all of the music on Big Beautiful Dark and Scary (including the arrangements of the works by Conlon Nancarrow) were written for and premiered by the Bang on a Can All-Stars.

19 tracks. Lorena Mckennitt, The Corrs, Clannad & Bono, Sarah Brightman, Kate Bush, Luar Na Lubre, Mike Oldfield, Maire Brennan, Mary Black, Christie Moore, Eliza Carthy, Caroline Lavelle, Sinéad O'Connor, Altan, Eddi Reader, Sharon Shannon & Hothouse Flowers, Eimear Quinn, Simple Minds.