Time Before and Time After

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Release Date: 28th Aug 2015
Catalogue No: 4721563
Label: ECM
Length: 63 minutes

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Dominique Pifarély: Sur terre

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Dominique Pifarély
Recorded: 2013-02-01
Recording Venue: Cave Dimière, Argenteuil

Dominique Pifarély: Meu Ser Elástico

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Dominique Pifarély
Recorded: 2012-09-18
Recording Venue: Auditorium Saint-Germain, Poitiers

Dominique Pifarély: L'air soudain

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Recorded: 2012-09-18
Recording Venue: Auditorium Saint-Germain, Poitiers

Dominique Pifarély: D'une main distraite

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Recorded: 2013-02-01
Recording Venue: Cave Dimière, Argenteuil

Dominique Pifarély: Avant le regard

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Dominique Pifarély
Recorded: 2013-02-01
Recording Venue: Cave Dimière, Argenteuil

Dominique Pifarély: Gegenlicht

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Dominique Pifarély
Recorded: 2012-09-18
Recording Venue: Auditorium Saint-Germain, Poitiers

Dominique Pifarély: Violín Y Otras Cuestiones

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Dominique Pifarély
Recorded: 2012-09-18
Recording Venue: Auditorium Saint-Germain, Poitiers

Dominique Pifarély: L'oubli

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Dominique Pifarély
Recorded: 2012-09-18
Recording Venue: Auditorium Saint-Germain, Poitiers

Young, V: My Foolish Heart

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Dominique Pifarély
Recorded: 2013-02-01
Recording Venue: Cave Dimière, Argenteuil

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The music is totally improvised - apart from a free interpretation of the jazz standard "My Foolish Heart" by Victor Young, incorporating inspired elaboration on its beautiful melody - and it roves through a range of moods and atmospheres, textures and tone colours, dynamically and unpredictably.

'Time Before and Time After' borrows its generic title from TS Eliot's poem 'Burnt Norton', and almost all the pieces in this highly inventive recital are named for poets and poetry, with dedications to Mahmoud Darwish, Fernando Pessoa, André du Bouchet, Henri Michaux, Paul Celan, Juan Gelman, and Bernard Noël. The literary references are, however, afterthoughts. "I'm a big reader of poetry and my idea was that the album could resemble a collection of poems. After the recordings were made, I thought about relating a particular piece to this or that poet, and used a few words from each as titles for the improvisations."

Dominique Pifarély, born 1957 in Bègles, is a pioneering improvising violinist, with an inclusive idea of music-making. In his early career he was in demand as a straight jazz player, but soon began playing progressive forms of the music in Mike Westbrook's band and the Vienna Art Orchestra. In the 1990s he co-led a quartet with Louis Sclavis, and recorded in duo with François Couturier, so it's good to have a contemporary account of his creativity with this remarkable solo violin album.

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