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Denis Dufour: Avalanche

François-Michel Rignol (performer)

Denis Dufour: Avalanche

Denis Dufour: Avalanche

François-Michel Rignol (performer)

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In nineteen movements of varying lengths and moods, Denis Doufours monumental piano piece Avalanche invites us on a voyage across the infinite variation of the forms taken by snow, and the rich vocabulary established by the Innuits for it since their arrival on Greenland, the continent of ice. At work in this piece is a transposition, inspired by morphologies, of a certain kind of energy onto the relationships between the physical and musical realms.

Thanks to his practice as a performer on analogue synthesizers, especially in the TM+ ensemble in the 80s, Denis Dufour developed this ability to see through our hearing, allowing him to distance himself from the reflexes of and dependence on preconceived clichs in sound phenomena.

Denis Dufour is a craftsman of music, who, for the sake of a demanding and effusive finishing, invites us to immerse ourselves in the world of our own ears.

Contents and tracklist

Aperdlaut (First Snow)
Track length2:13
Aput (Snow on the Ground)
Track length2:30
Quaniit (Falling Snow)
Track length2:51
Kanik (Powdery, Falling Snow)
Track length3:15
Apivok (Large Snowflakes)
Track length1:13
Persok (Snow Flurry)
Track length1:14
Masak (Wet Snow)
Track length3:26
Pugak (Crusty Snow)
Track length2:01
Quinek (Melted Snow)
Track length3:41
Aput Aajivitseq (Eternal Snow)
Track length7:28
Kanigpok (Resting Snow)
Track length3:38
Makornat (Icy Snow Blown by the Wind)
Track length2:14
Mangerkak (Crusty, Frozen Snow Formed into Waves by the Wind)
Track length1:02
Kinernek (Wavelets of Snow Formed on the Glacier)
Track length1:40
Kakak Persopok (Smoking Mountain)
Track length2:05
Alittineq (Stepp Slope of Snowdrifts)
Track length2:28
Paarwaq (Gusts of Snow)
Track length2:19
Piseeq (Snow Shelters for Hunters)
Track length2:57
Ittinngaq (Igloo)
Track length7:23
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