Lamento Project by Catherine Aglibut, Ulrike Becker, Christian Gerber, Claudio Puntin
The sound of Lamento, it has an important place in almost every musical tradition.
Music that dresses grief and consolation in a costume of sound is usually associated with words, but its feeling is much more poignant than any words. Music created from these states of people touches our soul directly.
But a lament is also an expression of a growing awareness of feelings of suffering, the consequence of which is regeneration, hope and courage. This is precisely the creative background in countless musical and poetic works, to go into the future from this strength.
The Lamento Project came together precisely from this inspiration more than 10 years ago.
Inspired by the spirit and expression of sorrow and consolation of the compositions from the Altbach Archive, the Lamento Project also plays their own compositions by Claudio Puntin, in which improvisational elements are equally natural.
Their instrumentation is unexpected when one thinks of a baroque ensemble, but here many musical experiences meet. What in the Lamenti the singing voice proclaimed, in this ensemble the bass clarinet takes over. And then there is the bandoneon; today it is usually assigned to the Tango Argentino, but it was originally invented by Heinrich Band around 1850 in Krefeld (Germany) and reached South America, primarily Argentina, around 1870 through Spanish and Italian boatmen. So journeys of the instruments mix with those of the feelings, crossover at its best!
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Credits
Recorded at Radio Hall Sendesaal Bremen by Renate Wolters-Seevers
Mixed by Claudio Puntin at Cl-Audio Studio Berlin
Mastered by Ingo Krauss at Candy Bomber Studios Berlin
Cover Photos by Sophie Scheifele
Graphic Design by Olivier Schlund
Produced for 1.61 Records by Claudio Puntin
