€30,00
ISABELLE DE SPOELBERCH
APPEL A LA SOURCE
Release date: 03.12.2021
Catalogue number: 2GN017
Format: CD (2 CD) / DIGITAL
FEATURED ARTISTS:
Isabelle de Spoelberch: Celtic harp, kantele, santur, frame drums, Tibetan bowl, Vardan Hovanissian: duduk, Tristan Driessens: oud, vocals, Emre Gültekin: bağlama, diwan saz, yaylı saz, üç telli, Afghan rebab, bendir, vocals. GUEST ARTISTS: Bijan Chemirani: daf, tombak, Franz Reschenhofer: poetry reading, Malabika Brahma: vocals, Moussa Niang: vocals, Raphaël De Cock: uilleann pipes, overtone singing, Sanjay Khyapa: dupki, Jowan Merckx: recorders, Jeroen Geerinck: guitar, bodhran, Vincent Noiret: double bass.
TRACKLIST
CD 1 (Total: 38:55)
01 Solo Harp Improvisation I (3:55)
02 Utopie (5:08)
03 Freudenfest des Lebens (3:30)
04 Cig a chwrw (4:19)
05 Spiegel in mir Leuchtet zu dir (2:25)
06 Harp and Duduk Dialogue I (6:27)
07 Sayyid Dance N° 10 (4:48) listen
08 Solo Harp Improvisation II (3:00)
09 La Complainte de la Blanche Biche (2:00)
10 Le Souffle d’Éole (3:23)
CD 2 (Total: 36:33)
11 Solo Harp Improvisation III (Parfum d‘eau) (4:27)
12 Harp and Duduk Dialogue II (5:19)
13 Prière pour l’Eau (4:59)
14 Dilki doya (6:07)
15 Appel à la Source (2:40)
16 Solo Harp Improvisation IV (3:56)
17 Lève les yeux (4:05)
18 Ohm (5:00)
Description
Isabelle de Spoelberch was born into a family where music plays an important role in everyday life. During her childhood she fell in love with the harp and started cultivating a deep fascination with Celtic traditions and medieval music. She took harp lessons with Arianna Savall and Robin Huw Bowen and studied instrument making at the Fachschule für Streich und Zupfinstrumentbau in Hallstatt, Austria.
On her debut double album, the Celtic harp is the common thread through a journey of discovery along different roads and cultures. New compositions and traditional music are alternated with long improvisations in which the harpist enters into a dialogue with the Armenian duduk, the Turkish saz or the Persian tombak. The music of Appel à la Source pays tribute to what music from different corners of the world ‘à la source’ have in common. Isabelle de Spoelberch is inspired by Scandinavian mythology, shamanism, the four elements of nature, Eastern mysticism and the ancestral tradition of wandering singer-poets in Anatolia, Bengal and Senegal. All these influences are interwoven in a richly varied and mysterious album on which twelve guest musicians from seven different countries have contributed.
Press
“Une musique sans mots, intuitive et libre, éclectique à l’image de nos vies et de nos amitiés”, écrit Isabelle de Spoelberch dans le livret. Et on entend réellement cet amour de la musique et de ceux qui la font dans les 18 plages de ce double album : il nous emmène, avec Isabelle et Cie, dans les méandres de l’onirisme et de la contemplation. Un appel à la source qui fait couler l’eau claire et la belle musique. Le Soir (BE)
“With the double album Appel à la Source, the Walloon harpist Isabelle de Spoelberch explores the rich sources of harp music. Accompanied by a trio consisting of Vardan Hovanissian, Tristan Driessens and Emre Gültekin, and assisted by twelve guest musicians from seven different countries, this is an album you won’t easily get tired of.” Pop Magazine Heaven (NL)
“A serene musical world tour.” Music Frames (NL)
“This is a simply perfect record by a lady who was not only wonderfully surrounded during the recordings, but who also plays a homemade and beautifully sounding instrument and who knows how to write great melodies for it.” Rootstime (BE)
“Plenty of unusual combinations that turn out amazing. Especially when the flutes are playing or there is singing, the music takes on a great intensity.” Trouw (NL)
