CHRISTINE OTT - Tabu
GZH69DP || December 2016 || CD/DL
GZH69DP || December 2016 || CD/DL
CD || Limited edition of 175. Housed in a double-panel, lino printed card sleeve with two card inserts. Recycled card used throughout and placed in an eco-friendly outer plastic bag. Each item is individually printed, cut, assembled, numbered and packaged at Gizeh HQ. Includes an instant download of the full album.
DIGITAL || Visit our Bandcamp page to purchase digital items in Lossless/MP3 format.
Just a few months after the release of her highly acclaimed album, Only Silence Remains, Christine Ott proposed a new album to Gizeh Records for its Dark Peak Series of releases. Tabu is an original, live soundtrack, composed in 2012 for the movie of the same name by F.W. Murnau and Robert Flaherty and a performance that she's playing regularly as a ciné-concert throughout France and Europe.
The magic, the beauty and the incredible light of the movie associated to its astonishing modernity have contributed to the choice of the composer. Christine has been shattered and very moved by the movie, the story of an impossible love on Bora-Bora island, between Matahi, a young pearl diver, and Reri, a young woman promised to the gods. The circumstances of the death of Murnau, prematurely died in a car accident before the film premiere, emphasizes the mystery around this movie. More than a ciné-concert, Ott's creation is a black pearl, as is Murnau's ultimate movie.
Ott's creation alternates avant-garde tracks with Ondes martenot and modern-classic piano pieces, sometimes light and delicate, sometimes dark and funereal. This cinematographic journey is ending with the original version of Tempête, composed for the last scene of the movie, a stunning piece that Ott re-worked for Only Silence Remains.
With Tabu, Christine Ott combines her passion for images and cinema to musical composition, creating new sound territories along the way. After lots of experiments down different paths, and collaborations with the likes of Yann Tiersen, Radiohead, Tindersticks, Syd Matters and Foudre!, Ott here releases her taste for a kind of
minimalistic chamber music.
"Christine Ott is giving us, with this new album, her first inspiration to the screen - spontaneous and sometimes fragile. There is indeed a secret link which joins together Reri, daughter of the water, to Christine, sister of the Ondes Martenot. In these pure moments when Ott’s piano becomes a waterfall, a river, an ocean. In these heartbreaking moments when the composer, without ever over-playing manages to simply let go, thanks to a very mysterious and fascinating instrument, the tears that the audience may not always dare to have". [Thierry Méranger, Les Cahiers du Cinéma]
The magic, the beauty and the incredible light of the movie associated to its astonishing modernity have contributed to the choice of the composer. Christine has been shattered and very moved by the movie, the story of an impossible love on Bora-Bora island, between Matahi, a young pearl diver, and Reri, a young woman promised to the gods. The circumstances of the death of Murnau, prematurely died in a car accident before the film premiere, emphasizes the mystery around this movie. More than a ciné-concert, Ott's creation is a black pearl, as is Murnau's ultimate movie.
Ott's creation alternates avant-garde tracks with Ondes martenot and modern-classic piano pieces, sometimes light and delicate, sometimes dark and funereal. This cinematographic journey is ending with the original version of Tempête, composed for the last scene of the movie, a stunning piece that Ott re-worked for Only Silence Remains.
With Tabu, Christine Ott combines her passion for images and cinema to musical composition, creating new sound territories along the way. After lots of experiments down different paths, and collaborations with the likes of Yann Tiersen, Radiohead, Tindersticks, Syd Matters and Foudre!, Ott here releases her taste for a kind of
minimalistic chamber music.
"Christine Ott is giving us, with this new album, her first inspiration to the screen - spontaneous and sometimes fragile. There is indeed a secret link which joins together Reri, daughter of the water, to Christine, sister of the Ondes Martenot. In these pure moments when Ott’s piano becomes a waterfall, a river, an ocean. In these heartbreaking moments when the composer, without ever over-playing manages to simply let go, thanks to a very mysterious and fascinating instrument, the tears that the audience may not always dare to have". [Thierry Méranger, Les Cahiers du Cinéma]
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PRESS:
THE WIRE “Cursed Lagoon” is the standout of Ott’s creations. There is a darkness that creeps just below the surface (...)" BEATH SLOTH "Without peer, Christine Ott’s “Tabu” explores the subdued and the sublime." INTERVIEW WITH ATTN A CLOSER LISTEN "To strive ~ whether romantically or musically ~ is to achieve a certain nobility, no matter what the eventual outcome; here, Ott restores dignity to doomed love." |
TRACKLISTING:
1. First Chapter - Paradise (4:48) 2. Reri (2:02) 3. Consolation (3:52) 4. Course Vers La Mer (3:54) 5. Hitu, La Grande Montagne (5:22) 6. Sorrow / Lover's Dance (10:59) 7. The Warning (4:27) 8. Paradise Lost (4:16) 9. Oriental Dance (4:08) 10. Mandat d'Arrêt / La Perle (3:48) 11. Hitu's Appearance (1:31) 12. Cursed Lagoon (3:23) 13. Hitu's Shadow (2:41) 14. Le Sourire de Matahi / Consolation (Variation I) (6:48) 15. Comptoir Chinois (1:57) 16. Consolation (Variation II) (1:37) 17. Rêve & Perle Noire (5:33) 18. Tempête / The Tabu (10:20) Please note - the CD edition contains 16 tracks and the digital version 18 tracks CREDITS:
All tracks composed & performed by Christine Ott with Torsten Böttcher on 2, 6 & 9 The live soundtrack "Tabu, a story of the south seas", created in 2012 on the movie by F.W. Murnau & Robert Flaherty Christine Ott : Piano, Ondes Martenot, Percussions Torsten Böttcher : Hang Recorded and mixed by Nicolas Desvernois Additionnal mixing by Benoît Burger Edited by Tim Hay CD artwork, design and packaging by Richard Knox & Claire Brentnall |
