From the label, Equilibrium Music: "Les Fragments De La Nuit is a blossoming band created in 2005 by Michel
Villar (piano) and Ombeline Chardes (violin), score composers for film. In order
to play their pieces on stage, they decided to set up a quintet made up of three
violins, a cello and a piano. Their music, ranging from tragic to epic and
atmospheric was greeted by audiences with unexpected enthusiasm. Some see in it
the influence of repetitive music composers such as Philip Glass or Steve Reich,
others the melancholic emotion found in the works of Arvö Part or Canadians
Godspeed You Black Emperor. Encouraged by such fervour, Fragments de la Nuit
have played their music to a growing number of passionate spectators, keeping in
mind their motto: «Our music is poetry in which words are notes, a memory in
which images are dreams».
'Musique du Crépuscule' - a
vision of night wrapped in mystery: a night haunted by spectral chants, under
the spell of epic, poignant strings and sustained by hypnotic piano pulsations.
Its nocturnal universe oozes with hybrid ink, enveloping hidden emotions tainted
with melancholy and voluptuousness. A neo-classical or post-nocturnal piece, 'Musique du Crépuscule' has many different faces. It alternates between violin
riffs, dark cello projections and the complaints of a lone piano, highlighted by
enigmatic echoing voices." |
