Christian VANDER - les CYGNES et les CORBEAUX

Fifteen years in composition (1982 - 1997) and more than four years in the making, this music is something entirely new, bridging the compositional efforts of the 20th Century post Schoenbergian greats to create a 21st Century music which grasps the essence of the vast interior stillness behind all sound and pierces the intensity of silence behind all noise. Disavowing all mechanical tempos, this free-flowing masterpiece reveals itself through the formless form of vortices and spirals, cascading, recursive, ineffable. This is a music whose dynamic rests on no tangible axis or fixed point, which is conceived from the inner and cannot therefore be measured by the outer. 65 minutes of fluttering wings, of song, of cries, of absolutely different sensations, this is a neo-impressionist composition of revolutionary proportions and aspirations. "I have found n the motion of swans and crows a parallel with the inner motion of the Kosmos itself. Or, at least, this is what I perceive in it." Christian Vander, 6th March 2002
1 CD total playing time 65 minutes 37 seconds cover edition vinyl replica

Christian VANDER : Lead vocal, acoustic piano, Fender piano, orchestra keyboards, tambourine, mixing -Stella VANDER : Lead vocal, background vocals, orchestra keyboard programming, mixing
with Isabelle FEUILLEBOIS : Lead vocal, background vocals -Julie VANDER: Lead vocal, background vocals -Bénédicte RAGU : Lead vocal, background vocals in "L'appel" and Virginie COUTIN : background vocals in "L'appel" -Bertrand CARDIET : Lead vocal in "Le ciel de l'océan" -Alex FERRAND : background vocals Les oiseaux en colère III & IV" -Pierre-Michel SIVADIER : Keyboard in "Prologue" -Orchestra keyboards: Violon, Alto, Violoncelle, Contrebasse, Flûte piccolo, Flûte, Flûte alto, Flûte basse, Flûte orientale, Clarinette, Basson, Hautbois, Cor anglais, Trompette piccolo, Trompette, Trombone, Cor, Harpe, Vibraphone, Xylophone, Carillon, Cloches tubulaires, Gong, Cymbales, Timbales, Grosse caisse d'harmonie, Choeurs

-1- DES PROFONDEURS -2- SAHISS SIHAAHT -3- LE VENT -4- EN AVANCANT VERS LE VENT -5- LE SEMEUR VERS LE NORD -6- LE SEMEUR VERS L'OUEST -7- LE SEMEUR VERS LE SUD -8- LE CIEL DE L'OCEAN -9- LES CYGNES ET LES CORBEAUX SONT VENUS -10- VENTS ET NUEES D'OISEAUX -11- LE SEMEUR VERS L'EST -12- LE VENT DISPARAIT -13- LES OISEAUX BRUNS -14- LES OISEAUX EN COLERE I -15- LES OISEAUX EN COLERE II -16- LES OISEAUX EN COLERE III -17- LES OISEAUX EN COLERE IV -18- LES OISEAUX EN COLERE V -19- MON OISEAU EST PARTI POUR UN DERNIER VOYAGE -20- LES OISEAUX BLANCS ET L'OISEAU BLEU -21- VERS L'INELUCTABLE -22- CHANT UNIQUE POUR APPELER L'OISEAU I -23- CHANT DE LA FATALITE -24- CHANT UNIQUE POUR APPELER L'OISEAU II -25- REPOS -26- CHANT POSTHUME -27- DES PROFONDEURS

Recorded at UNIWERIA ZEKT Studio by Francis LINON between August, 9th 1997 and January, 11th 2001 (Editing & Mastering)>br< Produced by Christian Vander & Stella Vander