Asya Fateyeva - To the Muse (2024) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Lo Roseignolet Salvage
02. Interlude I
03. Saxophone Concerto: I. Andante - Allegro
04. Saxophone Concerto: II. Final Giration. Allegro Vif Tournoyant
05. Interlude II
06. A Chantar
07. Sérénade
08. Can Vei La Lauzetta Mover (Das Lerchenlied)
09. Kalenda Maya
10. Bel M'es Quan Sunt Li Fruit Madur
11. Interlude III
12. Tableaux de Provence: I. Farandoulo di Chatouno
13. Tableaux de Provence: II. Cansoun per ma mio
14. Tableaux de Provence: III. La Boumiano
15. Tableaux de Provence: IV. Dis Alyscamps, L'amo Souspire
16. Tableaux de Provence: V. Lou Cabridan
17. Lan Quant Le Jors Sont Donc en Mai
18. Us Gais Conortz Me Fai Gajaman Far
19. Fort Chose - Planh

Asya Fateyeva sets out to rethink the idea of the muse. She applies herself to asking what truly supplies the inspiration that a person needs to be active, to generate art. Is it perhaps the unattainable as such? "The troubadours of medieval France sang of unrequited love," says Fateyeva, "but more than that, they sang of l'amour de loin - love from afar." This "fin'amor" applied to the "distant beloved", the romantic attachment to an unattainable person. The songs of the troubadours are now so distant from us themselves that most of them scarcely make sense to us. "Sometimes only a few lines of text have survived, and there are very few works with music and words," says Fateyeva. "And we can only guess what the tempo was, or the metre - it really is the stuff of fantasy, in the best sense of the word." Fateyeva and her fellow musicians Matthias Loibner (hurdy-gurdy), Bo Wiget (cello) and Emil Kuyumcuyan (vibraphone, darbuka) do not seek an exact reproduction of the troubadours' music. On the contrary, they take inspiration from the material and play free arrangements, constantly improvising over the melodies.

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