Kappeler-Zumthor

The ECM debut of the duo of Vera Kappeler and Peter Conradin Zumthor presents music commissioned for the Origen Cultural Festival. It is music dominated by low registers, dark hues. The Babylon referenced in the title is the Babylon of the Book of Daniel, the lion’s den, the young men singing in the fiery furnace, a place of perdition, a labyrinth... The inspirational starting point launches creative composing and improvising and the shaping of strange and poetic material which is much more than ‘programme music’ The “Babylon-Suite” is self-contained, autonomous. The piano and drums duo leaves spaces and ellipses for the imagination to fill. Kappeler’s pianistic touch and phrasing, most subtly detailed and underpinned by Zumthor’s melody-and-texture conscious drumming, draw the listener in, deeper into the dream.

PERSONNEL:

VERA KAPPELER, piano, harmonium, toypiano, voice
PETER CONRADIN ZUMTHOR,drums, toypiano, voice

Recorded June 4+5, 2013 at Auditorio Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano

TRACKS:

01. Das erste Tier
02. Tor II
03. Tor I
04. Ne Pidu Ja Do Lesa
05. Annalisa
06.Traumgesicht
07 . November
08.Tor III
09 . Bontempi Var. I
10. Bontempi Var. II
11. Tor IV