Artist: Joël Grare
Album: Des pas sous la neige
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2018
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 58:36
Total Tracks: 18
Total Size: 1,06 GB

Tracklist:

1-1. Joël Grare – Des pas sous la neige (À ma mère) (03:36)
1-2. Joël Grare – Transhumance et transcendance (À Didier Galas) (04:01)
1-3. Joël Grare – Battements d’ailes dans le brouillard (À Pierre Favre) (03:56)
1-4. Joël Grare – Les rythmes fantômes (À Jacques Debs) (02:57)
1-5. Joël Grare – Campanula alpestris (À Armand Amar) (02:25)
1-6. Joël Grare – La noce feras-tu ? (À Jean-François Zygel) (03:15)
1-7. Joël Grare – La buée (À Christian Vander) (02:50)
1-8. Joël Grare – Abel Torbak 1 / Brâul (À Claude Walter) (01:33)
1-9. Joël Grare – Abel Torbak 2 / Pe Loc (À Matthieu Delpy) (01:41)
1-10. Joël Grare – Abel torbak 3 / Buciumeana (À Yoann Moulin) (02:10)
1-11. Joël Grare – Cloches Vespérales (À Emmanuel Guibert) (02:48)
1-12. Joël Grare & Matthieu Desbordes – Le cou des vaches (À mon frère Alain) (03:25)
1-13. Joël Grare, Yula Slipovitch & Matthieu Desbordes – Les Grandes Jorasses Face Nord (À Yvan Cassar) (03:38)
1-14. Joël Grare – La cascade des perles de rosée (À Dieter Hermann) (04:25)
1-15. Joël Grare – Debussy ou la tour des cloches (À Maël Guezel) (05:13)
1-16. Joël Grare, Matthieu Desbordes, Yula Slipovitch & Anne Isambert – Sonnerie de plein champ pour faire venir la neige (À Alban Sautour) (03:11)
1-17. Joël Grare & Simon Buffaud – Les flocons invitent la montagne à danser (À Axel Lecourt) (03:21)
1-18. Joël Grare & Alice Julien-Laferrière – Sous la neige (À Anne Rousseau) (04:02)

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Joël Grare, percussionist and tireless seeker after offbeat sounds and instruments, here presents his third album for Alpha: ‘Footprints beneath the snow: first sounds of innocence, cowbells and jingle-bells, sounds swallowed up by the mountain’… Through his compositions and inspirational influences (Debussy, Bartók) he follows a dizzying emotional Alpine path, along with his amazing instruments: drums, balafon, melodica, sanza, cowbells of all sizes, Japanese drums, trompiki, rainstick, thunder sheet – and his famous ‘clavicloche’: One early afternoon in January 1986 I visited the Devouassoud workshop in Chamonix, manufacturer of the jingle bells and tongued cowbells that adorn the animals’ necks, filling the mountainside with their chimes… I added these new treasures to my percussion set, not realizing that these newbies arranged among my cymbals would eventually become an instrument in their own right… Totally unlike church bells, whose pitches are precalculated when casting them, the pitch of cowbells is only approximate. The low-pitched bells are called “dull”, and the high-pitched ones “bright” – you need only a few cowbell notes to identify a particular herd. When trying to assemble a full tuned set, you might test several hundred cowbells and pick out just a few… To collect a chromatic set of three-and-a-half octaves took me a good twenty years!’ Joël Grare