Artist: Lore Amenabar Larrañaga
Album: Ispilu – Works for Quarter-Tone Accordion
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2023
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 01:16:51
Total Tracks: 8
Total Size: 1,03 GB

Tracklist:

1-1. Lore Amenabar Larrañaga – Fleeting Puddles (09:18)
1-2. Lore Amenabar Larrañaga – Barafostus Dreame (08:48)
1-3. Lore Amenabar Larrañaga – My Time Is Your Time (12:38)
1-4. Lore Amenabar Larrañaga – Feast (05:05)
1-5. Lore Amenabar Larrañaga – Permissible Self Expression (17:10)
1-6. Lore Amenabar Larrañaga – Die Stimme der Stadt (10:09)
1-7. Lore Amenabar Larrañaga – Crystalline Air (08:41)
1-8. Lore Amenabar Larrañaga – L’eaurelle (04:59)

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Lore Larrañaga designed and commissioned a totally new instrument to explore how the accordion could express microtonal music and this is the first ever recording of this whole genre.

A gratifyingly inventive listening experience, Ispilu marks the first recording of Basque accordionist Lore Amenabar Larrañaga’s self-designed quarter-tone accordion, custom built by Bugari Armando. Lore has engaged in a detailed investigation of her custom quarter-tone accordion, exploring its technical and sonic boundaries through the commissioning of a new body of collaborative works, written between 2020 and 2022, during her PhD studies at the Royal Academy of Music.Lore explains:
“The design of my instrument allows the production of quarter tones in both the right and left-hand manuals. The range and timbral possibilities of this instrument are expanded through the use of fifteen registers on the right manual and seven on the left manual, resulting in a sounding range of E-2 to B-quarter-sharp-6 in the right hand and E-1 to Dquarter-sharp-6 in the left. From Electra Perivolaris to Christopher Fox, Michael Finnissy to Mioko Yokoyama, this album will accommodate diverse textures, voices, and ideas; all gravitating around the Quarter-Tone Accordion”