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Charlotte Hug & Frederic Blondy: Bouquet
by John Eyles
This meeting of French pianist Frédric Blondy and Switzerland's Charlotte Hug on viola and voice was studio-recorded in March 2008 in Paris. Performing as a duo since 2005, Hug and Blondy continue to do so. The album sleeve bears a phrase that is increasingly seen in recent years: “No overdubbing or electronic modification was used." In ...
Slipway To Galaxies
Label: Emanem
Released: 2011
Track listing: Anderwelten; Buzz & fly; Intersect; Holy ground; Exhilaration; Atman; Cyclic; Slipway to Galaxies.
Charlotte Hug: Slipway to Galaxies
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There has always been something special about a performance by Charlotte Hug. Her revolutionary playing celebrated in the unique “soft-bowing" technique has turned the shrill glissandi of the viola into hues of deep, indulgent warmth. As her passion for the human interaction with her instrument developed, she began to meld her unique vocalistics, as well as ...
Charlotte Hug: Slipway to Galaxies
by John Eyles
On parts of her last Emanem release, Fine Extensions (2010)--a duo with cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm--in addition to playing her customary viola Charlotte Hug also used her voice. She sang in a quasi-operatic style as well as vocalizing, to produce eerie, other-worldly sounds, her voice combining with and complementing the strings to good effect. Now, on Slipway ...
Charlotte Hug - Fred Lonberg-Holm: Fine Extensions
by AAJ Italy Staff
Charlotte Hug, violista membro dell'attuale line-up della London Improvisers Orchestra, attiva nel mondo dell'arte visiva e perennemente in viaggio d'arte fra Zurigo e Londra, viene spesso citata accanto a John Butcher, Phil Minton, Maggie Nichols, Evan Parker, Elliot Sharp e altri nomi dell'avanguardia moderna per la duttile creatività al servisio del “design scenico" collegato a improvising ...
Charlotte Hug / Fred Lonberg-Holm: Fine Extensions
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Viola and cello have coexisted in splendid harmony on the concert stage for hundreds of years, both instruments bolstering powerful orchestral settings for every composer, even before Haydn, Bach, Mozart and Beethoven employed violin and cello in compositions with vivid effect. What delights the inner ear, however, especially on the brazen Fine Extensions, is the fact ...
Charlotte Hug / Fred Lonberg-Holm: Fine Extensions
by John Eyles
Dating from a concert in Zurich in March 2009, this duo between violist Charlotte Hug and cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm adds to the impressive array of improvising string recordings already on Emanem. The viola and cello--the two middle members of the violin family--overlap in the pitches they can produce, so the combination makes for fascinating listening; mainly, ...
Freedom of the City 2010
by Ken Waxman
"To Thine Self Be True" is lettered above the stage at Conway Hall where London's annual Freedom of the City (FOTC) festival took place May 2nd-3rd. Although related to the philosophy of the Humanist Society that built the edifice, the slogan can be applied to the 16 sets that made up the festival. Organized ...
Acoustic Electronics
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Released: 2009
Track listing:
1.Loopkevers - 04:50; 2. A’Grion Virgo - 06:09; 3. Capricorne Des Maisons - 04:42; 4. Syrefly - 06:27; 5. Inachis Io - 02:58;
6. Escorpiao-Vinagre - 04:23; 7. Allmän Trädödare - 03:13; 8. Zilvevisje - 06:01; 9. Bombus Sporadicus - 06:05;
10. Euro'is Occulta - 05:05.
Tutte le composizioni sono di Charlotte Hug - Nina De Heney - Christian Jormin.
