Description
Released June 2021
Antifrost proudly presents a release by ΜΜΜΔ featuring baroque keyboardist ALEM. Entitled ‘’L’âge de l’absolutisme” this album, ΜΜΜΔ’s 12th release to date, contains an idiosyncratic take on three landmark late baroque masterpieces: Alessandro Marcello’s Adagio from Oboe Concerto D minor, Georg Friedrich Händel’s Sarabande from Keyboard Suite in D minor (Suite de pièce Vol. 2 No. 4) and Johann Sebastian Bach’s Air from Air Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major.
ΜΜΜΔ’s signature massive low end establishes a gigantesque basso continuo for ALEM’s keyboard extravaganzas to sit comfortably on. Apart from MMMΔ’s usual custom-made equipment different period keyboard instruments were used during the recording: clavichord for the Αdagio, harpsichord and baroque timpani for the Sarabande and portable organ for the Air.
In ‘’L’âge de l’absolutisme” an enigmatic manifesto is shaped: sparse evidence of ΜΜΜΔ’s 12-year path from dissonance to harmony. With the help of ALEM’s virtuosic escapades the sound walks a tightrope between strict rule and freedom, majestic grandeur and modest means.
Above all ‘’L’âge de l’absolutisme” is baroque music like you’ve never heard.Track list
In ‘’L’âge de l’absolutisme” an enigmatic manifesto is shaped: sparse evidence of ΜΜΜΔ’s 12-year path from dissonance to harmony. With the help of ALEM’s virtuosic escapades the sound walks a tightrope between strict rule and freedom, majestic grandeur and modest means.
Above all ‘’L’âge de l’absolutisme” is baroque music like you’ve never heard.Track list
- Sarabande
- Adagio
- Air
ΜΜΜΔ: cello, low and high frequency oscillators, timpani, choir
Alem: clavichord, harpsichord, portable organ
recorded in Athens and Pireaus, Feb-Aug 2020
published by Antifrost
cover art: ILIOS
cover photography: Rachel Bühlmann
Alem: clavichord, harpsichord, portable organ
recorded in Athens and Pireaus, Feb-Aug 2020
published by Antifrost
cover art: ILIOS
cover photography: Rachel Bühlmann
