Kirili et les Nympheas - Hommage et Monet

KIRILI ET LES NYMPHÉAS
Hommage à Monet
Improvised music at the Musée de l¹Orangerie
(Mutable 17531-2) (2 disc set ­ CD and DVD)
(UPC: 801021753124)

Music performed by:
 JEROME BOURDELLON, flutes, bass clarinet; THOMAS BUCKNER, baritone;
DALILA KHATIR, soprano; ROSCOE MITCHELL, alto & soprano saxophones

This deluxe package includes a film by Jean-Paul Fargier ­ Habiter le
Présent/To Live the Present, featuring the musicians recorded at the Musée
de l¹Orangerie. Enclosed as well are a 16 page booklet with color photos of
the musicians among Alain Kirili¹s sculptures and Monet¹s paintings by
Ariane Lopez-Huici, and a 20 page booklet containing an essay by French
philosopher Paul Audi in both English and French.

Two musicians at the peak of their sensitivity: Roscoe Mitchell and Jérôme
Bourdellon. A singer at the height of his finesse: Thomas Buckner. A woman
of intelligent and generous beauty: Dalila Khatir, whose singing takes its
source from the dance­or the dance from the singing, we shall never know.
These are the musicians intimately involved with Hommage à Monet, the latest
in an ongoing series of collaborations between the artist Alain Kirili and
improvising musicians, dancers and composers over many years. Other
collaborators have included violinists Leroy Jenkins and Billy Bang,
saxophonists Joseph Jarman and Steve Lacy, trombonist Roswell Rudd, pianist
Cecil Taylor, dancer Maria Mitchell, and composers Alvin Lucier and Somei
Satoh. The improvisatory energy that is palpable in Kirili's sculpture and
drawing is in part inspired by his deep relationship with improvised music,
and this energy in turn inspires the musicians and dancers to make the
energy in the sculpture audible and visible. Hommage à Monet is also the
latest in a series of dialogues with great artists of the past that Kirili
has exhibited in major museums over many years. Bourdellon, Buckner, Khatir,
and Mitchell participated in this project and had the opportunity to respond
musically and kinetically to the dialogue between Alain Kirili's sculpture
and one of the greatest icons of modern art, Claude Monet's "Les
Nympheas"(Water Lilies). The performance took place on June 21, 2007 as a
part of the great "Fete de la Musique" that occurs all over France on the
longest day of the year. The Musee de l¹Orangerie graciously allowed a
performance in the presence of the newly reinstalled Nympheas, and gave the
musicians and filmmaker Jean-Paul Fargier access to the museum on the day
before the performance for rehearsal and filming of the DVD.

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