MONIGOTE

Hartmut Oßwald: Tenor Saxophone & Bass Clarinet
Johannes Schmitz: E-Guitar
Ben Lehmann: Double Bass
Julian Duprat Petrich: Drums

Recording & Mixing: Pascal Zimmer
Cover Photo: Julian Duprat Petrich
Cover Design: Marija Bobic

 

The first discographical work of Monigote consists and is inspired by the timeless and universal nature of music. The pieces contained on this album have a very diverse and colourful background:

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"Canteyodjaja" and "Chant de Nuit" are adaptations inspired by the work of Oivier Messiaen (1908-1992) and Antoine Tisné (1932-1998), two French composers of the 20th Century.

 

On the other hand, we have music out of the Mexican folklore: "Huecanías", originally sung in Náhuatl, a language spoken by natives in the central region of Mexico; "El Murciélago", is one of the hundredths of dances conforming the Puliksón, ritual and festivity by the Tenek people in the east-mexican Huasteca region.  "Flor de Azálea", a song out of the movie “Algo Flota Sobre el Agua” from 1948, written by the film music composer Manuel Esperón (1911-2011), who was also the great-grand father of the drummer Julian Duprat P.

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The rest of the pieces are originals, "Beißer" composed by Johannes Schmitz and "3 Mal 3 Über 3" by Ben Lehmann. And the two collective improvisations:  "Impro I" and "Impro II"; interpretations without any preconceived parameters, just letting the music exist and expand as it is played.

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The element that homogenizes all this different worlds, is the improvisation. Each of this pieces work like a jumping platform to an open and spontaneous playing; and suddenly they find themselves on the same musical level, where the time and place of precedence blur, letting the music be music.