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01. Allan Gilbert Balon - Stella Maris
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02. Allan Gilbert Balon - Lustras
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03. Allan Gilbert Balon - Pleuro Delez Waltz
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04. Allan Gilbert Balon - S.O.S Dolphin bay club
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05. Allan Gilbert Balon - Ogadia
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ARTIST
BALON, ALLAN GILBERT
TITLE
The Magnesia Suite
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
RECITAL
CATALOG #
R 108LP
R 108LP
GENRE
CLASSICAL
RELEASE DATE
10/4/2024
Recital presents composer
Allan Gilbert Balon
's first full-length LP. Born 1986 in Les Abymes on the island of Guadeloupe, Balon is an artist (exhibiting at MoMA PS1 in 2022) who publishes beautiful handmade books and audio on XYÄ Edition run with
Uta Guan Hyë
in Créteil, France where he now resides.
The Magnesia Suite
harbors an unhurried, coastal tranquility that flows lucidly as an album. Though prominently a pianist, a breadth of Balon's musical spheres are visited on this record. Disparate elements of percussion, reeds, organ, voice, and tape recordings are all cast together. Each slowly excavated, surveyed and then set away. "Stella Maris" opens with an organ and voice procession in the vein of a
Charlemagne Palestine
singing piece. "Lustras" is a patchwork of various tape captures (a la
Alvin Curran
,
Rip Hayman
, or
André Thomkins
); piano clusters dredge into xylophone by night with cicadas swimming in radio transmissions. First hearing the track "Pleuro Delez Waltz" is what made Recital approach Allan about making an album. The proximity of the voices against the small percussions, all laced with Balon's piano stylings. The album ends with "Ogadia," a gentle piano march with soprano saxophone and electronics. Feels like a
Dave Burrell
-infused rag played slowly, beautifully resolving the outsider-jazz-sound-art-poetry-collages of
The Magnesia Suite
. The LP includes a booklet of quiet texts and beautiful graphic scores.
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