CAGE2

CAGE2 is the title of Bertrand Chamayou's new album - he calls it the twin brother of his most recent Letter(s) to Erik Satie - both recorded at the Miraval studios. CAGE² is also the title of a performance Bertrand Chamayou conceived with dancer and choreographer Élodie Sicard, featuring 12 pieces composed by John Cage for prepared piano, in the period between 1940 and 1945. John Cage wrote all the pieces of this album for dance solos: for the American dancer Syvilla Fort, for dancers and choreographers such as Valérie Bettis, Wilson Williams, Pearl Primus, Jean Erdman, but also for the terrific Merce Cunningham. Bertrand has also delivered brilliant booklet notes on Cage, the genesis of the prepared piano and the pieces themselves. Track List: Disc: 1 1. Mysterious Adventure 2. The Unavailable Memory of 3. Primitive 4. In the Name of the Holocaust: Pt. 1 5. In the Name of the Holocaust: Pt. 2 6. The Perilous Night: I 7. The Perilous Night: II 8. The Perilous Night: III 9. The Perilous Night: IV 10. The Perilous Night: V 11. The Perilous Night: VI 12. Root of An Unfocus 13. Daughters of the Lonesome Isle 14. A Valentine Out of Season: Movement I 15. A Valentine Out of Season: Movement II 16. A Valentine Out of Season: Movement III 17. Tossed As It Is Untroubled 18. Bacchanale 19. Our Spring Will Come 20. And the Earth Shall Bear Again.