Table De Mendeleiev, La -et Andrea Parkins-
Liver Azoth
For the past 10 years, the group La Table de Mendeleïev set themselves the challenge of putting to music all 118 identified chemical elements. The resulting musical alchemy has echoes of John Zorn, Andr Bauchant, Henri Texier, Steve Reich, Francis Bacon, Ornette Coleman, Le Corbusier, The Roof and Anthony Braxton. Didacticism is expelled afar, as here the music succumbs to the listeners imagination and insight when discovering the symmetry between the elements and their melodies.With Liber Azoth, La Table de Mendeleïev are continuing on this alchemical adventure, this time inviting a leading figure from the New York underground jazz scene to play alongside them, accordion player and electroacoustic musician Andrea Parkins. She leaves her unique musical mark on all her collaborations thanks to her iconoclastic approach to jazz - an important notion shared also by this quartet.The group expands their repertoire with eight new chemical elements which have been specially composed for her: bismuth, polonium, astatine, radon, francium, radium, rutherfordium and dubnium. This volumes eight elements have been shaped and combined according to a very old formula, that of a concerto, whereby the structure is composed of three movements.