9. Alain KremskiMusique Rituelle Pour Cloches Et Gongs
I discovered Kremski’s work because of his connection to [George] Gurdjieff and [Thomas] de Hartmann. Then, I discovered the music by Alain Kremski, and I think not enough people know it! Again, the way he uses the acoustic sound and resonance, it taught me a lot about resonance in general. What a bell sound is, for example. Bell sounds are from such a long time ago, and you can hear bells everywhere in the world.
There is a book I really like called Technicians of the Sacred by Jerome Rothenberg, where he compiled oral poetry from all over the world. To me, that book and this record would go very well together, because there is this idea of ritual and music that is so simple and so common, something that could be shared with so many people, it doesn’t belong to a genre. This is also something I was interested in: sometimes, categories in music are a bit tiring. Here is this record which can speak to people who listen to jazz, to world music, to classical music. It’s in between genres, and I can’t be tired of that.
