Re-discoverer of the hurdy-gurdy, inventor of its electrified version, guitar player with Jacques Brel at the time of his youth, composer for the 'Comédie Française' academy, Valentin Clastrier is an heretic: a musician who has choosen his own way. Inspired by the throat singing diphonic techniques from Eastern Asia, also author of an electroacoustic drum-cube, Clastrier's work is mainly off the tracks from the traditional repertory of the hurdy-gurdy. On Hérésie he has gathered together a impressing team of gifted musicians, Michel Godard on tuba and serpent, Louis Sclavis on clarinets, and Gérard Siracusa on percussions, including Burmese gongs on Sine sole nihil, that sound marvelously well with the hurdy-gurdy.
Valentin Clastrier
Silex - Y225402
of the Hurdy-Gurdy
Valentin Clastrier
Auvidis - B6130