Laurent Garnier

Exclusive batch of CD albums with the Laurent Garniers music he did for Suivront Mille Ans De Calme (And then, one thousand years of peace), the contemporary ballet performance by choreographer Angelin Preljocaj. Laurent Garnier was asked to produce the music for the performance and he did an extremely nice job with this 17 track CD! Unfortunately the CD release is not officially released or available anywhere else then the theatre company in Aix-en-provence... however we've managed to get a handful of copies of this cd which comes packed in a beautiful booklet with introductions to the different contributors to the ballet. ...................................................: For some additional information about the inspirations, this is what the choreograph says about the piece: ''Working within a poetic and impressionist vein, And then, one thousand years of peace relies on an assiduous but not irrational reading of the Apocalypse. One should thus refrain from looking for images or clichés that illustrate, directly or referentially, Saint John's famous text.

A fertile source of interpretation, the very word Apocalypse (from the Greek apo: ''to lift'' and calypsis: ''veil'') evokes the idea of revealing, unveiling, or highlighting elements that could be present in our world but are hidden from our eyes. It should thus evoke what is nestled in the innermost recesses of our existence, rather than prophesizing about compulsive waves of catastrophe, irreparable destruction, or the imminent end of the world.

When dance, the art of the indescribable par excellence, assumes the role of the developer (in the photographic sense), is it not most able to realize this delicate function of exposing our fears, anxieties, and hopes? Dance relentlessly highlights the entropy of molecules programmed in the memory of our flesh that heralds the Apocalypse of bodies. It stigmatises our rituals and reveals the incongruity of our positions, be they of a social, religious or pagan nature.

And then, one thousand years of peace wishes to graze these bodies that drift along blindly, tossed about by ideals and beliefs, somewhat lost between the lines of the Apocalypse.''

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