Final Descent is excited to present Lise Barkas, a central figure in the Strasbourg experimental music scene, known for her monolithic and minimalist acoustic music centered around the bagpipe and hurdy-gurdy
The French scene for new traditional music is thriving, with a generation of young experimentalists pushing the boundaries of their musical heritage by taking century-old instruments to new frontiers
Final Descent is excited to present Lise Barkas, a central figure in the Strasbourg experimental music scene, known for her monolithic and minimalist acoustic music centered around the bagpipe and hurdy-gurdy.
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Lise Barkas (fr)
Lise Barkas is a musician living in Strasbourg, playing the century-old instruments, the hurdy-gurdy and the bagpipe. She approaches them with a contemporary take, forming a new type of traditional music.
The ever-present drone of the instruments takes the leading role in her monolithic, minimalistic music, drawing from her love of experimental electronic music and traditional French folk dance music. The results are hypnotic and meditative extended pieces where time seems to dissolve and any sense of form or structure evaporates as the sound grows deeper and deeper.
Barkas is an active figure in the vibrant scene of new traditional music in France, paving new ways for experimental music rooted in French folk traditions. She co-founded the Strasbourg-based collective Kreis / Collectif Continu together with fellow experimental-traditionalists Félix Chaillou and Léo Maurel, and often collaborates with musicians such as Yann Gourdon and Lisa Käuffert.
Her catalog is an impressive mosaic of different outputs, from the improvisations, sometimes noisy, sometimes droning and laid-back, of free-form outfit L'Écluse, to the deeply experimental, minimalist soundscapes of Compressibilit é s-a collaborative album with percussionist Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy-a number of solo recordings, and the recently re-released Lo Becat. The latter is an extraordinary collaboration with German musician Lisa Käufert, featuring two intertwining, resonating, and droning bagpipes. This is just one release amongst many other amazing albums, released on Barkas' own small-run label, Soleils Bleus / Soleils Continus, a label specializing handmade CDs featuring folk, improvised, and experimental music from Strasbourg.
"The sound is harsh and rough, harsh on the ear with its rotating screeching, metallic hissing, in its singing way. In what ways ancient folk tunes can nourish today's music does not indicate melancholy for a world where musical harmony wanted to bring people together, pacify their world. It is as if Lise Barkas discovered through them a lost community which manifests itself in these folklores and their festivals, opening onto our uneasy times through the dissonance, the in-harmony of current music, the black mirror of our times."
Michel Henritzi, Revue & Corrigée
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The concert is part of our limited-capacity series at Metronomen, 144000, where only 40 tickets are available for each show. The ticket includes a cup of tea. The concert is supported by Frederiksberg Kommune and Frederiksberg Fonden. Thanks!
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The French scene for new traditional music is thriving, with a generation of young experimentalists pushing the boundaries of their musical heritage by taking century-old instruments to new frontiers
Final Descent is excited to present Lise Barkas, a central figure in the Strasbourg experimental music scene, known for her monolithic and minimalist acoustic music centered around the bagpipe and hurdy-gurdy.
Buy tickets
Lise Barkas (fr)
Lise Barkas is a musician living in Strasbourg, playing the century-old instruments, the hurdy-gurdy and the bagpipe. She approaches them with a contemporary take, forming a new type of traditional music.
The ever-present drone of the instruments takes the leading role in her monolithic, minimalistic music, drawing from her love of experimental electronic music and traditional French folk dance music. The results are hypnotic and meditative extended pieces where time seems to dissolve and any sense of form or structure evaporates as the sound grows deeper and deeper.
Barkas is an active figure in the vibrant scene of new traditional music in France, paving new ways for experimental music rooted in French folk traditions. She co-founded the Strasbourg-based collective Kreis / Collectif Continu together with fellow experimental-traditionalists Félix Chaillou and Léo Maurel, and often collaborates with musicians such as Yann Gourdon and Lisa Käuffert.
Her catalog is an impressive mosaic of different outputs, from the improvisations, sometimes noisy, sometimes droning and laid-back, of free-form outfit L'Écluse, to the deeply experimental, minimalist soundscapes of Compressibilit é s-a collaborative album with percussionist Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy-a number of solo recordings, and the recently re-released Lo Becat. The latter is an extraordinary collaboration with German musician Lisa Käufert, featuring two intertwining, resonating, and droning bagpipes. This is just one release amongst many other amazing albums, released on Barkas' own small-run label, Soleils Bleus / Soleils Continus, a label specializing handmade CDs featuring folk, improvised, and experimental music from Strasbourg.
"The sound is harsh and rough, harsh on the ear with its rotating screeching, metallic hissing, in its singing way. In what ways ancient folk tunes can nourish today's music does not indicate melancholy for a world where musical harmony wanted to bring people together, pacify their world. It is as if Lise Barkas discovered through them a lost community which manifests itself in these folklores and their festivals, opening onto our uneasy times through the dissonance, the in-harmony of current music, the black mirror of our times."
Michel Henritzi, Revue & Corrigée
Bandcamp
The concert is part of our limited-capacity series at Metronomen, 144000, where only 40 tickets are available for each show. The ticket includes a cup of tea. The concert is supported by Frederiksberg Kommune and Frederiksberg Fonden. Thanks!
Entrance fee: 60 dkr
