{"id":131870,"date":"2025-01-27T15:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T20:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/records\/louies-cage-percussion-pure\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T12:47:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T17:47:54","slug":"louies-cage-percussion-pure","status":"publish","type":"records","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/records\/louies-cage-percussion-pure\/","title":{"rendered":"Louie\u2019s Cage Percussion\u00a0: Pure\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The eight musicians of the Austrian ensemble Louie\u2019s Cage Percussion regularly play with major orchestras in Vienna or Graz and are all virtuosos of the baton and mallet. The pieces presented here, which form a concert programme, are by two of the members of the ensemble: Sebastian Brugner-Luiz (2) and Florian Klinger (3); the latter has also arranged a work by Debussy. A third member of the group, Lucas Salaun, offers an arrangement of the overture to Verdi\u2019s La forza del destino. A strange title, \u201cPure\u201d, for a programme that aims precisely to demonstrate the full range of sound textures that the extreme variety of percussion instruments contains. If we also use a malletKAT (midi xylophone), a Keytar (a keyboard midi controller that is held like a guitar) and a few instruments invented for the occasion, let\u2019s say that the palette of available sounds is almost infinite. This is especially the case in the opening piece, Radio Island, where we could be dealing with a jazz combo, with piano, electric guitar and bass (instruments that are nevertheless absent). The piece is also full of spoken voice samples, some of which are taken from Orson Welles\u2019 superb interpretation of H. G. Wells\u2019 The War of the Worlds in 1938. The piece Alphabetic Klimt is also rooted in jazz, its composer, Florian Klinger, being also known as an excellent jazz vibraphonist. An excerpt of the piece can be seen here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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