Winter Family
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Ruth Rosenthal (vocals) and Xavier Klaine (harmonium, organ, piano) play music fed by the city’s strength and power.
Fed by the numerous stories you gather when you wander in the streets and listen to the thousand sounds floating in the air, the breath of the city’s ardor. It’ll be difficult to forget the moments when, while on the old city’s rooftops, we heard some strange music mingled with incantations in Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin; it was noise from a radio, its rhythm provided by sirens and other plane noises.
A huge sound collage that inspired contemplation in us. Yet this quest for simplicity echoes in Winter Family’s music, whose minimalism reveals an absolute faith in the musical gesture. You can’t miss it when you watch this video: Ruth’s hands caressing the city, her voice telling all the stories, while Xavier, rooted, changes all the surrounding whispers into a hypnotizing drone with only one argument: the bellows of his harmonium. – La Blogo Theque
