Lore LarraÃ±aga designed and commissioned a totally new instrument to explore how the accordion could express microtonal music and this is the first ever recording of this whole genre. A gratifyingly inventive listening experience, Ispilu marks the first recording of Basque accordionist Lore Amenabar LarraÃ±aga's self-designed quarter-tone accordion, custom built by Bugari Armando. Lore has engaged in a detailed investigation of her custom quarter-tone accordion, exploring it's technical and sonic boundaries through the commissioning of a new body of collaborative works, written between 2020 and 2022, during her PhD studies at the Royal Academy of Music. Lore explains: "The design of my instrument allows the production of quarter tones in both the right and left-hand manuals. The range and timbral possibilities of this instrument are expanded through the use of fifteen registers on the right manual and seven on the left manual, resulting in a sounding range of E-2 to B-quarter-sharp-6 in the right hand and E-1 to D-quarter-sharp-6 in the left. From Electra Perivolaris to Christopher Fox, Michael Finnissy to Mioko Yokoyama, this album will accommodate diverse textures, voices, and ideas; all gravitating around the Quarter-Tone Accordion"

Tracklist:

Fleeting Puddles [09:18]
Barafostus' Dreame [08:48]
My Time Is Your Time [12:38]
Feast [05:05]
Permissible Self-Expression [17:10]
Der Stimme Der Stadt [10:09]
Crystalline Air [08:41]
L'eaurelle [04:59]

UPC: 809730710827
Label: Metier
Release Date: 9.8.23
Format: CD

Bousted / Finnissy / Muresanu - Ispilu (CD)