Elision Ensemble - Strange Forces

Because of their age and their cultural ubiquity, brass instruments, more than most members of the Western orchestra, carry a host of cultural associations: angelic trumpets, royal fanfares, hunting calls, Last Posts and Louis Armstrong. No composer can be insensitive of that back story, yet it need not impose sterility of conservatism� H�bler opened up numerous possibilities in the controlled, structured parametrisation of instrumental practice. This disc records a recent period of attention to virtuoso brass music, to which Cercar is an ancestor.