Haiku by Duot, Ramon Prats, Albert Cirera

C‌AT
Aquest disc que teniu a les mans es va començar a gestar ja fa uns anys, en adonar-nos que teníem ganes de jugar amb idees curtes, imatges sonores de durada atòmica però plenes de significat. Així va néixer la idea d’inspirar-nos en els Haikus.

El 50% del grup volia desenvolupar el concepte, intentar evocar amb el so allò que els haikus representen amb la paraula.

L’altre 50%, no tant... Per què Haikus? No podien ser aforismes, o senzillament imatges? O fins i tot, tocar partint d'una sola idea i fer-la viure, créixer i morir en pocs minuts?

Quan ens vam animar a entrar a l'estudi no teníem definit quina relació hi hauria entre la música i tot allò, ni tan sols si ho faríem servir... i ens vam centrar a fer el que sempre hem fet: tocar sense pensar en res més, escoltar-nos, seguir-nos, i deixar-nos endur per al moment.

Totes aquelles converses, però, van sembrar una llavor que ens va situar en un estat desconegut per nosaltres i que va donar els seus fruits.

Aquest disc és un retrat d'aquella sacsejada.

ENG
‌This album you have in your hands began to take shape a few years ago, when we realized that we wanted to play with short ideas, sound images of atomic duration but full of meaning. That's how the idea of ​​taking inspiration from Haikus was born.

50% of the group wanted to develop the concept, try to evoke with sound what haikus represent with words.

The other 50%, not so much... Why Haikus? Couldn't they be aphorisms, or simply images? Or even, play based on a single idea and make it live, grow and die in a few minutes?

When we decided to enter the studio we had not defined what the relationship would be between music and all that, not even if we would use it... and we focused on doing what we have always done: play without thinking about anything else, listen to each other, follow each other, and let ourselves be carried away for the moment.

All those conversations, however, sowed a seed that placed us in a state unknown to us and that bore fruit.

This album is a portrait of that upheaval.

Duot are Albert Cirera on saxos and Ramon Prats on drums and nowadays are one of the main groups of free jazz and improvised music of the Iberian Peninsula.

www.duot.cat