[…] Wie zijn hedendaagse muziek graag messcherp en “experimenteel” heeft, zal in de muziek van Fafchamps teleurgesteld zijn. Wie louter op zoek is naar lichte, postmoderne klassiek die vooral in Hollywood op gejuich onthaald wordt waarschijnlijk nog meer. Toch...
[…] Hazrat Inayat Khan also teaches the importance of wazifa – “the power of the word which works upon each atom of the body, making it sonorous, making it a medium of communication between the external life and the inner life”. Jean-luc...
For ten years Belgian composer Jean-Luc Fafchamps has written music inspired by and named after the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet. He has now written pieces for 13 letters. Fifteen letters still remain. […] Once you have letters you can make words, and this...
Belgian composer Jean-Luc Fafchamps writes in an appealingly post-everything style, with diatonic minimalist gestures butting up against wheezy microtonal drones and so forth. Fafchamps’s latest muse is the Arabic alphabet, specifically a Sufi chart assigning certain...
Reprenant la création live de la première grande œuvre symphonique de Jean-Luc Fafchamps (Ars Musica 2006), le présent CD, soigneusement remastérisé, en restitue tout le mystère et l’éclat. Selon la vision du compositeur, chacune des six lettres soufies en présence...
…It also courts seriousness and solemnity. Both figure highly in a recording of the composer Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories, written in 1981 and reconfigured for a new release in recent months on the Belgian label Sub Rosa. Played by Jean-Luc Fafchamps,...
Double cd, with works by Matalon, Deleuze, Hyernaux, Janssens, H. Pousseur, Brewaeys, Kishino Sufi letter: ‘Ain (Maintenant), by HERMESensemble under the direction of Koen Kessels. …
Nicolas Krüger (piano), Sébastien Walnier (cello) Various folk songs for voice and piano (Tomasi, Berio, Wolf-Ferrari, Ravel, Britten, Honegger) and Les amours de Madame Tchabaï, …
A new CD of my quartets is published by Cypres. Quatuor MP4 (Claire Bourdet, Margaret Hermant, Pierre Heneaux, Merryl Havard), Jean-Luc Fafchamps (Fender Rhodes), Centre …
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