Ferran Fages Pel Nord

"Ferran Fages - improviser and composer. He plays guitar, amplifiers, radios, resonant objects, acoustic turntable and electronics: "feedback mixing board", pick-ups and oscillators. He was member of the collective IBA col.lectiu d'improvisació from 1999 to 2006. He is also member of duo Cremaster (with Alfredo Costa Monteiro) Besides his projects, he is collaborating with various musicians, among them with Christopher Williams, Martin Küchen, Will Guthrie, Jean-Philippe Gross and Pascal Battus. The compositions specially made for this release are a novel and undocumented experience for this interesting sound artist. As source of sound he used radio receivers exclusively. It may seem that using various unconventional devices, often extremely amplified and processed, has become a staple of contemporary experimental music language. "*Pèl Nord*", however, seems very fresh and certainly makes a new, intriguing chapter in the career of this composer. The dynamics of the record doesn't rely on a traditional patter of a quiet start, increasing drone and reverberating finale. Unhurriedly, it accustoms the listener to the changes in minute details so that the original source of sound soon becomes obscure and one forgets the playing time as well. Minimal and extended, these static compositions of unusual beauty based on vibrations and radio reverberations are obviously a result of physical properties of the untypical instrument, modulated by Ferran Fages with great care and precision, one might even say, virtuosity."