Five concertos for percussion ensemble and soloists
Percussions : Les Percussions de Strasbourg
Piano : Benoît Delbecq
Guitar : Marc Ducret
Dj : eRikM
Vocal : Emilie Lesbros
Percussions : Bobby Previte
Composition and arrangement : Bobby Previte
Coproduction : Percussions de Strasbourg and La Filature, Scène nationale de Mulhouse
Composed by the American jazz musician Bobby Previte, Terminals features Les Percussions de Strasbourg and five great French improvisers. Their separate concertos dovetail in a thrilling and prolific meeting of the classical and the improvised worlds.
Terminals places the standard orchestral percussion instruments (timpani, snare drum, triangle), alongside instruments that in the last century were codified into the percussion literature (brake drums, anvils, almglocken), regional instruments highly associated with folk music (cuica, spoons, talking drum, timbales), electronic percussion (drum machine), and unclassifiable elements (bullwhip), to fashion a landscape to each soloist.
“One day on a Delta Airlines flight I was bored, so I reached into the seat pocket and pulled out the magazine. I became fascinated with the “Terminal Maps”, graphic representations of those spaces we all pass through so often in modern life. The drawings reminded me of percussion instruments set up on a stage. At this moment, Terminals was born”. Bobby Previte