Angel Rock by jppo

Angel Rock was inspired in Berio’s treatment of folk material and its adaptation to a contemporary setup, as he did in works like Coro or Folksongs.
This piece gets its sound influences in “hard rock” and “progressive rock” music of the eighties. The explosive gestures, contrasting with high pitched sustained notes, try to emulate in my own personal language, some memories I still have in my mind, from those times.
The electronics are used as an expansion of the instruments, acting like a “ghost” of the instrumental gestures. Those “ghost” sounds somehow “distort” the pure instrumental sounds, in the same way my recollections of the rock sounds from the eighties are “distorted” in my memory, because of thirty years of distance.
Angel Rock was commissioned by the Giga-Hertz Award and composed at the SWR studio in Freiburg.