Beyondddddd The Notessssss

Charlemagne Palestine & Seppe Gebruers

Live at the Junxxxxxion Hall


In the depths of Geneva’s Fonderie Kugler red-lit-boudoir, stand four grand pianos surrounded by divinities. The two elder Erard brothers are tuned
down a quarter tone lower than their neighbours, a twin pair of gleaming and valiant Yamaha’s.Charlemagne and Seppe both sit facing each other, managing the 428Hz tuning from the tip of their left hand, while the right hand controls the conventional 440Hz machine.
This four-piano fantasy was born a few years ago, when these two gentlemen met around a carillon, and realised they had a common “passion for
unusual tunings and the playing of multiple pianos”. This microtonal duo first premiered at the Bijloke in Ghent (2019), and has since remained slightly concealed until Konnekt provided the little spark to reignite this mystical-keyboard-beast.When the two pianists swap places, during a short moment of inhabited silence, we get a chance to taste what seems to lie beyond the notes. Perhaps the key to appreciating and sharing beauty is magicallyyy
mysterioussss after all.

Credits

Recorded live at Fonderie Kugler by Nicolas Field March 29th 2024
Mixed and mastered by Nicolas Field at KSL, Geneva
Cover design by Alternative
Photographs by Olivier Jaquet
Produced by Konnekt - www.konnekt.co
Catalog number: K-007252.2

Thanks

We would like to thank Pierre Van De Hel for making the Erard-mystical-twins sing, the Maurer brothers for the impeccable resonating matched pair, those good divinities that made it happen and the hall for staying true to itself by remaining a hole. Other people might disagree.