>> Hector Zazou
Sonora #2 & Biography

>> Note sul disco
Acknowledgements
in the booklet

>> "Shaken,
not stirred"
interview
(version française)

>> Lyrics

>> Works
chronology

>> Gallery
by John B. Root
taken from Sonora Portraits #2

>> Portraits
in Loro Ciuffenna
by Lucia Baldini

>> Buy this CD

project by
Giampiero Bigazzi
& Hector Zazou

music performed by
Laurie Anderson
Jane Birkin
Lori Carson
Melanie Gabriel
Lisa Germano
Irene Grandi
Nicola Hitchcock
Nina Hynes
Caroline Lavelle
Sarah-Jane Morris
Catherine Russell
Emma Stow

Ryuichi Sakamoto, piano
Stefano Bollani, piano
Mathias Desmiers, guitar
Lone Kent, guitar
Dennis Rea, guitar
Pierre Chaze, guitar
David Coulter,
musical saw
Orio Odori, clarinet
Renaud Pion, clarinet
Marisa Rossi, flute
Carlos Nuñez, flute
Marco Bardi, oboe
Carlo Bardi, basson
David Macinai, trumpet
Bill Rieflin,
drums & percussions
Archaea Strings
Mauro Tabbrucci, violin
Vieri Bugli, violin
Marcello Puliti, viola
Damiano Puliti, cello
Jacques de Rignancourt,
treated violin
Hector Zazou,
sounds etc.


Sonora
CD + BOOK maso 90133

La mia vera idea, della quale sono perfettamente consapevole da quando mi sento compositore, è l'affratellamento dei popoli, l'affratellamento ad onta di tutte le guerre e tutti i contrasti. Fin dove le mie forze me lo permettono, io cerco di servire questa idea con la mia musica; perciò non mi sottraggo ad alcun influsso, provenga esso da fonte slovacca, rumena, araba o qualsiasi altra. Basta che la fonte sia pura, fresca e sana.


Béla Bartók, lettera a Octavian Beu, 1931.

The idea I have truly believed in ever since I have thought of myself as a composer is the brotherhood of all peoples, a brotherhood regardless of all wars and conflicts. As much as my strength allows me, I try to serve this idea with my music; and so I do not recoil from any influence, whether it comes from a Slovak, Romanian, Arab source or any other. It suffices that the source is pure, fresh and true.


Béla Bartók, letter to Octavian Beu, 1931.