La Bête / The Beast Within

Original music for the dance production by O Vertigo; choreographed by Ginette Laurin

For this album, Jean Derome was commissioned by Montréal’s O Vertigo dance troupe and their production “The Beast Within,” directed by Ginette Laurin.

Here, Derome treats us with an exploration of animalistic qualities, whether in violence, sensuality or spirituality. The Beast Within is a fresh, rhythmic album full of changing textures, evoking the weaving of fabrics, suspiration, spaces of spectacle such as the cabaret, the circus and our urban environment… Derome’s music dynamically intermingles improvisation and composition while employing, almost exclusively, acoustic instruments for their organic and stratingly real presence.

La Bête, the Beast Within; music which inhabits the body and moves the soul.

Track Listing

    • 1
      Prologue
      4m04s
    • 2
      Mélusine
      3m11s
    • 3
      La lutine mutine / Carrousel
      5m42s
    • 4
      La sorcière / La valse de la fragilité
      5m27s
    • 5
      Madeleine
      2m23s
    • 6
      Femme-lion au crépuscule
      2m45s
    • 7
      Les femmes enceintes / Groupe de la retenue
      7m00s
    • 8
      Crépuscule
      5m19s
    • 9
      Duo Crépuscule / Jean-Joseph
      4m21s
    • 10
      Jean-Joseph
      5m27s
    • 11
      Adieu mon cœur
      4m41s
    • 12
      Lolita
      2m54s
    • 13
      La folie de Mélusine
      2m59s
    • 14
      L’apaisement
      6m10s
    • 15
      Duo des ventres / les archanges
      6m39s
    • 16
      Mourir
      1m51s
Total duration: 71m02s

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