"The recording of "Mobiles/motifs" is yet another piano story. I intended to do it at home with the help of two friends, Sarah and Christian. But then my little straight piano broke while tuning, and is still being repaired. So we ended up at Sarah's place during three abundantly snowy February days, and what you can hear on these six tracks is her beautiful Pleyel. The "Mobiles" side is that collection of small musical pieces, hopefully light but also a bit mind-numbing, that can be heard all along "Mille Plateaux", "Rares sont les nomades", and "Elizabeth Shadow"; and the "motifs" side is the rest - what makes the mobile move...
The memory of my father Jean-Loup, who died last winter, was with me all the while, especially on "Rares sont les nomades" and on the hidden track (let's name it: "1001 nuits")."
- Claude-Marin Herbert




Recording info

- Tracks -
1. Mille plateaux
2. Rares sont les nomades
3. La Nebbia
4. Elizabeth Shadow
5. Haïku
...

Words and music: Claude-Marin Herbert

Recorded in February 2005 by Sarah Triollier and Christian Ugolini.
Mixed by Christian Ugolini and Claude-Marin Herbert.
"Rares sont les nomades" contains an excerpt of John Cage's Roaratorio (which in turn contains an excerpt of a cock singing, etc.)
"Mille plateaux" is the title of a book by Gilles Deleuze (but there is also le Plateau de Millevaches, in Auvergne.)

Special thanks to Soline, Stéphane, and Cyril Zakof.

In the memory of Jean-Loup