The saxophone quartet known in Europe
and internationally as Art&Sax have released their latest single,
“Introduction et Variations sur une Ronde Populaire (Fonai Remix).”
The track is the most significant official release from the group
since their popular July 2014 debut EP, “Gare St. Lazare,” which
garnered them positive remarks from music critics and casual
listeners alike from around the globe. The Fonai remix of
“Introduction et Variations sur une Ronde Populaire” by Art&Sax
is the most recent example of today's classical resurgence in modern
listening trends, as well as a sign that classic compositions can
still be renewed by players like Art&Sax with dazzlingly
creative, contemporary flair.
“Introduction et Variations sur une
Ronde Populaire” is a standard classical piece for saxophone
quartets by French composer Gabriel Pierne. Art&Sax's masterful
performance of this selection has also been rendered into its
razor-sharp, hyper-futuristic present form by digital composer Fonai,
AKA Andrzej Pieszak. Pieszak is a Warsaw-based DJ specializing in
sounds and sonic textures of new-millennium urban landscapes. The
electronic frills etched by Fonai onto the flawless brass canvas of
Art&Sax results in a track that is part classical, part jazz, and
all good.
Art&Sax have published
“Introduction et Variations sur une Ronde Populaire” on New
York's Scotch and Murder Music independent record label, to which
they have been unwaveringly loyal. The label's steadily growing
strength in both underground and mainstream listening circles is at
least partially due to top-shelf remixes of pop music by the likes of
Willow Smith and Arcade Fire, but more importantly to original
recordings by performance groups like Art&Sax.
Scotch and Murder Music describe
themselves on their official Facebook page as, “An exodus from the
nonsensical radio waves / A world apart from the mainstream / Only
the finest of music belongs here.”
“Introduction et Variations sur une
Ronde Populaire (Fonai Remix)” by Art&Sax is available online
worldwide.
-S. McCauley
Lead Press Release Writer
www.MondoTunes.com
“Introduction et Variations sur
une Ronde Populaire (Fonai Remix)” by Art&Sax –
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