CLARA PEYA (Barcelona, 2024)

Clara Peya - “Puxi”
Live in Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau
Filmed by Vincent Moon
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Mastering by Sylvestre Nonique-Desvergnes
Piano by Fundació Victoria Dels Angels
Thanks to Aina Pociello, Andrea Posada Lamount, and everybody at Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau
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Part of the Antisol Negro site specific project - produced by O.V.N.I / desorg.org and Petites Planètes
Barcelona, March 2024
PP CC BY-NC-SA
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And a little text about the recording process:

« There was some confusion in the air - we moved shooting dates a few times, Clara felt sick and cancelled once, we moved again the schedule and ended up finally one early morning, alone with a grand piano in the legendary Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau. The perfect preparation for a rare recording.

I was in town for the ‘Antisol Negro’ site specific project - documenting modern music in Barcelona and using that material for a unique live show at the end of the week. It was joyfully intense to run around town, but no other locations looked so gorgeous as this art nouveau hospital.

Built by Catalan modernist architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner in between 1901 and 1930 (and inscribed on the unesco list), it faces the Sagrada Familia following a large diagonal in the northeastern part of Barcelona. Filming in such grandiose places is something I mostly avoided for a while - the architecture can simply takes us away from the performance itself, from the music and the magic.

But I have recently been enjoying more and more « pianos in weird situations » - it reminds me of that incredible film we did with Tareq Al-Nasser in the desert of Wadi Rum last year - and this Steinway was majestic. On top of this, that morning Clara was mute - only expressing with gestures. It only added to fill the air got with more beautiful strangeness.

The museum would soon open to visits, we had to hurry - the last take would be the right one - a generous movement around the piano, two autistic artists with their tools in the hands, and a touch of ´duende’ to it. The new genius of piano from Catalonia in all her power. »


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