23.07.2025
ÆGN
21:30
PAROS PARK THEATRE AI YANNIS DETIS
CONCERT
The Festival at the Park presents on Wednesday, July 23, 2025, at 21:30, at the Theater of the Park Aï-Giannis Detis, the concert “ÆGN” by renowned French double bassist Marc Buronfosse.
The journey, in which Marc Buronfosse embarks us, is comparable to Homer’s Odyssey in its imaginary elements. This is a still voyage: we travel through the motionless currents of the Aegean sea. Its inmost depths arise at the surface of Naoussa, on the island of Paros where the album was recorded.
Leaving the double bass aside he favored the curves of a Fender VI, without loosing an ounce of sensuality. Either it is a guitar or a bass, an instrument has the special power to depict a particular landscape, describing a scenery between the sky and the ground, the ground and the sea, the light and the dark, between Europe and Asia... The instrument can even transcribe the exact meeting point between these different dimensions by offering electronic sounds, which tell the story of a calm but inescapable sea.
... The instrument can even transcribe the exact meeting point between these different dimensions by offering electronic sounds, which tell the story of a calm but inescapable sea.
The salty water goes from a liquid state which roles down the drum set of Panagiotis Kostopoulos to a gaseous one warming up to the sound of Andreas Polyzogopoulos’s trumpet. This sea recalls Bill Laswell’s Panthalassic Ocean, a reminder to Miles Davis’ work. The departure is the same but we land in different places. With Hugo Corbin’s touch on the electric guitar, ÆGN draws with the precision of a cartographer every detail of the Greek Archipelago.
Κι αν η Πάρος συνεχίζει να φυλά τα μυστικά της, το άλμπουμ αυτό αποτυπώνει την υπνωτιστική, εμμονική έκσταση ενός οικείου τόπου, του οποίου σχεδόν κάθε γωνιά είναι γνωστή απ’ έξω κι ανακατωτά. Γι’ αυτό το ÆGN επιθυμεί να αγκαλιάσει όλους μας. Μπορεί να καθρεφτιστεί μέσα στον καθένα, είτε καθισμένο δίπλα στον Marc, κοιτώντας τη θάλασσα, είτε σε ένα εντελώς διαφορετικό μέρος…
Αλλά προς το παρόν, ας μείνουμε στην Πάρο. Ο καιρός είναι υπέροχος!
