Last month, the Nantes and Paris-based non-profit independent music booking agency and record label Murailles Music shared a fascinating documentary on Borja Flames, as part of their ongoing Echos documentary series – imagined and produced by Julien Courquin.
Their latest offers an insight into the life and work of French Cellist Gaspar Claus who is well known for his collaborations; I first became aware of him through Barlande (2011), a collaboration with his father, Flamenco guitar player Pedro Soler. The finale of that album, Encuentro En Brooklyn, was an improvised piece on which they were joined by Bryce Dessner on guitar and Sufjan Stevens on harmonium. His more recent album, Tancade, was described: Annihilating all attempts at categorization, the album evokes chamber music suspended in the fourth dimension, the soundtrack of an experimental film or the strange folk music of an undiscovered tribe.