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Percussionists are strange musicians. Even when they are perfectly integrated into various groups and orchestras, they are always a breed apart, no doubt because their instruments take them to the ends of the world on imaginary journeys with no temporal or geograpgical limits. I first met Joël Grare when we were making the recording of works by the seventeenth-century Florentine composer Domenico Belli with Le Poème Harmonique (Alpha002), directed by Vincent Dumestre. Since then, he has taken part in the ensemble's concerts and recordings whenever percussion has been needed, always with a different set of instruments and another approach to rhythm. For nothing can be more boring, especially in Baroque music, than basic percussion that does nothing more than underline the beat. I was impressed and charmed by the multiple facets of the music composed and played here by Joël Grare. They reflect his background and his tastes; influences including Stravinsky and Prokoviev, the group Magma and Johnny Hallyday, the master drummers of Burundi, and the stirring sound of bells pealing out...The dance is present, too, with artists such as Corolyn Carlson, Régine Chopinot, Angelin Preljocaj and Zheng-Wu — the dance, which has been associated with percussion no doubt since the dawn of time. Jean-Paul Combet

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