Jeux d’eau (Water games) is the sophomore album of the experimental ensemble, the Copenhagen Clarinet Choir – Irish Carolyn Goodwin (who also plays the bass clarinet), Italian Francesco Bigoni, German Jonas Engel, and Danish Henriette Groth, Anders Banke, and Maria Dybbroe (both Banke and Dybbroe also play the bass clarinet) – with Danish composer-multi-instrumentalist Anders Lauge Meldgaard, who plays the vintage keyboard New Ondomo (a Japanese instrument modeled on the pioneering French electronic instrument) and the modular synth Eurorack electronics. Meldgaard works in a wide field of musical expressions, ranging from contemporary music to free improvisation, sound installations, songwriting, orchestral collages, chamber music, mixtapes, and electronic music. He is interested in the tension between composition and improvisation, and how it can be used as a motivating force to propel his musical adventures.
Jeux d’eau was inspired by Meldgaard’s visit to the gardens of Villa
