Música: Erik Satie - Dada Works and Entr'actes

This latest release of Satie's compositions from LTM collects all the principle Dada-related works in the composer's catalogue. There's an appropriately sprightly, trashy feel to much of this music. Just listen to the rambunctious, lighthearted jaunt of 'Ragtime Dada'. It's the kind of thing you might expect to hear as live accompaniment to a Buster Keaton movie. The main draw here is the ballet in two acts, 'Relache', which was premiered just a few months prior to Satie's death. The first part of this composition is dominated by quirky, unlikely harmonic combinations, while the second sounds more overtly provocative as a venture into 'low' art; directly linked to the kind of theatrical popular music you'd associate with 1920s Paris. Nevertheless, there's still an element of disruption and dislocation lurking under the surface. Similarly, 'Entracte (Cinema)' (Satie's score to the interval film), opens with a superficially playful movement that somehow still feels underscored with an ominous sense of repetition and borderline discordance. Highly recommended.

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