Minimalism on Facebook

The pope's last album of minimalist music, Michael Nyman, serious man, say, part of Facebook, press clippings that appeared in the Berlusconi and YouTube videos.
It is The Glare, a curious collaboration between Nyman-creator of the soundtrack to The Piano "and David McAlmont, and subtle semidesconocido English soul singer of 40 years and androgynous voice. Tonight at Madrid-Circo Price, "and tomorrow in Barcelona-Palau de la Música-present it live. "We met almost 10 years ago at a party," says Nyman, UK 65. "We joked about working together but lost touch. In 2008 we met by chance on Facebook. We exchanged messages and we met to work. I offered several long songs and gave them freedom to do whatever he wanted."
McAlmont wrote the letters in first person, now torn from newspapers and YouTube videos. The two talents merged into something like a haunting soundtrack. You hear the stories of a couple from New Zealand who received seven million euros for a bank error and that, of course, fled, a Nigerian immersed in a prostitution ring, a contestant from Big Brother to a lover of Berlusconi. "I do not know if he has heard the song," says Nyman by telephone from a hotel in Mexico. "I have not received any calls from Italy than to play". Has a reputation for weird. Personality develops, the piano gave him international success ... reluctantly. "I'm tired relating only to that when they speak of me. Over time I have come to feel proud, but not my best work." Another recurring theme is his collaboration with Peter Greenaway, but the composer is credited with more than soundtracks: there are opera and chamber music.
"This is an album of pop, without being pop. He explains: "The pop does not interest me too much, especially for the marketing that surrounds it. There is more freedom in the classical than pop, where everything is subject to a commercial straitjacket.



Precisely to avoid being subject to anything, Nyman, who performed Friday at the parade of Adolfo Dominguez Cybele, a few years ago he founded his own label, MN Records, which works "fairly well". "I'll be 66 and am among those who need something physical to listen to music or reading. As are the shops of CDs and books, I would say that those who are like me, just survived."