Ramon Moro : Magma
…8th May 1902: on all the Martinica the sky was obscured by a dark cloud that sprang from the volcano. It was impossible to see anything anywhere over a couple of meters. In the cathedral of the chief town Fort-de-France the congregation was ready to hear mass, when the darkness suddenly rushed on the city. In a moment, the curch was cleared out and all the believers frightened knelt down in the darkness, praying and crying and asking themselves what ever was happened in the near city of Saint Pierre. In a couple of minutes the death’s wave, that was rolling at more than 150 km an hour, reached Saint-Pierre: all the citizens, terrified, were running away, as far as possible from the hell that was just broken out.
In a very little time, all the people of this town in the Antilles died. There were just two survivors: the shoemaker Léon Compère-Léandre and the black prisoner Auguste Cyparis, to whom the italian poet Giovanni Pascoli dedicated the ode Il negro di Saint-Pierre.
For this work in solo – that I decided to call just Magma – I was inspired by this and others volcano’s disasters. I devoted many hours to a careful sound’s analysis and to try all the resources of a little valvular amplifier: the music that was born from this work is like a soundtrack for deep, dark and disturbing backgrounds, but at the same time it’s possibile to find in it some melodic references, to describe hopes, loneliness and private matters of a man really helpless in the face of nature.
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