Alternative Editions of Contemporary Music.

[fergus]

Boomkat:
For the past decade or so, Polish musician Michal Jacaszek has been exploring a new, resolutely modern chapter in Eastern Europe’s long, storied love affair with classical music. His creations are painstakingly crafted collages of electronic textures and baroque instrumentation, harpsichords being swarmed by woolly static one minute and pulled apart by billowing wind the next. A push-and-pull tension runs deep and constant throughout. Ambient music is rarely so sonically challenging. Jacaszek has recorded for Ghostly International, Miasmah, Gusstaff Records and Experimedia and other labels. This is his first release for Touch. Michał Jacaszek writes: "When poets and writers declare their enchantment for the forms of nature, they often use musical terms as methaphors. Visual artists' creations often resemble graphic partitas, when recapturing the rhythms of landscapes.Confirming, in a way, these musical intuitions, composers write great music deeply inspired by birdsongs, wind rustlings, waves repetitions etc. Making "Cataloguge des Arbres”, my ambition was to join this broad artistic movement devoted to natural phenomena and find my own way to describe trees: their forms, atmosphere and mystery. I have started with "open air" recordings, capturing mainly leaves'' rustlings - from different distances, in different locations and weather conditions. This collection of nature recordings was transformed into a kind of "organic drone" and becomes a main background for instrumental and voice improvisations. My initial inspiration here was Olivier Messiaen's' bird songs transcriptions for piano – the composer's work title "Catalogue d'Oiseaux" I have paraphrased on my album . A piano, clarinets, violin and percussion parts, performed by the Kwartludium ensemble, were electronically processed, and afterwards all this electro-acoustic material was turned into a collection of 8 soundscapes - forgotten songs performed secretly by my beloved trees."

I was about to reply and comment that the instrumentation should sound interesting when I noticed that you had a youtube clip embedded which did not show in your original post Dermot. I have fixed it here and yes, the clip was an interesting listen.

[cybot]

Thanks Fergus. Glad you like it. The sleeve is 'cool' too, isn't it?

[fergus]

Thanks Fergus. Glad you like it. The sleeve is 'cool' too, isn't it?

You are welcome Dermot.
Yes, I liked the sleeve with its rain threatening clouds.

[cybot]

1. Andrew Chalk: Ghosts of Nakbodka

2. Andrew Chalk: The Circle of Days.

3. Elodie (w. Timo Van Luijk): Miniatures Persanes

[fergus]

1. Andrew Chalk: Ghosts of Nakbodka

2. Andrew Chalk: The Circle of Days.

3. Elodie (w. Timo Van Luijk): Miniatures Persanes

Unusual cover art there Dermot.

[cybot]

Listening to this sumptuous triple vinyl set this evening. Archive work recently discovered from this rather obscure Danish electronic musician. Born in 1924 and still active! For incontrovertible proof have a look at the second Vimeo clip :)




https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Else_Marie_Pade


http://youtu.be/2KQCjxMoppg






Else Marie Pade - Electronic Works 1958 - 1995

[cybot]

1. Andrew Chalk: Ghosts of Nakbodka

2. Andrew Chalk: The Circle of Days.

3. Elodie (w. Timo Van Luijk): Miniatures Persanes

Unusual cover art there Dermot.

Apologies Fergus only seeing this now. Yes indeed; Unusual cover art for unusual music ;)

[fergus]

Listening to this sumptuous triple vinyl set this evening. Archive work recently discovered from this rather obscure Danish electronic musician. Born in 1924 and still active! For incontrovertible proof have a look at the second Vimeo clip :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Else_Marie_Pade


http://youtu.be/2KQCjxMoppg






Else Marie Pade - Electronic Works 1958 - 1995

I gave that music a listen Dermot and I got to understand it as it went on but I am not sure that I would be able to follow where it was going.

[cybot]

Listening to this sumptuous triple vinyl set this evening. Archive work recently discovered from this rather obscure Danish electronic musician. Born in 1924 and still active! For incontrovertible proof have a look at the second Vimeo clip :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Else_Marie_Pade


http://youtu.be/2KQCjxMoppg






Else Marie Pade - Electronic Works 1958 - 1995

I gave that music a listen Dermot and I got to understand it as it went on but I am not sure that I would be able to follow where it was going.

That's exactly what I love about it Fergus! It's the journey that appeals not the destination.....and it's different every time. I suppose it's my way of looking for the magic in the music of sound rather than the other way round! I wish I could explain its intrinsic appeal but then that would be pointless, wouldn't it? Years and years and years of listening to all types of music including classical has finally led me to this labyrinth of sound which makes far more sense to me simply because I seem to 'tune' into this so called 'difficult' music. I'll say one thing though, I definitely do not expect others to 'get' this music. Thankfully I'm not in a field of one like here on this forum as I know some individuals who 'understand' and enjoy this music as much as I do.

Anyway Fergus thanks at least for giving it a listen!

[fergus]

Anyway Fergus thanks at least for giving it a listen!

Always willing to listen and try Dermot!