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Hémisphère / Hemisfär
Karin Johansson
Label: Havtorn Records
Released: 2024
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Tracks
1.Clairsemé; 2.Det är sent nu; 3.Tiden; 4.La murmuration des oiseaux; 5.Snåren; 6.I det förflutna; 7.Les traces visibles; 8.Dans un moment; 9.Fondre; 10.Skuggsång; 11.Frost; 12.L'aube; 13.Sfär
Personnel
Additional Personnel / Information
Paul Jarret - guitar, prepared guitar Karin Johansson - piano, prepared piano Donovan von Martens - double bass
Album Description
https://pauljarret.bandcamp.com/album/h-misph-re-hemisf-r The music is never the same. It verifies its positions and conditions, its peculiar way of listening to the cavities, the motions started, the tensions between sound and silence, tone and memory. Nature is present not only as trees and clouds, light and shadows. It is a readiness for what is constantly changing, a heightened awareness on the minimal variations in the materials and processes at hand, what it means to slowly examine a rough surface, the transformation of a rhythm, a melodic phrase emerging and disappearing. The fact that the three musicians are playing one string instrument each, has for certain its significance. The three members of the trio communicate and put questions to each other, through the experimental playing techniques used. The 13 tracks that constitute the album Hémisphère consist of a series of concentrated and condensed situations, defined by the vibrations arising on and beside the strings, through different sets of preparations and interferences. And now and then what is created start to sound like completely different instruments, as if somebody played the clarinet or was blowing a bamboo. The room of nature is widened and the music travels, from day to night and back to the light of day. Improvisation becomes composition and composition becomes sound painting in a way that triggers the imagination and the unbounded exploration of sounds. You can hear echoes from the minimalism of Morton Feldman, the freeform playing of Derek Bailey, the impressionism of Claude Debussy. But the sharpness of the music is not the result of stylistic purity. It is has to do with the open and free attitude to what it means to make music together. / Magnus Haglund, writer and critic, Gothenburg *** Recorded and mixed by Martin Öhman at Skogen studio, Österbymo. Mastered by Linus Andersson at Elementstudion, Göteborg. Cover art by Ingeborg Zackariassen. Cover layout by Donovan von Martens. https://www.havtornrecords.com/
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