Jazz Articles about Ernst Reijseger

Reijseger / Harmen Fraanje / Mola Sylla: Down Deep

by John Kelman
June 27, 2013

As one of its first signings, Ernst Reijseger has amassed a sizable discography with Winter & Winter. Werner Herzog--with whom Reijseger has also shared a lengthy relationship, scoring seven of the German film director's films since 2000's Ajax: Hark the Herald Angels Sing--has aptly described the Dutch cellist as capable of anything, furthermore suggesting that he could “play the American Civil war on his cello." Whether or not that's true remains to be seen, but clearly Herzog sees Reijseger as ...

Ernst Reijseger: My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 17, 2010

Con le colonne sonore non si è mai certi. A volte si tratta di semplici compilation. Altre volte, ed è il caso peggiore, si tratta di musiche che non hanno una loro autosufficienza. Di musiche che vivono solo in quanto complementari ad un film, a delle immagini cui però l'ascoltatore non ha accesso. L'apertura di My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, con i rumori di un treno, poteva far temere il peggio. Le prime note hanno però dissipato ...

Ernst Reijseger: Tell Me Everything

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 8, 2010

Nella primavera del 2008 Ernst Reijseger si trova tra i vigneti di Castello di Volpaia, non lontano dai quali sorge la commenda di San Eufrosino, antico edifico sacro dallo stile rinascimentale con vista mozzafiato sulle colline circostanti. La suggestione del luogo e il senso di profonda spiritualità da esso emanato non potevano lasciare indifferente il violoncellista e compositore olandese. Così che in compagnia del fido violoncello, di una coppia di vecchi microfoni, circondato dalla nuda pietra e dalla semplice architettura ...

Ernst Reigseger: Tell Me Everything

by Kurt Gottschalk
April 10, 2010

The German label Winter & Winter has a beautiful way of capturing senses of place and preserving them in elegant, corrugated covers. From audio travelogues through Cuba and Trinidad to Sardinian vocal music, the albums feel like books for your ears. Ernst Reijseger, a central figure among the Amsterdam players swimming in the Instant Composers Pool, has had a productive relationship with the label. On his solo recital Tell Me Everything, he continues his series of Italian ...

Ernst Reijseger: Do You Still

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 10, 2008

Lavoro davvero particolare, del resto come tutti i lavori a cui ci ha abituato Ernst Reijseger (clicca qui per leggere la recensione di un suo recente concerto per violoncello solo), questo Do You Still vede accanto al grande violoncellista olandese il pianista Frank van der Laar e un altro violoncello, quello di Larissa Groeneveld. Il disco ha un’impronta cameristica, ma procede tra rumori, invenzioni, continui cambi di atmosfere. Esemplare la traccia d’avvio, “Gretchen am Spinnrade (Voice from another World)”, nella ...

Ernst Reijseger: Requiem for a Dying Planet

by C. Michael Bailey
December 24, 2006

Germany has produced two masterful record labels, and no, one of them is not Deutsche Grammophon. They are ECM and Winter & Winter. Each pushes the creative envelope, producing the most compelling music being made today. Winter & Winter in particular has been creating what the label calls AudioFilms (cinema for closed eyes). The newest addition to this genre is cellist and composer Ernst Reijseger's Requiem for a Dying Planet, consisting of the film music composed for Werner Herzog's documentaries ...

Ernst Reijseger: Requiem For A Dying Planet

by Glenn Astarita
November 12, 2006

Recognized for his efforts with jazz drummer Gerry Hemingway, as well as numerous other roles as a session man and leader, Dutch cellist Ernst Reijseger is also known for his avant/classical/world music proclivities. Requiem For A Dying Planet was brought about when German filmmaker Werner Herzog approached Winter & Winter record label chief Stefan Winter to find “some very personal music for two documentaries, The Wild Blue Yonder and The White Diamonds.

Enter Reijseger with Sengalese vocalist Mola Sylla and ...