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Instrument: Guitar, electric
Yelena Eckemoff: Scenes From the Dark Ages
by Tyran Grillo
Yelena Eckemoff has long composed as though mapping weather rather than terrain, tracing pressure systems of mood and atmosphere while leaving strict pulse to others. Her music often moves with purpose yet refuses the easy certainties of groove, circling rhythm instead of kneeling before it. This has never felt like abstinence or austerity. It feels more like rhetoric. She addresses rhythm, engages with it, but rarely submits for the mere sake of doing so. That is why “Pilgrims," the opening ...
Continue ReadingYelena Eckemoff: Romance of the Moon
by Neri Pollastri
Yelena Eckemoff, prolifica e camaleontica compositrice russa da anni residente negli U.S.A., è usa mutare con frequenza collaboratori, adattando le proprie composizioni al loro stile e alla loro cultura. Questo suo ultimo album, intitolato Romance of the Moon, sebbene sia ispirato alla poesia di Federico Garcia Lorca, è di fatto un lavoro “italiano," essendo realizzato nel nostro Paese (in particolare, registrato a nel giugno del 2023 a Mantova e poi missato a Udine negli studi Artesuono di Stefano Amerio) assieme ...
Continue ReadingYelena Eckemoff: Romance of the Moon
by Doug Collette
Comparable to the rare and valuable likes of a first edition book worth treasuring, Yelena Eckemoff's Romance of the Moon is no small achievement. The keyboardist/composer creates music as vivid as the images in her own paintings that adorn the inside and out of the CD package, all of which graphics (as well as those in the enclosed booklet) appear in a glossy finish. And that corresponds to the polish of the production of a baker's dozen compositions ...
Continue ReadingYelena Eckemoff: Romance of the Moon
by Tyran Grillo
With Romance of the Moon, Yelena Eckemoff descends further into the symbolic night, carrying Federico García Lorca's poetry as a living grammar in her heart. This suite of 13 compositions does not illustrate the poems so much as converse with them, answering their obsessions with music that listens as intently as it speaks. Lorca's moons, bells, animals, and silences find a second life here, translated into pulse and pause. Eckemoff assembles a band whose collective intelligence feels instinctive ...
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