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from 'Carlos Cipa & Sophia Jani - Relive' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den192
available in January on all formats at [denovali.com/carloscipa]

CARLOS CIPA, musician and composer residing in Munich (Germany), has been teaming up with pianist and composer SOPHIA JANI to follow up his highly acclaimed full length debut “The Monarch and the Viceroy“ with a two-piece collaboration record named RELIVE.

Carlos discovered his passion for music very early in his life. At the age of 6 he began taking classical piano lessons with various renowned teachers. Ten years later after he started playing drums in different bands he became more and more interested in composition and improvisation. In the following years he made experiences in different music styles like jazz, hardcore/punk, indie rock and orchestral music. For his debut record on Denovali Records he focused on his main instrument, the piano. Currently, he is studying classical composition at the “University of Music and Performing Arts Munich”.

Since the release of his debut record, Carlos so far shared the stage with marvelous acts like A Winged Victory For The Sullen, Valgeir Sigurðsson, Nils Frahm and Ólafur Arnalds.

Sophia Jani, being in the beginning of her twenties like Carlos, has discovered her fascination for piano in a similar age. She is classically trained on piano and violin and has deepened her skills at the conservatory of music in Munich before she began studying piano at the conservatory in Bordeaux, France. Sophia left Bordeaux after one year turning away from just interpreting classical pieces to concentrate on writing her own music. Taking this crucial step, a concert of Ludovico Einaudi she attended played an important role. Recently Sophia developed an interest in filmscoring as well as experimenting with vocals. Besides classical composers like Chopin and Ravel, filmmusic especially from Bernard Hermann and Thomas Newman influenced her compositions.

The two pieces “Anouk’s Dream” and “Whatever a Sun Will Always Sing” were written for Carlo’s and Sophia’s performance at the Denovali Swingfest 2013 in Essen. The idea was to jointly compose two piano pieces for four hands, which do not only include playing the ordinary way, but also utilising rather unusual sounds from inside the piano. Carlos and Sophia used all kinds of contemporary techniques to create these sounds, like plucking and beating the strings with their fingers or different kinds of beaters, bowing them with nylon guitar strings, creating harmonics while pressing fingers down on the strings during playing, using the „aeolian harp“-technique (used for the first time by Henry Cowell in 1923) or creating beats on the cast iron frame. Throughout the two tracks nothing other than their combined fingers, the two nylon strings and three different kinds of beaters were used to create the music, the pieces can be played live without using any electronics.

During the recording process of the album RELIVE, neither of the compositions has been changed in any way. They were played exactly as in the live situation, which was a very important theme throughout this collaboration.

Carlos Cipa & Sophia Jani - Whatever A Sun Will Always Sing (Snippet)

Patrick Watson – Soon The Space Will Be Too Small

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NEW ALBUM RELEASE — “HALFWAY TO NOWHERE”
Jackson Chatman | J. Randall Studios

J. Randall Studios proudly presents Halfway to Nowhere, the latest Americana-driven album from Jackson Chatman—a stripped-back, road-worn collection built on reflection, distance, and the quiet weight of moving on.

Carried by acoustic textures, steady rhythms, and wide-open spaces, the album leans into simplicity without losing depth. These are songs about long drives with no clear destination, small towns that blur together, and the moments in between where everything starts to make a little more sense… or a little less.

Across Halfway to Nowhere, Jackson trades intensity for honesty—letting the stories breathe through dusty highways, empty diners, and fading light. It’s not about where you end up. It’s about what you carry with you when you get there.

Recorded and produced at J. Randall Studios, the album continues the evolution of Jackson’s sound—this time quieter, closer, and more personal.

You don’t always need a map.
Sometimes being halfway… is the whole story.



Jackson Chatman Apple

Borrowed Time

 Sparse piano opening, swelling strings and drums in the chorus, voice cracking on the high notes

Best I Ever Had

Hewing Cowns is the first track from Her Harbour's second full length album 'Go Gently Into the Night' out on E-Tron Records Feburary 3rd 2017

Written, played, produced by Gabrielle Giguere 
Double bass by Philippe Charbonneau 
Mellotron, percussion by Dave Draves
Vibraphone by Olivier Fairfield 
Violin, viola by Mika Posen 
Recorded by Dave Draves at Little Bullhorn (Ottawa)
Additional recording by Gabrielle Giguere (Ottawa)
Mixed by Howard Bilerman at Hotel2Tango (Montréal)
Mastered by Harris Newman at Grey Market Mastering (Montréal)

Hewing Crowns (Single)

Yumeji´s Theme (In the mood for love), Shigeru Umebayashi

One Day

16B5 is a tale about the days I have lately spent in Beirut, Lebanon. I walked everyday through multiple inputs meeting contraddictions, beauty, ruins, history, colors, tastes and smells of a country made of amazing people. It was a profound and intense experience that has left something special in my heart.

tracks
1_   16B5 (0'00")
2_   Mahatma Ghandhi Street (2'12")
3_   3 Ohm (5'34")
4_   VYVYAN (6'19")
5_   Mar Mikhael (12'52")
6_   The Flame Tree (14'33")

original music: luca longobardi

recorded, mixed and mastered in Rome

Soundscape for track #2 recorded in Mahatma Ghandhi Street, Beirut on June 28 2019

artwork: The building by luca longobardi

piano: Scholze upright (1985)

mics: Oktava MK-012 (modded, cardioid capsule)

synths and electronic gears:

_ Modular (Mutable Instruments Braids, Veils, Warps, Ripples, Clouds - ALM Busy Circuits Pamela's New Workout - Expert Sleepers Disting mk4)
_ Korg Volka Sample
_ IK Multimedia UNO Synth
_ Strymon Big Sky

Released on July 19 under Paralleli Records

all rights reserved

16B5 (Mixtape edit)

featuring Bryce Dessner (@thenational), Shara Worden (@my-brightest-diamond), Owen Pallett (@owen-pallett) & Nico Muhly

produced by Bryce Dessner

"[Call it] Schubertgaze... death speaks connects the dots between Romantic morbidity and emo rock." - Steve Smith, The New York Times

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In 2012, David Lang spent so much time racking up awards -- from Carnegie Hall's 2013-14 Debs Composer's Chair to Musical America's Composer of the Year -- that it's a wonder he was able to wrangle a project of the size and scope of death speaks. Commissioned by Carnegie Hall and Stanford Lively Arts to go on a program with his piece the little match girl passion, death speaks draws its initial inspiration from the work of Schubert -- specifically the song "Death and the Maiden."

As Lang describes it, "I went alphabetically in the German through every single Schubert song text (thank you, internet!) and compiled every instance of when the dead sent a message to the living. All told, I used excerpts from 32 songs, translating them very roughly and trimming them in the same way that I adjusted the Bach texts in the little match girl passion."

For the next step in the process, Lang sought to recruit an ensemble of successful indie composer/performers who had training in classical music, and invite them back into the fold. "I asked rock musicians Bryce Dessner (The National), Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) and Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) to join me, and we added Nico Muhly. He's not someone who left classical music, but he's known and welcome in many musical environments. All these musicians are composers and they can write all the music they need themselves, so it's a tremendous honor for me to ask them to spend some of their talent on my music."

As a companion to the five-part "death speaks," Lang also composed "depart," the second piece on the CD. Featuring four solo vocalists with Maya Beiser on multi-tracked cellos, the music offers a life-affirming meditative ambience intended to help family members deal with the death of a loved one. The piece currently plays as part of a permanent installation at a hospital morgue just outside of Paris. For more about the making of "depart," listen to this fascinating Radiolab podcast, with excerpts from an interview with David Lang.

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