The Home Recordings
Erwan Borek, piano Yamaha C3
Free improvisations inspired by Keith Jarrett, Brad Mehldau and Yaron Herman, recorded December 30, 2023 and February 23, 2024 at MVB Records 
Recording engineer: Michael Borek
Mixed and mastered at MVB Records
© 2024 MVB Records

Part VII

Live recording of my piano trio, 'Udyana', at soundSCAPE festival 2016 in Maccagno, Italy.

Performers:

Flute - Christina Raczka
Cello - Felix Fan
Piano - Thomas Rosenkranz

Programme note:

Commissioned by soundSCAPE new music festival, 'Udyana' is a reflection on a trip I made to Swat Valley, Pakistan, while it was still under Taliban Control. The true beauty of the landscape conflicted with the sense of threat; at times one sensation would overpower the other, or else both were simultaneously experienced in a strange paradox. The piece aims to capture and present some of these moods.

The musical material mostly consists broken chord-type figures and glissando-type gestures, which develop fairly freely and organically to serve the dramatic shape. The harmony is derived from spectrally analysing the piano's bottom C, including it's full decay phase, generating a pitch set which evolves and grows smaller throughout the piece.

Part VII

Erwan Borek

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