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Echo & Narcissus - WIP (2.0)

www.1631recordings.bandcamp.com
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Tim Linghaus -  We Will Never Come Back Here Again (Lament)

- 2017 -
Practicing patience and reflecting on seemingly unrelated happenings will lead to a rich understanding of how we are where we are. Self-progress does not have our (infinite) qualities compartmentalized into separate trajectories. It is instead a whirlwind of all components, ebbing and flowing wisdom from one to another. We are eventually lead to new bridges of insight and filled with more dynamism because of it... trust the disjunct evolution.

Premiered January 30, 2018 at the Winnipeg New Music Festival
Performed by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Julian Pellicano

Photo from exhibition " monodramatic " (2014) by Daisuke Takakura

Disjunction

Lubomyr Melnyk shares a new piece Barcarolle, taken from his forthcoming new album Fallen Trees out on December 7th, coinciding with his 70th birthday.

Originally composed for the National Ballet of Canada production of The Dreamers Ever Leave You, a modern ballet piece from the Choreographer Robert Binet, Barcarolle glides along like its traditional meaning; that of a folk song sung by Venetian gondoliers on the water.

Lubomyr explains; "It offers a sort of tree ballet atmosphere, reminding us that trees move in different dimensions to us. So this music is a reminder of trees and how happy they are in their dancing, albeit they dance heavily and with a certain sombreness. It is a sad Barcarolle since the tree is reminiscing. Barcarolle is not really a dance, but a song of water, waves and boats. A barge on the waves of time. The title is of course from the classical music domain and this piece, of all the works in the album, is the most classical in character. People must never forget the beautiful and wonderful world of Classical Music."

Cascades of notes, canyons and rivers of sound: there’s something about Lubomyr Melnyk's music that channels the natural world at its most awe-inspiring. In Fallen Trees the connection with the environment continues, taking its cue from a long rail journey Melnyk made through Europe. Glancing out of the window as the train passed through a dark forest, he was struck by the sight of trees that had recently been felled. “They were glorious,” he says. “Even though they’d been killed, they weren’t dead. There was something sorrowful there, but also hopeful.” That sense of sadness touched by optimism infuses the album, too: rarely has Melnyk made music so shot through with melancholy and regret, but which sounds so rapt, even radiant.

The five-part, 20-minute Fallen Trees is one of the most ambitious and demanding pieces he has ever created. Though the music is – as ever – Melnyk’s own, Fallen Trees once again features a number of Erased Tapes artists. Japanese vocal artist Hatis Noit, whose first EP Illogical Dance came out to much acclaim earlier this year, lends ethereal vocals, floating mysteriously above the surface of Melnyk’s eddying piano lines before diving far beneath. Other contributors include Berlin-based cellist Anne Müller, a sometime collaborator with Nils Frahm, and American singer David Allred, the most recent addition to the label family. 

Despite the autumnal hint in its title, there’s little suggestion of Melnyk slowing down. Having received critical acclaim and co-headlining the prestigious Royal Festival Hall as part of the Erased Tapes 10th anniversary celebrations, after many years his audience is now both global and growing. The composer is finally gaining a momentum in his career that matches the vibrant, highly active energy of his playing.

Erased Tapes presents Lubomyr's 70th birthday concert at London's EartH on January 24, with very special guests Peter Broderick and Hatis Noit, plus support from Anne Muller.

Pre-order Fallen Trees LP/CD/DL: https://www.erasedtapes.com/release/eratp116-lubomyr-melnyk-fallen-trees

Fallen Trees

Barcarolle

Lubomyr Melnyk - Barcarolle

In 2017, Travel Manitoba took artist, Kal Barteski, and I to Calgary to represent the prairie province by performing at a travel conference for 1800 people. After the hour's performance, Dene Sinclair of Indigenous Tourism Canada pulled me aside to talk about a specific piece that was creeping and eerie which moved her. Dene suggested that I should collaborate with a throat singer for it. The piece was Ghosting. And that was a great idea. 

Nikki Komaksiutiksak is an Inuit woman from Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut. She is now a mother of five and currently works for the Department of Manitoba Justice. 

Though Winnipeg is now her home, Nikki has found the strength to preserve her “Inukness” living in the southern part of Canada. Nikki is an active member with the Inuit community in Winnipeg, and uses her knowledge and understanding of the south to assist other Inuit moving to the big city. Nikki is an inspiration to the young and old everywhere, and truly demonstrates a passion for her cultural identity. 

and she rips it vocally. 

While you can download this without charge on Bandcamp, any money donated from this collaboration will go towards Bear Clan Patrol Inc, an Indigenous Community Patrol that provide restoration and maintenance of harmony within the community. 

www.bearclanpatrolinc.com

Ghosting featuring Nikki Komatsiutiksak

Eamon Sheil - Alto Saxophone
Artur Kivilaht - Guitar
Kevin Waters - Drums

Cheryl

poorly installed drywall

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Lyrics:

Hold myself to a chord,
waiting for the day that you come back to me,
you know that I don’t give a fuck about appearances,
been hearing things about you.

You’ve been dreamin’ come with me I’ll help you wake up,
and you know that it’s true, your feeling
if you want to get it along.

(It’s true)

Move in step across the floor,
waiting here to say that you can’t handle me,
you know I never understood why you would say these things,
I don’t feel the same without you.

You’ve been dreamin’ come with me I’ll help you wake up,
and you know that it’s true, your feeling
if you want to get it along.

(It’s true)

You’ve been dreamin’ come with me I’ll help you wake up,
and you know that it’s true, your feeling
if you want to get it along.

(It’s true)

after hours

dreamin'

link to visualizer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2UQ6B6wJrQ

performed by:

Caroline Bucher
Logan Cashin
Wyatt King
Aaron Witzke

forme - percussion quartet for bowed vibraphone

Wintery

Scott Joplin's hauntingly beautiful ragtime classic, arranged by me for marimba and vibraphone.

Scott Joplin - Solace, A Mexican Serenade (for marimba and vibes)

Composer | Musician | Producer 
Contemporary classical to alt pop
EP Indigo Sky out now: https://kiaranathaniel.bandcamp.com/album/indigo-sky

forme - percussion quartet for bowed vibraphone

KIARA

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