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Running Home To Sing

All Downhill From Here

The Beginning (David Sylvian Remix)

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from 'III' [CD|2xLP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den246
available in November on all formats at [http://denovali.com/bersarinquartett]

Melancholia. Longing. It is difficult to speak about these moods or states of the mind without invoking stereotypes. In ancient medicine, melancholia was considered to be one of the four temperaments, matching the four humours. In fact, melancholia, meaning "black bile" in Ancient Greek, was thought to be caused by an excess of this very body substance. By contrast, in more modern interpretations, literates and Freudians relate many variations of longing to the one primordial longing, the desire to return to one's mother's womb. In this context, the womb is considered to be the place of absolute comfort and cosiness, of total bliss. Thus it should not be surprising that to many of us melancholia is a mood which we like to invoke and to maintain, we like to envelop ourselves in it like in a warm blanket. Our brain and our sensory systems appear to be made for perceiving and emotionally responding to music in a very immediate fashion. Consequently music is the obvious drug for all of us melancholia-addicts. However, there is a thin line between melancholia and sadness, and music which is meant to be melancholic too often crosses this line by far. Only very few artists succeed in avoiding this crossing, and in creating music which is melancholia in its most pure form. It is safe to say that BERSARIN QUARTETT - the electronic music project of Thomas Bücker - is one of them.

After his successfull selftitled debut in 2008 and the sophomore "II" in 2012 - album of the month in many magazines and in numerous "Best of the year" lists - Bücker returns with his third BERSARIN QUARTETT album "III", due for release 6.11.2015 on Denovali Records. Much like his two predecessors, III is a pure paradox. It is the creation of a perfectionist, an adamant control freak. Every element, be it a note, an ambience layer, a string arrangement, a field recording, a baseline, a vocal (Clara Hill on Track 11) or a beat, is meticulously modified and then assigned its place in Bücker's vast but still minimalistic arrangements. Thus, superficially Bücker's pieces seem to radiate a certain mechanical bleakness. However, there is a unique reduced warmth and liveliness emerging from these stainless compositions and transcending them. This transcendence is precisely the point where Bücker ironically looses control over his creations. In contrast to the first two BERSARIN QUARTETT albums, III offers a few darker shades and succeeds even further in narrowing down the arrangements to the absolute essentials without loosing the characteristic grandeur of Bücker's sound. Whereas BERSARIN QUARTETT's debut was merely a description of melancholia in its most pure form, III maybe even goes as far a defining what melancholia really is. It is the only emotion in the vast spectrum of human states of mind which one can bear forever. 

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A collection of 20 singles, b-sides, cooperations and guest appearances by the great singer/songwriter/composer David Sylvian. If you like this, buy his records! Most of them are great, and especially 'Brilliant Trees', 'Secrets Of The Beehive' and 'Blemish' are fantastic.

1. To A Reason (Hector Zazou) 2. Bamboo Houses (w/Riuichi Sakamoto) 3. Maya (Alesini & Andreoni) 4. A Certain Slant Of Light 5. The World Is Everything 6. Promise 7. How Safe Is Deep? (Russell Mills) 8. Pop Song 9. The Golden Way (Alesini & Andreoni) 10. Five Lines (w/Dai Fujikura) 11. Forbidden Colours (w/Riuichi Sakamoto) 12. Messenger (Blonde Redhead) 13. The Song Which Is The Key To Perfection 14. Somewhere 15. Rooms Of Sixteen Shimmers (Russell Mills) 16. Exit/Delete (Takagi Masakatsu) 17. Do You Know Me Now? 18. Come Morning (Alesini & Andreoni) 19. Bamboo Music (w/Riuichi Sakamoto) 20. Earthbound (Starblind) (w/Robert Fripp)

Do You Know Me Now? (Rare Songs)

Do You Know Me Now? - rare recordings by David Sylvian

Shida Shahabi is a Swedish-Iranian pianist / composer, currently based in Stockholm. The beautiful, intimate and homespun piano of ‘Homes’ marks Shida’s debut release and the fourth in a row of new albums by female-fronted artists released on 130701 this year.

The entirety of the album was recorded at various home locations. During the writing process, Shida was renting a one bedroom appartment which she used as a studio space, before moving to a new house in the midst of the recording. So the music was actually written in one home studio and recorded in two different living rooms, hence the title, ‘Homes’. A sense of this homeliness and unpressured ease is clearly audible across the album – something utterly natural and unforced. There are no whistles and bells attached here, no big name guest performers or hired studio hands. Absolutely beautifully played and composed, it is a deeply charming record that exudes a confident warmth and an emotional depth and honesty in every note. Its production eschews the prioritising of cleanliness, with a warm, fuzzy noise floor audible from the very first track immediately immersing the listener into this sublime yet imperfect reality – as though the whole existed beneath a layer of dust. It posits comfort over obsessive cleanliness. Living comfortably with traces of wear and decay, the recording makes audible intimate acoustic details and imperfections – creaking and hissing; tiny distortions; the pressure exerted by fingers and feet against the piano’s pedals and keys.

Homes

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Musical Project of Geordie Little, Sam Rogers. Scott Van Manen and Jian Kellett Liew.

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Melanie Velarde - Another Para

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The Beginning (David Sylvian Remix)

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