11 serpentine (live, japanese edition)

Crillon Compositions is a deeply personal orchestral suite, born from a journey that began with musical sketches and youthful piano doodles at age 19 at the famed Hôtel de Crillon , and culminating in a sweeping symphonic vision as the composer clebrated his 35th birthday at the Crillon. These newly revised and recorded works honor the enduring influence of French classical tradition—Debussy & Ravel—infused with the modern emotional landscapes of the grandeur of Rachmaninov. From brooding chamber pieces to cinematic overtures, the album embodies the conflict and beauty of legacy, identity, and time beneath the marbled hush of a Parisian palace.

Track 11 Debussy Détour Deux

~ IIKKI 001 ~

artist : danny clay
album : stills 
duration : 40.59 mn
date : 19.09.16 
edition : vinyl, limited to 500 copies + fine art book, limited to 500 copies

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pre-order : September 05th / official release : September 19th, 2016

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Danny Clay : piano, voice, harmonium, viola
Paula Karolak : viola
2015-2016, San Francisco, CA

Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork by Katrien De Blauwer
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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Links :

Danny Clay : 
https://soundcloud.com/dclaymusic
Katrien De Blauwer : 
http://www.katriendeblauwer.com
IIKKI :
http://www.iikki-books.com
https://iikki.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/iikki.books


Danny Clay - Stills (album preview)

A soundscape pieced together from pieces belonging to the Camping and Cooking Update for Caves of Qud.

Harmonica's are very bluesy, independent, and portable instruments, incredibly portable and versatile instruments that lend themselves to wayward traveling, an apt companion for a march towards the sixth day stilt.

Qud harmonicas are a bit dusty and glitchy, much like many of the more esoteric artifacts belonging to the world.

CoQ Sessions - A Tasty Dish (Caved)

Taken from the upcoming album 'Little Things' by Dalot & Sound Awakener...

'Little Things' is the first full length collaboration between Vietnamese sound artist Nhung Nguyen (Sound Awakener) and Greek sound artist Maria Papadomanolaki (Dalot). The album marks the completion of a 1.5 year-long exploration of common threads and interests between the two artists most notably the quotidian, the minute and the unnoticed often found in the fringes of big cities, busy landscapes and trajectories. It starts from ground-level interactions, field recordings of soundwalks in parks, on the streets, hydrophones in rivers and contact microphones on bridges and delicately moves to the ethereal; building up atmospheres of dreamsequences that differ from track to track. 

‘Little things’ was created by a process of exchange and extraction of draft ideas between the two artists. The creative and personal connection was deep which results in a sense of intuition and mystery throughout the album. Each track has undergone iterative transformations until its final stage, with each artist peeling off layers and sculpting textures and moods prompted by words, memories and places. While, ‘Strangers in the city’ places the listeners in an urban junction, still with their eyes closed, ‘all that fall’ contemplates on the beauty of fallen leaves, autumnal afternoons and the smell of rain. In pieces like ‘a good day to be alone’ the two artists create feather-like motions resembling invisible drizzles of emotions, solitude and dreams filling up an empty, quiet room on a sunny morning. Elsewhere in the album, as in ‘sailing’, darkness supersedes lightness in a long dive into unknown waters. 

The album creates a journey for the listener; a journey of changes between the two artists’ lives; the changes in seasons, life-events, ordinary moments  and creative processes that affected the perspectives and emotional states within which this album was produced. Rainer Maria Rilke has written that ‘the only journey is the one within’. In ‘Little Things’ the two artists offer an adventurous exploration of internal landscapes through sound and memory, the light and shadow encountered within. Nguyen and Papadomanolaki embark in a musical dialogue in an effort to create a new common dialect between them, a place where they can feel both familiar and lost. 

Music: Dalot & Sound Awakener
Mastering: James Plotkin
Design: Daniel Crossley

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com

Little Things

Strangers In The City

Dalot & Sound Awakener - Strangers In The City

"E Quindi Uscimmo A Riveder Le Stelle" is the very last piece on a six-track release by Frédéric D. Oberland, titled Labyrinth, for his very own NAHAL Recordings, a label whose ownership he shares with Paul Régimbeau (aka Mondkopf). The imprint itself takes its name from a mythological labyrinthian diagram hiding a map of the path to the new world. This is only a third release for the French label, and we can already get a taste of all the eerie things to come. And if you're already a fan of Oberland and his past works as Oiseaux-Tempête, then you're in for a treat...

Dark and noisy, the track begins as a continuation from its predecessor, “La Part Du Feu”, which built up into this distorted explosive opening, the whispers still guiding you deeper inside, as you explore its layers of pitched down percussion, harmonic pipe, and dark energy, with which this multi-instrumentalist courses your path. This downward spiral is not accidental, as Oberland meticulously paints “a vertiginous dive into George Bataille‘s ‘Inner Experience’ and the cave of Dante’s ‘Inferno'”.

"A condensed version of a sound and visual installation created in the basement of the contemporary art space Labanque in Béthune, “Labyrinth” invites us to bear witness to the loss of landmarks and to feel the immersive sense of trance […] In a continuous game of call and response between the intimate and the vast, ‘Labyrinth’ plays with the dynamics, the silence and the musical genres, kneading and pulling the form and structure of the tracks in ever-changing attempts towards transfiguring the chaos."

The album is out this Friday, October 26th, available as a digital release and a beautiful vinyl pressing. Be sure to also check out a previous catalogue offering by Mondkopf and Charbel Haber recording under a pseudonym, Good Luck In Death, with another beautiful title, They Promised Us A Bright Future, We Were Content With An Obscure Past.

Labyrinth

TRACK PREMIERE : Frédéric D. Oberland - E Quindi Uscimmo A Riveder Le Stelle

To hear this music at it's best download from iTunes or buy the CD from Amazon.

Steve Reich : Different Trains : 1 America, Before The War

Track taken from Tape Loop Orchestra's upcoming album 'In A Lonely Place'...

Tape Loop Orchestra - I Died When She Left Me

I still remember being ten or eleven years old and listening to this one in a student recital in the conservatory. Great times!

Robert Schumann: Album Für Die Jugend Op. 68 - 2. Soldier's March

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Edo de Waart, conductor
Leila Josefowicz, violin

Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D (December 2019)

Mendelssohn - String Quartet No. 4 -- III. Andante

New England Conservatory educates and trains musicians of all ages from around the world, drawing on the talent and deep reservoir of experience of our distinguished faculty. We are dedicated to inculcating the highest standards of excellence and nurturing individual artistic sensibility and creative growth. Understanding that music is one of the transcendent expressions of human civilization, NEC aspires to ensure it a central place in contemporary society. Additionally, we present over 1,000 free concerts a year in our world class performance spaces which include historic Jordan Hall.

Mendelssohn - String Quartet No. 4 -- III. Andante

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