absolutely wonderful, evocative and beautiful:)

Christine is a great pianist who fills us with free harmonies and sonorities between meditative and sumptuous. This is a great concert who shows its great capabilities.

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from the album "Uto'Pians vol.2"
#pianoday2021

Midori Hirano Keep Shining

https://stationarytravels.wordpress.com/2022/09/13/premiere-firebirds-by-snowdrops/

Firebirds

Pre-order now available: https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/upward-eyes-kindred

Handstitched* is thrilled to announce the next installment of the split-artist series, Ian Hawgood and Fields We Found feature alongside each other for an outing of outstanding musical composure and tranquility. 

Ian's music needs little introduction, with many releases and collaborations under his belt on numerous well-known labels - to say he's prolific is pretty close to the mark. Ian also curates the wonderful Home Normal label, here in the UK. "upward eyes" is seriene, slow-moving and hauntingly subtle, prolonged space fills the moments we frequently overlook and leaves time for reflection during a quiet time spent in an open space. We are honoured to have his debut EP "upward eyes" featuring on Handstitched*. 

Fields We Found has just released his outstanding album "Distance" on the lovely Seil Records, which has been on constant rotation here at Handstitched* over the past month - and the new EP "kindred" is equally as moving, graceful and bewitching. The equilibrium and expression within "kindred" is harmonious - and at the same time, quietly sonorous.

Fields We Found and Ian Hawgood are both welcomed to Handstitched* with many thanks and admiration for their respective musical works as part of the split-artist series, it's great to have them visiting Handstitched* for this special release.

Limited to 50 copies. Released on mini CD-r and sage green cassette with hand-made packaging, tape O-cards and unique designs for each CD package. [HS45/45T]. 

Released August 12.

Ian Hawgood / Fields We Found - upward eyes/kindred [HS45/T S4mpl3r]

Chimères

Comma

Fast Travel w/ Snowdrops (Between Two Oceans) - 25/10/2022

www.openlab.fm | 106.4FM in Ibiza & Formentera
Check the full tracklist on our website:
https://openlab.fm/news/spirits-commune-014-phantom-limb-with-snowdrops

France chamber duo https://soundcloud.com/snowdrops_music are next up on https://soundcloud.com/phantomlimbgroup ongoing Spirits Commune series for OpenLab. Their mix covers music from Brian Eno, Christina Vantzou and Nils Frahm as well as cuts from Snowdrops' own catalogue.
Snowdrops will shortly release their beautiful new album Missing Island on Injazero Records. An eloquent miniature symphony of strings, piano and the notoriously challenging Ondes Martenot instrument ✨

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Spirits Commune 014 - Phantom Limb [with Snowdrops]

Just yesterday I shared the news of a recently released album by Sinemis (that's Sine Buyuka) who is the founder of Injazero Records. And today I'm happy to follow up that announcement with a sequel release to the acclaimed Volutes (2020) by Snowdrops, which is a French-based chamber duo of Christine Ott and Mathieu Gabry. For this follow-up, they are joined by violist Anne-Irène Kempf, who also appears on this seventh and last piece on the album, which I am premiering for you today. Here, the piano, played by Ott, and the Rhodes in the hands of Gabry, create a soft fabric of acoustic harmonies that lift up the veil with strings and lush pads. It's a gentle track, which slowly evolves into an ever-expanding space where it disperses into the ether. "The piece develops a lot around repetitive but evolving motifs played by all three," says Gabry of music on "Mémoires Élementaires". "We are more and more distant from each other, but still connected. The viola played by Anne-irene takes the lead, and the Rhodes dissolves into a deep magma. The phrases slow down, and the reverberated space becomes larger." Perhaps the most cinematic out of the seven tracks on the album, the piece beautifully concludes this sonic painting which is a crossover genre, somewhere between modern classical, post-folk, and electro-acoustic music.

Missing Island

Mémoires élementaires

TRACK PREMIERE : Snowdrops - Mémoires Élementaires

THE CRY
https://the-cry.bandcamp.com/album/the-cry
Release date: June 15th 2023
Gizeh Records / GZH105
CD / Digital

The Cry is a new improvising trio comprised of Christine Ott (Ondes Martenot, piano), Mathieu Gabry (keyboards, effects) and Pierre-Loïc Le Bliguet (drums, percussion). This debut release was created in November 2022 and it falls between avant-garde jazz, krautrock and progressive instrumental music. This self-titled record holds multiple textures and the density of the music here offers a constantly renewed listening experience. These sounds sculptures are born in the moment and the trio play out compelling polyrhythmic movements immersed in an electro-acoustic magma.

CREDITS
All music recorded live by The Cry on November 29th 2022.
Christine Ott - Korg MS20 (1) Ondes Martenot & fx (3,5,6,7) & Piano (1,4) // Mathieu Gabry - Roland Juno-6 & fx (1,3,4,5,7) Clavia Nord Stage (1,3,4,5) & Piano (2,6) // Pierre-Loic Le Bliguet- Drums & Percussions
 
Recorded by Eric Gauthier-Lafaye at Downtown Studios, Strasbourg. Mixed by Mathieu Gabry between December 2022 and March 2023. Mastered by Sohlberg at Serpentine Studio. Artwork by Dimitri Laboussée, resulting from research and works by students in Gilles Gabry’s class, 1998. Inside photos, portraits during the recording session by Noé Maetz
 
TRACKLISTING
1 — Fire of Love
2 — In My Mind
3 — Chorus Alpha
4 — Mindset
5 — Evergreen
6 — Seven Days
7 — Ouverture Coda

Fire Of Love

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artist : Tomas Knoflicek
 album : Serendipity
duration : 41.09 mn
 date : August 31th, 2023

edition :
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- cd : limited to 200 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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Music by Tomáš Knoflíček
Guests: Emiko – vocal (2, 3), Hanabi – vocal (2, 5, 6)
Lyrics by Hanabi
Recorded in Ostrava, Cheb and Les Království

Mastered by Ondřej Ježek@jaMor
Artwork by Mickael Zermati
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
Thanks to Ondřej Lasák, Tomáš Slunský, Ondřej Ježek, Martin Režný and Haco

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Serendipity

Tomas Knoflicek - Otranto

Tobira

Roji

from 'ÉCLATS (PIANO WORKS)' - out on 03.11.2023 - GIZEH RECORDS
CD / Digital / Streaming : https://christineott.bandcamp.com/album/eclats-piano-works
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Two years after Time to Die, French composer Christine Ott returns to Gizeh Records with her fifth album, Éclats (Piano Works), a collection of twelve pieces for solo piano, twelve impressionistic miniatures, instrumental and cinematic fractals celebrating the beauty of life.
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Éclats (Piano Works) is a kind of mirror image to Chimères (for Ondes Martenot) (2020, Nahal Recordings), which showcased her other favourite instrument, and for which Christine Ott is particularly renowned - as she is through her past collaborations with Yann Tiersen, Tindersticks, and this year with Chilly Gonzales. But here, there's no vintage electronics: the musician unfurls acoustic landscapes in black and white, alone at the piano, behind a Steinway, a Fazioli or her father's old Prestel. The album opens with Pluie d'arbres, a powerful yet delicate allegory of deforestation. This duality runs through the album, whose energy is sometimes melancholy, sometimes hopeful, but always generous and full of empathy.
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Sometimes nourished by revealing improvised gestures and crystallised during live performances, these new pieces by Christine Ott also make the link with various projects by the artist, both on stage and in film. Die Jagd nach dem Glück (The Pursuit of Happiness) is an extract from her original composition for Lotte, mon amour, a film-concert created in 2014 based on 4 short films by Lotte Reiniger, a German director from the first half of the 20th century. Lotte Reiniger was a true pioneer of animated film, and her films are still incredibly modern and human. Originally composed for piano, Martenot ondes and viola, this highly romantic piece is presented here in its simplest orchestration. Vulcano also foreshadows another film-concert work by Christine Ott, to come in 2024, for Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran. Set on a storm-swept island off the coast of Ireland, the film depicts the daily life of a fishing family in the 1930s. In a film-concert with an ambitious, physical and immersive score, the musician pays tribute to the courage of these inhabitants, united by a strong sense of solidarity, in constant battle with the elements.
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Éclats (Piano Works) presents works recorded over a long period of time; a clear homage to Hitchcock, the writing of Vertigo undoubtedly has its origins in the composer's youth. Some pieces, such as Étreintes and Amours étoilés, were recorded during the sessions for Only Silence Remains (2016), and Christine has regularly performed Golden Valley on stage since its creation in 2018 - whether as solo piano or rearranged in groups as part of her parallel projects (Snowdrops, Theodore Wild Ride...). Other compositions, such as Clouds of Dreams, are much more recent. So it's a real gift to finally discover on record the variety and richness of these twelve original compositions, which have long remained in the shadows.
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And to bring these melodic bursts to life, Christine Ott called on the services of visual artist Léa Barbazanges, who creates sculptures and installations using assemblages of plant, mineral and animal materials. The works that adorn the album cover come from her Optiques series; 12 photographs of crystals seen through a lens, like a poetic prism that brings us closer to living things, their textures and ramifications, as obvious as they are complex, and that give a formidable visual echo to the 12 compositions on the album.
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Out November 3rd on CD and digital. Pre-orders are now open.

Pluie d'arbres

From 'SINGING STONES (vol. 1)' - out on 25.10.2024 
INFOS / PRE-ORDER : https://snowdrops.bandcamp.com
‪@Gizeh | GZH117 | CD & Digital
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CROSSING
‪@christine-ott : Ondes Martenot, Glockenspiel
Mathieu Gabry : Piano, Synths
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« 10 years after its creation, Snowdrops returns to Gizeh Records with its 4th album, Singing Stones (volume 1), the first in a series of compositions celebrating slow time and long time, somewhere between post-classical, progressive chamber music and deep listening. In it, the collective founded by Christine Ott and Mathieu Gabry develop their alchemy of analogue and acoustic timbres in a style that is at times interior, intense, narrative or dreamy, and sometimes all at once. 
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Singing Stones is built around two long pieces, Crossing and Arctic Passage, which the duo have performed regularly on stage since 2016, notably at the Opéra Underground in Lyon, Silent Green in Berlin and this year at Autres Mesures Festival in Rennes. In Crossing, Snowdrops deploys its full progressive palette; 20 minutes of a veritable journey from ambient jazz to baroque electronics, to a polyrhythmic, repetitive and mystical coda, a contemporary blend of piano and ondes Martenot. By revealing even more textures, Arctic Passage can be seen as a nocturnal crossing among the ice, decomposing icebergs; an active listening to the natural vestiges of our world, and all that could disappear. »
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« Singing Stones » Artwork by ‪Julie Calbert, based on her Hyperion Series - http://www.juliecalbert.be
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Crossing

Full stream of Snowdrops' "Arctic Passage," taken from Singing Stones (Volume 1) LP on Gizeh Records, out on October 25.

Pre-order: https://snowdrops.bandcamp.com/album/singing-stones-volume-1
More: www.orbmag.com/music

@gizeh
@snowdrops_music

Singing Stones (Volume 1)

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Premiere: Snowdrops - Arctic Passage

Excerpt from #Concertzender Live program broadcasted on september 2018 : https://www.concertzender.nl
Recorded April 1st 2018 in Utrecht, @ TivoliVredenburg
Live event for Piano Day, curated by Fluister
http://www.fluister.org
Tracklist : 
00:00 Horizons fauves
06:03 No memories
10:03 Solitude Nomade
16:24 Raintrain

Christine Ott - Piano Day - Live in Utrecht

Emilía /Pollinations [RTE 0010] 


Pollinations is a mini -Album recorded last year at home, as Live Session & rehearsal; included Eyoko´s Remix of Oil Bread! ( from Down to the Sadness River Album)



Photography & Design by Meneh Peh 
Mastered at Rottenman Studios

Pollinations

Emilía / Pollinations - Oil Bread [Eyoko Rmx]

Tiago Morais Morgado  As A Listener (Nachtstuck Records, Sermons Of The Horizon, XS Records PT Netlabel, Quantum Studios), as a listener

Sylvie Keller, PR for @christine-ott & related projects; @snowdrops_music @theodorewildride, "Only Silence Remains" (@gizeh), "Chimères (pour Ondes Martenot)" (@nahalrecordings), Nanook of the north... raintrainpress@gmail.com

Christine Ott - Piano Day - Live in Utrecht

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