Encounter 2019

More than anything else, The Adornment of Time, a live encounter between drummer/percussionist Tyshawn Sorey and pianist Marilyn Crispell from the Kitchen in 2018, is among the most aptly titled improvised recordings in many years. According to Sorey, the music from Greenwich Village on this October evening "…represents the culmination of the several journeys embarked upon by Marilyn and me over the past five years of collaborative opportunities." Besides the instruments, audience, and the performance space, what exists between and around these two is time: Forever passing, ever present, and always falling forward into the next moment.

The first encounter between Chinese composer Tan Dun and Norwegian violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing took place in 2010 during the Shanghai World Expo, when Hemsing premièred Tan’s Love Concerto. Both have strong roots in the traditional music of their native countries, and out of this meeting between traditions a fruitful collaboration has developed which also involves an investigation of the music that happens here and now. In Hemsing's words, the encounter ‘opened up my musical horizons’ and she has since performed a number of the composer's works involving the violin. Fire Ritual, the concerto that lends its name to the present album, was composed with Hemsing in mind.

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Hymnody meets Raschèr Choral music meets the saxophone: a very special encounter Saxophone sound and choral music meet for a very special encounter on this album. The Stuttgarter Hymnus-Chorknaben join forces with the renowned Raschèr Saxophone Quartet to perform choral masterpieces ranging from the Baroque to the twenty-first century. The projects centrepiece, Alle Flüsse fließen ins Meer, doch wird das Meer nicht voll, was written by the composer and pianist Christoph Grund and is based on an Old Testament text. The commissioned work is scored for large boys choir, saxophone quartet, and percussion. Moreover, the album includes joint performances of Johann Sebastian Bachs well-known motet Lobet den Herrn as well as Claudio Monteverdis magnificent Laetatus sum.

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Traversing wistfully melodic ambient to crushing doom noise, Bryan Senti’s soundtrack for ‘American Dreamer’ forms a memorable introduction to his work, which exists in the shadows shared by Jóhann Jóhannsson’s ‘Mandy’ and classic Carpenter scores “Senti’s brilliant, powerful score to Derrick Borte’s newest picture American Dreamer, starring Jim Gaffigan. The movie - Borte’s fifth picture - is a dark and intense study of desperation and of the failings of American socio-political systems. It is masterfully led by Gaffigan, playing a ride-share driver let down by his own mistakes, trapped in an economic system with no safety net. His pursuit of a quick and easy solution to deepening financial troubles sees the movie gently, gradually shift in mood, from nuanced and sympathetic to tense and unsettling. Senti’s eloquent soundtrack matches its pace and architecture, conjuring breathtaking beauty, heartbreaking sadness and nailbiting tautness.