David Russel

“Scordatura” is the technic, when the musician changes the standard or traditional tuning of an instrument. It has a great tradition on plucked stringed instruments. Altering a tuning changes the tension of the strings and the soundboard, which results a different sound character of the guitar. The player has the freedom to lower the tuning for more depth and warmth in the sound sacrificing some volume, to tune higher in order to achieve more brightness, brilliance and volume or to tune in both direction to completely mix up and change the sound. In most cases not only the sound will be different, but the fingerings and grips on the fretboard as well, because the intervals between the strings are modified, which can be disturbing and a great challenge for the musician.

David Sylvian and Russell Mills - Ember Glance (The Permanence of Memory) (1991) {Virgin, DSRM 1}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 161 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 85 Mb
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© 1991 Venture / Virgin Records | DSRM 1
Electronic / Abstract / Ambient

Music tracks to accompany an installation of sculpture, sound and light by David Sylvian and Russel Mills, from 29 September to 12 October 1990, staged at the Temporary Museum on Tokyo Bay, Shinagawa. Box complete with 96 page book which chronicles the entire installation as well as biographical history of both artists.

Aurio Corrá: "I started my piano studies at the age of four. At eighteen years of age I was educated in classical music at the Sao Paulo Conservatory. Later, I dedicated my atttention to the study of Jazz and contemporary music. I studied the viola and later I moved on to the guitar. In 2001 I started to study the soprano saxophone, influenced by the sound of Paul Winter, and with Ivan Meyer as my teacher, continuing until 2003. From here I started to teach myself how to play woodwind instruments. I released my first New Age piece of music in 1988 called 'Aura', with the participation of the harpist María Tereza Briamonte…