Kiasmos / “II”

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□ Kiasmos / “II”


□ Kiasmos / “Burst”

アイスランドの現代音楽家Ólafur ArnaldsとJanus RasmussenによるIDMプロジェクト。ポストクラシックな弦楽、環境音や伝統民族器楽をミックスしたインテリジェンス・テクノ。冷たく透明なアトモスフィアと、質感豊かな精緻で鋭角的なビートアーキテクチャが涼を呼ぶ



□ Kiasmos / “Bound”



□ Kiasmos / “Sailed”

>> https://kiasmos.is/

>> tracklisting.

01. Grown

02. Burst

03. Sailed

04. Laced

05. Bound

06. Sworn

07. Spun

08. Flown

09. Told

10. Dazed

11. Squared

Release Date: 2024/07/05
Label: Erased Tape
Cat.No.: ERATP168

All songs written and performed by Ólafur Arnalds & Janus Rasmussen

String quartet & orchestral arrangements by Ólafur Arnalds
Produced by Ólafur Arnalds & Janus Rasmussen
Recorded at Studio Segl, E7, Hof Culture House
Recording Engineers: Ólafur Arnalds, Janus Rasmussen, Hafsteinn Þráinsson

Ólafur Arnalds, piano, synthesizers & electronics
Janus Rasmussen, synthesizers & electronics

String quartet:
Viktor Orri Árnason, violin (All tracks except 3)
Sigrún Harðardóttir, violin (All tracks except 3)
Ásta Kristín Pjetursdóttir, viola (Tracks 2,5,7,8,10)
Unnur Jónsdóttir, cello (Tracks 2,3,5,7,8,10)
Karl Pestka, viola (Tracks 1,4,9,11)
Sigurgeir Agnarsson, cello (Tracks 1,4,9,11)

SinfoniaNord: (Tracks 2,5,6,9)
1st violin: Guðbjartur Hákonarson, Geirþrúður Ása Guðjónsdóttir, Zbigniew Dubik, Sigurlaug Eðvaldsdóttir, Ólöf Þorvarðardóttir
2nd violin: Margrét Þorsteinsdóttir, Kristján Matthíasson, Karl James Pestka, Íris Dögg Gísladóttir, Maricn Lazarz
Viola: Þórunn Ósk Marinósdóttir, Eyjólfur Bjarni Alfreðsson, Ásta Kristín Pjétursdóttir
Cello: Sigurgeir Agnarsson, Bryndís Halla Gylfadóttir, Júlía Mogensen, Ásdís Arnardóttir

Mixing Engineer: Styrmir Hauksson
Mastered by Zino Mikorey
Lacquer cut by Andreas Kauffelt at Schnittstelle, Berlin
Creative Director: Peadar Ó Goill
Artwork and Design by Studio Torsten Posselt

Our friend and director Neels Castillon made an incredible video for Sailed. Shot in the midst of the Icelandic highlands in the dead of winter. Watch it here: https://t.co/C1diGTyKCq Huge thanks to Neels, the cast, Motion Palace, Ben and Siggi and the team that worked on this! pic.twitter.com/NqFcoNssb8

— Kiasmos (@kiasmos_) June 12, 2024

Eric La Casa / "S'ombre"

□ Eric La Casa / “the Stones of the Threshold”

>> https://groundfault.bandcamp.com/album/the-stones-of-the-threshold


□ Eric La Casa / "S'ombre"

フィールド・レコーディングを『音響芸術』の域まで昇華したマスターピース。川底を打つ石と石との衝突音が、やがて粒度を高めながら一点へと急速に爆縮していく。背筋の凍り付くようなダイナミズムを纏ったソニック・アート

Alex Harding & Lucian Ban / “Blutopia”

□ Alex Harding & Lucian Ban / “Marrakesh”

Alex Harding & Lucian Ban BLUTOPIA
Sunnyside Records, May 17, 2024

Alex Harding - baritone saxophone
Lucian Ban - piano & Rhodes
Mat Maneri - viola & effects
Bob Stewart - tuba
Brandon Lewis - drums

デトロイトのサックス奏者と、ルーマニア出身のピアニストの出会いによるアフロ・フューチャージャズ。チューバ演奏とマネリによる電子効果が、Franck Bedrossianにも似た前衛的な響きを生み出している

For their second album for Sunnyside baritone saxophonist
Alex Harding & Transylvanian expat pianist Lucian Ban highlight their long and fruitful partnership with a singular ensemble propelled by Bob Stewart, one of the most heralded improvising tuba players in jazz and featuring drummer Brandon Lewis and iconoclast master violist Mat Maneri.

Jóhann Jóhannsson / “A Prayer to the Dynamo”

□ Jóhann Jóhannsson / “A Prayer to the Dynamo”


□ Jóhann Jóhannsson / “A Prayer to the Dynamo” (Pt. 3) Bjarnason, ICELAND Symphony Orcchestra

晩年のヨハンソンが完成させた『技術史三部作』完結編。Ellidaar水力発電所の録音素材を用いた、天上へと昇り詰めるような、かつてない重厚なシンフォニー。『Orphée』に一部が翻案されている。ビャルナソン指揮、アイスランド交響楽団による初音源化

Dolby AtmosやPure Audio (MU-SO QB)で聴くと、水力発電所の環境音と、オーケストラの演奏部分がしっかり分離されて空間的な広がりを感じる。旋律が発電装置のどこを準えているのかもより明確になる


Release Date: 15/09/2023
Producer, Studio Personnel, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, Recording Engineer: Christopher Tarnow
Producer, Associated Performer, Programming: Paul Corley
Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Daníel Bjarnason
Studio Personnel, Asst. Recording Engineer: Piotr Furmanczyk
Composer: Jóhann Jóhannsson

℗ 2023 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin



□ Jóhann Jóhannsson / “Fragment II”

“A Prayer to the Dynamo”から”Orphée”に翻案された『断章』。永遠を感じさせる上昇音階に、重層的なアトモスフィアが加えられている。”Orphée”はヨハンソンが生前に発表した事実上最期の「アーティストアルバム」であることも感慨がある

2024 June Mix.

□ 2024 June Mix. - chill, post-classical, ambient

6月、初夏の空気を感じるこの季節に、最近よく聴いている楽曲を新旧織り交ぜてプレイリストを作りました。Xやblogで紹介したものを中心に構成しています


□ Apple Music版



□ Youtube版


Tracklisting:

01. Aaron Hibell / “i feel lost”
02. Jóhann Jóhannsson / “Fragment II”
03. Jóhann Jóhannsson / “A Prayer to the Dynamo (Pt.3)”
04. Aerian / “Cyclical”
05. Meredith Monk / “Madwoman’s Vision”
06. Pēteris Vasks / “Dona nobis pacem”
07. Steve Reich / “Proverb”
08. Brad Mehldau / “Après Fauré: Nocturne No. 4 in E-Flat Major, Op. 36”
09. Max Richter / “Movement, Before All Flowers”
10. David Binney & Hammock / “On the Evening Road to You (Hammock Remix)”

Book of Days

□ Meredith Monk / “Book of Days: Madwoman's Vision”

>> https://youtu.be/RIh4A6nyquY?si=vlNKMC27PfQfhreq

Book of Days (1988, 85 minutes)
Conceived and Directed by Meredith Monk
Cinematography by Jerry Pantzer
Art Direction and Costume Design by Yoshio Yabara
Music by Meredith Monk
Produced by Catherine Tatge and Dominique Lasseur

稀代のヴォイス・パフォーマー、メレディス・モンク自らが製作した声楽映画『Book of Days』。未来視によって現代を垣間見る中世の少女を軸に、反復する事象の『無時間性』を浮き彫りにする

東欧の山間民族風のチャントと、キリスト教会合唱をミックスしたような響きだけれど、この曲は後半につれて次第に狂気の色を帯びていき、啜り泣きとも嘆き声ともつかないモンクの歌唱に圧倒される


Book of Days is a film about time, originally drawing parallels between the Middle Ages, a time of war, plague and fear of the Apocalypse, with modern times of racial and religious conflict, the AIDS epidemic, and fear of nuclear annihilation. In light of the current pandemic, the cyclical nature of such phenomena has made itself known once more. While the film provides no answers, it nevertheless is a tribute to vision and the imagination, and a poetic incantation of that which connects us. Book of Days previously aired on PBS, was shown at the New York Film Festival and was selected for the Whitney Biennial

Brad Mehldau / “Après Fauré“

□ Brad Mehldau / “Après Fauré

>> https://www.bradmehldaumusic.com/apres-faure


□ Brad Mehldau / “Après Fauré: Nocturne No. 4 in E-Flat Major, Op. 36”
メルドーが『After Bach: II』に続きGabriel Fauréを翻案した『After Fauré』。大胆な編曲が目立つAfter Bachと対照に、黒鍵を感じるフォーレの繊細な夜想曲に豊穣な極みを効かせる現代ピアノ曲へ昇華


□ Brad Mehldau / “Après Fauré: Caprice”


Après Fauré

Gabriel Fauré:
1. Nocturne No. 13 in B Minor, Op. 119 (1921)
2. Nocturne No. 4 in E Major, Op. 36 (c. 1884)
3. Nocturne No. 12 in E Minor, Op. 107 (1915)

Brad Mehldau:
4. Prelude
5. Caprice
6. Nocturne
7. Vision

Gabriel Fauré:
8. Nocturne No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 74 (1898)
9. Extract from Piano Quartet No. 2, Opus 45 (c. 1887): III. Adagio non troppo

Piano: Brad Mehldau
Unknown: Tom Lazarus
Unknown: Tom Lazarus
Unknown: Tom Lazarus
Composer: Gabriel Fauré

Brad Mehldau / "After Bach II"

□ Brad Mehldau / "After Bach II"


□ Brad Mehldau / “Between Bach | Fugue No. 20 in A Minor”

おそらく今世紀ジャズシーンにおける最重要作品の一つ、メルドーの”After Bach”続編。バッハ『平均律クラヴィーア』に加え『ゴルトベルク変奏曲』を軸に、独自の感性と先鋭的な解釈で詩情を奏でる

The Bach album comprises four preludes and one fugue from the Well-Tempered Clavier, as well as the Allemande from the fourth Partita, interspersed with seven compositions or improvisations by Mehldau inspired by the complementary works of Bach—including Mehldau’s Variations on Bach’s Goldberg Theme.


01. Prelude to Prelude
02. Prelude No. 9 in E Major from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 854
03. Prelude No. 6 in D Minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, BWV 851
04. After Bach: Toccata
05. Partita for Keyboard No. 4 in D Major, BWV 828: II. Allemande
06. After Bach: Cavatina
07. Prelude No. 20 in A Minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, BWV 865
08. Between Bach
09. Fugue No. 20 in A Minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, BWV 865
10. Intermezzo

Variations on Bach’s Goldberg Theme:
11. Aria-like
12. Variation I, Minor 5/8 a
13. Variation II, Minor 5/8 b
14. Variation III, Major 7/4
15. Variation IV, Breakbeat
16. Variation V, Jazz
17. Variation VI, Finale
18. Prelude No. 7 in E-Flat Major from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, BWV 852
19. Postlude

Release Date: 10/05/2024
Label: Nonesuch
Brad Mehldau, piano
Recorded April 18-20, 2017 and June 21, 2023 at Mechanics Hall, Worcester, MA
Engineered, mixed, and mastered by Tom Lazarus
Additional mixing by Brian Montgomery
Piano technician: Barbara Renner
Production coordinator: Tom Korkidis

>> https://www.bradmehldaumusic.com/



After Bach: Cavatina


Prelude No. 7 in E-Flat Major from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, BWV 852

Oratorio 5 ANGELS.

□ Pavel Karmanov - Oratorio 5 ANGELS - Latvian Radio Choir - Sinfonietta Riga

>> https://youtu.be/NP18seGjsD8?si=9gvP0yaOWS1YcRik&t=874

モスクワの現代音楽家、Pavel Karmanovのロシア正教会委嘱曲『五天使のためのオラトリオ(聖譚曲)』。この四半世紀において最も美しい混声合唱曲であり、合唱大国ラトビアでの公演は奇蹟



Pavel Karmanov - Oratorio 5 ANGELS / “Anastasia”

RICERCAR.

□ J.S.Bach / “Ricercar” (Webern / Poppen / Münchener Kammerorchester / The Hilliard Ensemble)

>> https://music.apple.com/album/musical-offering-bwv-1079-fuga-ricercata-a-6-voci/1452639639

『G.E.B.』でも引用されているJ.S.バッハ『6声のリチェルカーレ』のヴェーヴェルン編。hr-Sinfonieorchesterの演奏はフェルマータが感動的だけど、ヒリヤード・アンサンブルによる演奏も気品が高く印象的

Goat Girl.

□ Goat Girl / “ride around”



Album “Below the Waste
Release Date: 07/06/2024


Lottie Pendlebury
Rosy Bones
Holly Mullineaux

Director/Producer/Edit - Luke Kulukundis & Mateo Villanueva Brandt
A Foreign Body Production
Director of Photography - Chaimuki
1st AC - Riley Dunmore
Production Designer - Ciara Reddy
Grade - Mateo Villanueva Brandt
Stylist - Charles Stooke
Catering - Charles Bourthoumieux

Shelf.

ブックシェルフにお気に入りの映画パンフレットやレコードを飾ってみた。数箇所に間接照明を仕掛けてみたけど、写真では分かりにくいかも…naim AudioのMU-SO QB（右下のスピーカー）は未だにピュア・オーディオとして現役を張ってくれている。深夜の贅沢なひととき…꒰* ॢꈍ◡ꈍ ॢ꒱

Sense of Spring.

□ Ludovico Einaudi / “Melodia Africana III”



Sense of Spring

℗ A Decca Records recording; ℗ 2001 Ponderosa Music & Art

Released on: 2024-03-14

Producer: Ponderosa Music & Art
Associated Performer, Piano: Ludovico Einaudi
Studio Personnel, Mastering Engineer: Stefano Barzan
Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer, Mastering Engineer: Michael Seberich
Studio Personnel, Editor: Gemma Marchegiani
Composer: Ludovico Einaudi

Luca d'Alberto / “In Our Hearts”

□ Luca d'Alberto / “In Our Hearts”

>> https://luca-dalberto.com/

Release Date; 23/02/2024
Label; Decca

1. Adore
2. Beautiful As A Memory
3. We Fall In
4. Tomorrow
5. Malinconica (6/5/1917)
6. Silence
7. Ready For Life
8. A New Dress
9. Anima

Studio Personnel, Mixer, Producer, Associated Performer, Recording Arranger, Pianoforte, Cello, Viola, Violin, Electric 6- String, Programming, Synthesizer: Luca D'Alberto
Studio Personnel, Mixer: Martyn Heyne
Composer: Luca D'Alberto

イタリアの現代音楽家、ルカ・ダルベルトのニューアルバム。室内楽調のPost-Classicalな演奏に、Electronica要素が鮮やかな濃淡を添える。Clint Mansell風の哀愁の旋律から、後半にかけて突き抜けるように昂っていく展開が多く、今作のテーマであるところの『希望』を謳い切っている


□ Luca d'Alberto / “Flowers & Thorns”



□ Luca d'Alberto feat. Tom Smith / “We Fall In”

Lavinia Meijer / “WINTER”

□ Lavinia Meijer / “WINTER”

Released on: 2024-02-02

Producer, Recording Engineer: Joris Wolff

ハープによる表現の可能性を追求し続ける世界的ソリスト、ラヴィニア・マイヤー。アムステルダムを拠点に活動するAlma Qualtetと、ベーシストReyer Zwartとの競演



□ Lavinia Meijer · Alma Quartet Amsterdam · Reyer Zwart / “Amethyst”