Cat No:
7799541
Release Date: 15 May 2020
Label: ECM
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 602577995415
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
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Description
Jon Balke's solo recordings comprise a special subset of his work, informed by the improvisational daring and compositional imagination that has made him one of creative music's most original voices.
Discourses is his third solo album, preceded by Book of Velocities (recorded 2006) and Warp (2015). The new album, recorded in sessions in 2019, takes further the integration and juxtaposition of acoustic piano and processed soundscapes introduced on Warp.
Jon Balke's unique solo work blurs distinctions between composition, improvisation and sound design as Discourses further develops the methodology introduced with the Norwegian pianist's Warp album. Integrated in the resonant sound of his piano music are "layered soundscapes" of processed material which Balke describes as "distorted reflections and reverberations from the world."
Underpinning the project are some thoughts about language, and the notion of discourse and dialogue as fading concepts in an era of confrontational rhetoric.
Balke: "In this work I had the framework of language with me from the beginning. As the political climate hardened in 2019 with more and more polarized speech, the lack of dialogue pointed me towards the terms that constitute the titles for the tracks."
Discourses was recorded at Lugano's Auditorio Stelio Molo in December 2019, and produced by Manfred Eicher.
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Tracklisting
- 1. The Oppostition
- 2. The Facilitator
- 3. The Container
- 4. The Assumptions
- 5. The Certainties
- 6. The Suspension
- 7. The Polarization
- 8. The Second Argument
- 9. The Why
- 10. The Deliberation
- 11. The First Argument
- 12. The How
- 13. The Mutuality
- 14. The First Afterthought
- 15. The Second Afterthought
- 16. The Third Afterthought
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