Artist : Carlos Cipa & Sophia Jani
Album : Relive
Year : 2014
Genre : Classical
Quality : 217kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : Webshop / FLAC
Playtime : 0h 23m
Size : 37.97mb
Label : Denovali Records
Catalognr : DEN192
Tracklist:
01. Anouk's Dream 13:32
02. Whatever A Sun Will Always Sing 9:43
Releasenotes:
Carlos Cipa, musician and composer residing in Munich (Germany), has been
teaming up with pianist and composer Sophia Jani to follow up his highly
acclaimed full length debut "The Monarch and the Viceroy" with a two-piece
collaboration record named Relive.
Carlos discovered his passion for music very early in his life. At the age of 6
he began taking classical piano lessons with various renowned teachers. Ten
years later after he started playing drums in different bands he became more and
more interested in composition and improvisation. In the following years he made
experiences in different music styles like jazz, hardcore/punk, indie rock and
orchestral music. For his debut record on Denovali Records he focused on his
main instrument, the piano. Currently, he is studying classical composition at
the "University of Music and Performing Arts Munich".
Since the release of his debut record, Carlos so far shared the stage with
marvelous acts like A Winged Victory For The Sullen, Valgeir Sigur¡sson, Nils
Frahm and ╦lafur Arnalds.
Sophia Jani, being in the beginning of her twenties like Carlos, has discovered
her fascination for piano in a similar age. She is classically trained on piano
and violin and has deepened her skills at the conservatory of music in Munich
before she began studying piano at the conservatory in Bordeaux, France. Sophia
left Bordeaux after one year turning away from just interpreting classical
pieces to concentrate on writing her own music. Taking this crucial step, a
concert of Ludovico Einaudi she attended played an important role. Recently
Sophia developed an interest in filmscoring as well as experimenting with
vocals. Besides classical composers like Chopin and Ravel, filmmusic especially
from Bernard Hermann and Thomas Newman influenced her compositions.
The two pieces "Anouk's Dream" and "Whatever a Sun Will Always Sing" were
written for Carlo's and Sophia's performance at the Denovali Swingfest 2013 in
Essen. The idea was to jointly compose two piano pieces for four hands, which do
not only include playing the ordinary way, but also utilising rather unusual
sounds from inside the piano. Carlos and Sophia used all kinds of contemporary
techniques to create these sounds, like plucking and beating the strings with
their fingers or different kinds of beaters, bowing them with nylon guitar
strings, creating harmonics while pressing fingers down on the strings during
playing, using the Σaeolian harp"-technique (used for the first time by Henry
Cowell in 1923) or creating beats on the cast iron frame. Throughout the two
tracks nothing other than their combined fingers, the two nylon strings and
three different kinds of beaters were used to create the music, the pieces can
be played live without using any electronics.
During the recording process of the album Relive, neither of the compositions
has been changed in any way. They were played exactly as in the live situation,
which was a very important theme throughout this collaboration.
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