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a r t i s t : Gino Zardo and Janek Schaefer
t i t l e : Walking East
d a t e : 2005
l a b e l : Alluvial Recordings [A22]
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : oktober/2005
t r a c k s : 01
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 31,6 MB
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Gino Zardo is a photographer and field recordist born to
Italian parents in Australia in 1968. He lives New York and
has worked along side with some of the most prominent
photographers in the world for 15 years. Walking East is his
debut release.
Walking East is a photographic sound portrait of my travels
through the North Western provinces of India, the Himalayas of
Nepal and the Island of Papua New Guinea. I set out to
explore, through the people I met, the way in which my
photographs and sound recordings could magnify the sense of
time and place.
I began the project in January 1999. Covering 50,000 miles
over the next 12 months. I found myself trekking for days
through the vast contrasting of landscapes, a western desert,
a tropical monsoon, and a dense jungle before I would reach a
remote village.
Camping along the way and living amongst the families and
tribes, I was able to experience their daily lives and acquire
an understanding of their histories and cultures. Documenting
a variety of people as they performed in music festivals,
worked in steel mills, sold their wares in markets, and
celebrated their tribal rituals together, I found many
similarities. The presence of community; joy, hardship and
survival are universal.
My thanks to everyone I met throughout my journey who shared
their homes and lives with me. I would like to dedicate this
project to Moke, a friend I had made along the way, whose
courage and honour saved my life...Special thanks to To Aimee,
the power of my strength, the love of my life, and also to
Janek, whose patience and gifted talents helped me develop and
complete the project.
REVIEWS
Vital, Holland
>
Gino Zardo is a photographer and field recording artist, and
perhaps that is the same thing. Taking photographs of people
and/or environments is the same as recording their sound. This
mini CD is the result of a travel through the North Western
provinces of India, the Himalayas and Papua New Guinea. In the
booklet we see his photography, which is quite nice. The
sounds recorded while en route were handed out to Janek
Schaeffer, who edited the music, into a nice collage of ethnic
sound - a soundpicture of the Third World. For me an area of
the world that I haven't visited before, but which I know from
previous releases in this area, starting with the Touch
cassettes up until the Indian Soundscapes on Soleilmoon. In
that respect it doesn't add something new for me, to either
field recording or knowing more about the cultures the
recordings come from, but nevertheless its a well done
release. (FdW)
Gonzo Circus, Belgium
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Meer dan zes jaar had Ginzo Zardo nodig om æWalking EastÆ uit
te werken en af te ronden. Zardo, geboren in Australiδ uit
Italiaanse ouders woont en werkt als fotograaf in New-York.
Voor æWalking EastÆ trok hij twaalf maanden rond in India,
Nepal, Papa New Guinea en de Himalaya. Zijn ervaringen
bundelde hij in een fotoreportage. De fotoÆs û stuk voor stuk
indringende beelden van de plaatselijke culturen. Zardo zoomt
in op eenvoudige taferelen en plaats in zijn werk de mens
centraal, een zeldzaam beeld van een ma∩sveld en een visvangst
niet te nagelaten û worden muzikaal ondersteund met
geluidsopnames die Zardo ter plaatse maakte. Janek Schaefer
verwerkte de opnames tot een lang uitgesponnen collega. Voor
Schaefer, een gevestigde turntablist en geluidsarchitect, is
æWalking EastÆ opnieuw een verdieping in een andere cultuur
geworden. Voor zijn vorige plaat æSongs For EuropeÆ, een
samenwerking met Philip Jeck, liet hij zich inspireren door de
Turkse en de Griekse traditie, nu verdiept hij zich in de
primitieve Aziatische culturen. De combinatie van het
fotomateriaal en het ruw geschetst geluidsarchief maken
æWalking EastÆ tot een volwaardig reisverslag. Het fijne oog
van Zardo en het gehoor van Schaefer, stille
ontdekkingsreizigers van een vergeten wereld, zorgt ervoor dat
æWalking EastÆ een absolute aanrader is.... [Walking East is
an absolute must] (pds)
Phosphor Magazine
>
If like me you relish the idea of listening to the birds in
strange foreign climes, conversing with Sadués, attending
tribal rituals, taking taxi journeys in rickety old cars
youéve never seen before whilst listening to the radio and it
all sounds so much better, lovely and new and all the while
taking hundreds of photographs, then youéll love this Walking
Easté is the debut release from Gino Zardo who is a
photographer and field recordist from Australia, its a
photographic sound portrait of the artistés travels through
the North Western provinces of India, the Himalayas and Papua
New Guinea, its very succesful as for the entire piece your
right there with him. He was able to gain the trust to get
close enough to live amongst the families and tribes of these
regions and witness and indeed record their ragas and
spirituals, crafting and blending it all together to create
something quite special. The CD is also accompanied by a
booklet full of Gino's beautiful photography taken on his
travels, in fact this is one of the theme's that brings it all
together, as you listen at certain points you will here the
constant winding on of his camera. A lovely piece of work
realising that the presence of community, hardship, joy and
survival are universal. Iém off now to grow a substantial
beard, live up a mountain and rear goats for their milk.
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01-Walking East [21:38]
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21:38 min