Artist : Lubomyr Melnyk
Album : Fallen Trees
Year : 2018
Genre : Classical
Quality : 251kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : CD
Playtime : 0h 44m
Size : 83.27mb
Label : Erased Tapes Records
Catalognr : ERATP116CD
Tracklist:
01. Requiem For A Fallen Tree 7:14
02. Son Of Parasol 7:37
03. Barcarolle 8:01
04. Part I: Preamble 4:22
05. Part II: Existence 3:23
06. Part III: Apparition 6:29
07. Part IV: They Are Down 3:45
08. Part V: Not Forgotten 3:22
Releasenotes:
The album release coincides with Melnyk's 70th birthday, but despite the
autumnal hint in its title, there's little suggestion of him slowing down.
Having received critical acclaim and co-headlining the prestigious Royal
Festival Hall as part of the Erased Tapes 10th anniversary celebrations, after
many years his audience is now both global and growing. The composer is finally
gaining a momentum in his career that matches the vibrant, highly active energy
of his playing.
Cascades of notes, canyons and rivers of sound: there's something about his
music that channels the natural world at its most awe-inspiring. In Fallen Trees
the connection with the environment continues, taking its cue from a long rail
journey Melnyk made through Europe. Glancing out of the window as the train
passed through a dark forest, he was struck by the sight of trees that had
recently been felled. "They were glorious," he says. "Even though they'd been
killed, they weren't dead. There was something sorrowful there, but also
hopeful." That sense of sadness touched by optimism infuses the album, too:
rarely has Melnyk made music so shot through with melancholy and regret, but
which sounds so rapt, even radiant.
Drawing comparisons with Steve Reich and the post-rock group Godspeed You, Black
Emperor!, Pitchfork praised his 2015 album Rivers And Streams for it's
"sustained concentration and ecstatic energy". That energy is present in Fallen
Trees too, but at points the tone is quieter, the mood darker and more wistful.
At points elsewhere on the album, despite being rooted in the wonders of the
natural world, there's a kaleidoscopic quality in the fractal flurry of notes
and the broad spectrum of colour they summon.
The work that gives it its name, the five-part, 20-minute Fallen Trees, is one
of the most ambitious and demanding pieces he has ever created. Though the music
is - as ever - Melnyk's own, Fallen Trees once again features a number of Erased
Tapes artists. Japanese vocal artist Hatis Noit, whose first EP Illogical Dance
came out to much acclaim earlier this year, lends ethereal vocals, floating
mysteriously above the surface of Melnyk's eddying piano lines before diving far
beneath. Other contributors include Berlin-based cellist Anne Mⁿller, a sometime
collaborator with Nils Frahm, and American singer David Allred, the most recent
addition to the label family. "More than any of the albums that 've done, it's
a real collaboration," Melnyk insists, emphasising how much he owes to his
producer, Erased Tapes founder Robert Raths.
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