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Jon Balke's musical life has been lived on the wide-open fringe of expression. He has utilized conventional Western European and Asian folk traditions, electronics, classical, jazz and avant-garde techniques, and various spoken, sung, and percussive languages. Given all of his previous experimentation, Warp is one of the most mysterious dates in his career. The vast majority of the 16 pieces here are miniatures, only one is over five minutes. Balke plays solo piano throughout, and accompanies himself by utilizing field recordings and other electronic sounds placed carefully in the backdrops and margins. It would seem this work is one piece initially -- you have to look at the inside sleeve to see the individual titles; but instead, this is a work of carefully sequenced individual works that present a labyrinth. "Heliolatry" opens in the piano's lower middle register with dark, brooding notes. A fluttery static and the scraping of strings inside the instrument lend a backdrop to a thematic flurry of notes and scales as they dialogue with one another. Static and what sounds like an organ pair with the wordless vocals of Wenche Losnegaard in "On and On," which ends with an open-ended question. "Bolide" possesses a hymn-like, folk song quality, while sparse processional chordal statements make up its corpus on either side of middle C. The all-too-brief "Shibboleth" employs somewhat angular improvisation, with field-recorded percussive sounds lining the frame. Balke actually slips into Lennie Tristano-esque scalar runs and then moves off center in a more speculative -- and dissonant -- direction. The indecipherable "announcement reading" of Balke's daughter Ellinor provides a sound sculpture for his plucked bass strings to bridge just the hint of a melody. It's followed by the genuinely haunting "Slow Spin," a jazz improvisation that is framed ever so faintly with droning electronic sounds. While "Kantor" asserts itself as a lithe, elliptical piano interlude, it is transformed by a mesh of field-recorded sounds and the voice of Mattis Myrland into a gorgeous art song. The album closes with a variation on "Heliolatry," then forgoes the inner instrument scraping for a more assertive dialogue with a synth imitating an organ. Balke's piano is assertive, creating a leitmotif from the more spectral dark notes in the first version. Warp is curious. Its quark strangeness may prove a tad unsettling early on, but settles into a quietly compelling invitation for the listener. The entire experience offers a different series of questions, answers, and conclusions each time it is encountered. The language Balke speaks is that of the piano as it encounters the inner resonances of its physical body, as well as those of the outer, indefinable tongues of sound itself.
© Thom Jurek /TiVo
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Jan Erik Kongshaug, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jon Balke, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Stefano Amerio, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2016 ECM Records GmbH
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jon Balke, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Stefano Amerio, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2016 ECM Records GmbH
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jon Balke, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Stefano Amerio, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2016 ECM Records GmbH
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jon Balke, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Stefano Amerio, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2016 ECM Records GmbH
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jon Balke, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Stefano Amerio, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2016 ECM Records GmbH
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jon Balke, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Stefano Amerio, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2016 ECM Records GmbH
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jon Balke, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Stefano Amerio, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2016 ECM Records GmbH
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jon Balke, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Stefano Amerio, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2016 ECM Records GmbH
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jon Balke, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Stefano Amerio, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2016 ECM Records GmbH
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jon Balke, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Stefano Amerio, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2016 ECM Records GmbH
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jon Balke, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Stefano Amerio, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2016 ECM Records GmbH
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jon Balke, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Stefano Amerio, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2016 ECM Records GmbH
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jon Balke, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Stefano Amerio, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2016 ECM Records GmbH
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jon Balke, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Stefano Amerio, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2016 ECM Records GmbH
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jon Balke, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Stefano Amerio, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2016 ECM Records GmbH
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jon Balke, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Stefano Amerio, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2016 ECM Records GmbH
Approfondimenti
Jon Balke's musical life has been lived on the wide-open fringe of expression. He has utilized conventional Western European and Asian folk traditions, electronics, classical, jazz and avant-garde techniques, and various spoken, sung, and percussive languages. Given all of his previous experimentation, Warp is one of the most mysterious dates in his career. The vast majority of the 16 pieces here are miniatures, only one is over five minutes. Balke plays solo piano throughout, and accompanies himself by utilizing field recordings and other electronic sounds placed carefully in the backdrops and margins. It would seem this work is one piece initially -- you have to look at the inside sleeve to see the individual titles; but instead, this is a work of carefully sequenced individual works that present a labyrinth. "Heliolatry" opens in the piano's lower middle register with dark, brooding notes. A fluttery static and the scraping of strings inside the instrument lend a backdrop to a thematic flurry of notes and scales as they dialogue with one another. Static and what sounds like an organ pair with the wordless vocals of Wenche Losnegaard in "On and On," which ends with an open-ended question. "Bolide" possesses a hymn-like, folk song quality, while sparse processional chordal statements make up its corpus on either side of middle C. The all-too-brief "Shibboleth" employs somewhat angular improvisation, with field-recorded percussive sounds lining the frame. Balke actually slips into Lennie Tristano-esque scalar runs and then moves off center in a more speculative -- and dissonant -- direction. The indecipherable "announcement reading" of Balke's daughter Ellinor provides a sound sculpture for his plucked bass strings to bridge just the hint of a melody. It's followed by the genuinely haunting "Slow Spin," a jazz improvisation that is framed ever so faintly with droning electronic sounds. While "Kantor" asserts itself as a lithe, elliptical piano interlude, it is transformed by a mesh of field-recorded sounds and the voice of Mattis Myrland into a gorgeous art song. The album closes with a variation on "Heliolatry," then forgoes the inner instrument scraping for a more assertive dialogue with a synth imitating an organ. Balke's piano is assertive, creating a leitmotif from the more spectral dark notes in the first version. Warp is curious. Its quark strangeness may prove a tad unsettling early on, but settles into a quietly compelling invitation for the listener. The entire experience offers a different series of questions, answers, and conclusions each time it is encountered. The language Balke speaks is that of the piano as it encounters the inner resonances of its physical body, as well as those of the outer, indefinable tongues of sound itself.
© Thom Jurek /TiVo
A proposito dell'album
- 1 disco(i) - 16 traccia(e)
- Durata totale: 00:52:22
- Artisti principali: Jon Balke
- Compositore: Jon Balke
- Etichetta: ECM Records
- Genere: Jazz
© 2016 ECM Records GmbH ℗ 2016 ECM Records GmbH
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