Catalogue des Arbres, by Jacaszek & Kwartludium

Catalogue des Arbres

by Jacaszek & Kwartludium

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Released by Gusstaff Records, Poland. 6 tracks from the original 8 are included. Artwork & photography by Jon Wozencroft.

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	1.	Sigh (les peupliers) 07:01
	2.	Green Hour 04:05
	3.	A Book of Lake (roseliere) 05:28
	4.	Garden (les sureaux) 05:24
	5.	From a seashell 06:14
	6.	Circling (la pre) 05:29
	7.	Anthem (La foret) 06:18
	8.	Kingdom (les chenes les bouleaux) 06:01

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Michał Jacaszek writes:

“When poets and writers declare their enchantment for the forms of nature, they often use musical terms as metaphors. Visual artists’ creations often resemble graphic partitas, when recapturing the rhythms of landscapes. Confirming, in a way, these musical intuitions, composers write great music deeply inspired by birdsongs, wind rustlings, waves repetitions etc.

Making “Cataloguge des Arbres”, my ambition was to join this broad artistic movement devoted to natural phenomena and find my own way to describe trees: their forms, atmosphere and mystery. I have started with “open air” recordings, capturing mainly leaves” rustlings – from different distances, in different locations and weather conditions. This collection of nature recordings was transformed into a kind of “organic drone” and becomes a main background for instrumental and voice improvisations. My initial inspiration here was Olivier Messiaen’s’ bird songs transcriptions for piano – the composer’s work title “Catalogue d’Oiseaux” I have paraphrased on my album . A piano, clarinets, violin and percussion parts, performed by the Kwartludium ensemble, were electronically processed, and afterwards all this electro-acoustic material was turned into a collection of 8 soundscapes – forgotten songs performed secretly by my beloved trees.”

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released June 10, 2014

1. Sigh (Les peupliers)
2. Green hour - (omitted from the vinyl)
3. A book of lake (Roselière)
4. Garden (Les sureaux)
5. From a seashell
6. Circling (Le pré)
7. Anthem (La forêt) - (omitted from the vinyl)
8. Kingdom (Les chênes, les bouleaux)

composed, recorded and produced by Michał Jacaszek | additional composing and all instrumental parts performed by Kwartludium | Voice parts (tracks 1, 8) performed by 441 Hz chamber choir | Additional clarinet parts (tracks 2, 3) performed by Andrzej Wojciechowski Grand piano recorded by Cezary Joczyn at Gdańsk Academy of Music

Kwartludium are Dagna Sadkowska: violin | Michał Górczyński: clarinet, bass clarinet | Paweł Nowicki: percussion | Piotr Nowicki: grand piano

Mastered by Denis Blackham at Skye
Artwork & photography by Jon Wozencroft

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For the past decade or so, Polish musician Michal Jacaszek has been exploring a new, resolutely modern chapter in Eastern Europe’s long, storied love affair with classical music. His creations are painstakingly crafted collages of electronic textures and baroque instrumentation. ... more

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