| | Marta Forsberg - Sjunger För Varandra | Split between pieces written for voice and field recordings, Swedish composer Marta Forsberg returns to her native Härnösand for Sjunger För Varandra, originally a commission from the northern Swedish town where the recordings took place. The elegant release is spread over four parts, sandwiched between an intro and outro, coming in at a mere 17 minutes. Without much prior knowledge of the tunnel where the performances were captured, the four central parts appear to have been divided equally between composition and recorded ephemera. It is not immediately clear what significance the tunnel has for Forsberg, but the inclusion of her brother as the sole vocal performer surely speaks to the familial significance of returning home for Sjunger För Varandra, which translates, I am told, to "Singing for Each Other." The gerundive is instructive here, for it places the emphasis on the act or performative dimension of the pieces, rather than hinting at anything like a fixed entity or score.
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| | Liza Lim - Annunciation Triptych | Here’s a pro package from Kairos, which you’d expect as an esteemed classical label, with a CD digipak featuring an extensive booklet neatly fixed inside. The Australian composer Lim presents, yes, three pieces here: ‘Sappho/Bioluminescence’, ‘Mary/Transcendence after Trauma’, and ‘Fatimah/Jubilation of Flowers’, all performed by the WDR Sinfonieorchester, featuring soprano Emily Hindrichs, and conducted by Cristian Măcelaru. The booklet explains that the Annunciation Triptych ‘draws a broad line from the Greek poet Sappho to Mary, the virgin Mother of God, to Fatima, the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, founder of Islam. The composer considers the stories of these three women as comments on ecological, spiritual and transcultural issues of our times
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| | Typhoon Club - Typhoon Club(Blu Ray) | From Sailor Suit, Machine Gun and Love Hotel director Shinji Somai comes Typhoon Club(1985), a Japanese coming-of-age tale which follows a small group o...
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| | The Music of Clay Ruby & Burial H... | Over the last couple of decades Wisconsin native, Clay Ruby has been creating some of the world’s finest dark electronic music under the Burial Hex mon...
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