Rim i Berlin povezani tankom metalnom vrpcom neba.
tehoteardo.com/en/opera/album/teho-teardo-blixa-bargeld/
This is a quite
unique collaboration, an unexpected one between the italian composer
Teho Teardo and Blixa Bargeld, leader of Einstürzende Neubauten and
former Bad Seeds. They first met during the realization of Ingiuria, a
theatre pièce and right after that they collaborated on a song for a
soundtrack, "A Quite Life". That song started the whole process of
writing and producing an album together where songs and more
experimental pieces could find a common ground.
The original use of strings: cello, violin, guitars, a full string quartet diverts the traditional perception of those classic instruments when they deal with electronics and the result is emotionally moving.
The album has been written and recorded between Berlin and Rome, it took nearly two years to be made, Teho and Blixa worked next to each other choosing carefully every sound, every word and silence.
There are 12 songs on Still Smiling, including a new version of A Quiet Life and a cover of Alone With The Moon by The Tiger Lilies.
Amongst collaborators there are The Balanescu Quartet and cellist Martina Bertoni.
Lyrics are visionary and are sung in english, german and italian, Blixa reveals a really personal and intimate side to the listener this time.
Still Smiling is an album whose special vision covers all the sky between Rome and Berlin, daytime and nocturnal.
It'll be released on Teho's label Specula on april 22nd in Italy and it'll be distributed all over Europe on June 28th 2013.
There's also an italian tour in May: 7th Roma, Circolo degli Artisti, 9th Milano, Alcatraz, 10th Moncalieri/Torino, Audiodrome, 11th Bologna, Senza Filtro where Teho and Blixa will be joined on stage by cellist Martina Bertoni.
The original use of strings: cello, violin, guitars, a full string quartet diverts the traditional perception of those classic instruments when they deal with electronics and the result is emotionally moving.
The album has been written and recorded between Berlin and Rome, it took nearly two years to be made, Teho and Blixa worked next to each other choosing carefully every sound, every word and silence.
There are 12 songs on Still Smiling, including a new version of A Quiet Life and a cover of Alone With The Moon by The Tiger Lilies.
Amongst collaborators there are The Balanescu Quartet and cellist Martina Bertoni.
Lyrics are visionary and are sung in english, german and italian, Blixa reveals a really personal and intimate side to the listener this time.
Still Smiling is an album whose special vision covers all the sky between Rome and Berlin, daytime and nocturnal.
It'll be released on Teho's label Specula on april 22nd in Italy and it'll be distributed all over Europe on June 28th 2013.
There's also an italian tour in May: 7th Roma, Circolo degli Artisti, 9th Milano, Alcatraz, 10th Moncalieri/Torino, Audiodrome, 11th Bologna, Senza Filtro where Teho and Blixa will be joined on stage by cellist Martina Bertoni.
This is a quite unique collaboration, an unexpected one between the italian composer Teho Teardo and Blixa Bargeld, leader of Einstürzende Neubauten and former Bad Seeds. They first met during the realization of Ingiuria, a theatre pièce and right after that they collaborated on a song for a soundtrack, "A Quite Life". That song started the whole process of writing and producing an album together where songs and more experimental pieces could find a common ground.
The original use of strings: cello, violin, guitars, a full string quartet diverts the traditional perception of those classic instruments when they deal with electronics and the result is emotionally moving.
The album has been written and recorded between Berlin and Rome, it took nearly two years to be made, Teho and Blixa worked next to each other choosing carefully every sound, every word and silence.There are 12 songs on Still Smiling, including a new version of A Quiet Life and a cover of Alone With The Moon by The Tiger Lilies.
Amongst collaborators there are The Balanescu Quartet and cellist Martina Bertoni.
Lyrics are visionary and are sung in english, german and italian, Blixa reveals a really personal and intimate side to the listener this time.
Still Smiling is an album whose special vision covers all the sky between Rome and Berlin, daytime and nocturnal.It'll be released on Teho's label Specula on april 22nd in Italy and it'll be distributed all over Europe on June 28th 2013 and UK on July 1st.
There's also an italian tour in May: 7th Roma, Circolo degli Artisti, 9th Milano, Alcatraz, 10th Moncalieri/Torino, Audiodrome, 11th Bologna, Senza Filtro where Teho and Blixa will be joined on stage by cellist Martina Bertoni. - tehoteardo.com/
This is a quite
unique collaboration, an unexpected one between the italian composer
Teho Teardo and Blixa Bargeld, leader of Einstürzende Neubauten and
former Bad Seeds. They first met during the realization of Ingiuria, a
theatre pièce and right after that they collaborated on a song for a
soundtrack, "A Quite Life". That song started the whole process of
writing and producing an album together where songs and more
experimental pieces could find a common ground.
The original use of strings: cello, violin, guitars, a full string quartet diverts the traditional perception of those classic instruments when they deal with electronics and the result is emotionally moving.
The album has been written and recorded between Berlin and Rome, it took nearly two years to be made, Teho and Blixa worked next to each other choosing carefully every sound, every word and silence.
There are 12 songs on Still Smiling, including a new version of A Quiet Life and a cover of Alone With The Moon by The Tiger Lilies.
Amongst collaborators there are The Balanescu Quartet and cellist Martina Bertoni.
Lyrics are visionary and are sung in english, german and italian, Blixa reveals a really personal and intimate side to the listener this time.
Still Smiling is an album whose special vision covers all the sky between Rome and Berlin, daytime and nocturnal.
It'll be released on Teho's label Specula on april 22nd in Italy and it'll be distributed all over Europe on June 28th 2013.
There's also an italian tour in May: 7th Roma, Circolo degli Artisti, 9th Milano, Alcatraz, 10th Moncalieri/Torino, Audiodrome, 11th Bologna, Senza Filtro where Teho and Blixa will be joined on stage by cellist Martina Bertoni.
The promo for this album turned up a few years ago and has been on fairly regular rotation here at Norman Towers ever since, with former Einsturzende Neubauten/Bad Seeds character Blixa Bargeldteaming up with Italian composer Teho Teardo for a collection of dusky chamber pop with Bargeld singing in both English and German at different points. Phil is saying that it reminds him of Neubauten’s landmark ‘Tabula Rasa’ LP, and I think it reminds me of his moodier works with Mr Cave such as ‘No More Shall We Part’ but with less obvious sentimentality, instead opting for quite desolate and lonely moods.The original use of strings: cello, violin, guitars, a full string quartet diverts the traditional perception of those classic instruments when they deal with electronics and the result is emotionally moving.
The album has been written and recorded between Berlin and Rome, it took nearly two years to be made, Teho and Blixa worked next to each other choosing carefully every sound, every word and silence.
There are 12 songs on Still Smiling, including a new version of A Quiet Life and a cover of Alone With The Moon by The Tiger Lilies.
Amongst collaborators there are The Balanescu Quartet and cellist Martina Bertoni.
Lyrics are visionary and are sung in english, german and italian, Blixa reveals a really personal and intimate side to the listener this time.
Still Smiling is an album whose special vision covers all the sky between Rome and Berlin, daytime and nocturnal.
It'll be released on Teho's label Specula on april 22nd in Italy and it'll be distributed all over Europe on June 28th 2013.
There's also an italian tour in May: 7th Roma, Circolo degli Artisti, 9th Milano, Alcatraz, 10th Moncalieri/Torino, Audiodrome, 11th Bologna, Senza Filtro where Teho and Blixa will be joined on stage by cellist Martina Bertoni.
Sometimes the strange throbbing strings and chord sequences seem to repeat, but rather than feeling samey it gives the album the feel of a song cycle as opposed to a collection of individual pieces, which works rather well with the whole album maintaining a steady plodding tempo like a heartbeat running through all the tracks, and Bargeld’s voice proving supremely expressive whether he’s singing in a language you understand or not. The backing strikes a good balance, too, between subtle Craig Armstrong-ish electronics and live strings. It’s an intoxicating and powerful record, easily the equal of the most recent Bad Seeds one. If his other bands’ more romantic output appeals to you, prepare to be swept away all over again.- Norman Records
"'Still Smiling' is a collaboration between Italian composer, Teho
Teardo and Blixa Bargeld, leader of Einstürzende Neubauten and former
Bad Seed. They first met during the realization of ‘Ingiuria’, a
theatre piece, and afterwards collaborated on a song for a film
soundtrack, entitled ‘A Quiet Life’. It was this song which started
the process of writing and producing an album together, where songs and
experimental pieces could find a common ground. The original use of
strings: cello, violin, guitars and a full string quartet diverts the
traditional perception of those instruments when treated by with
electronics. The album has been written and recorded between Berlin and
Rome, and took nearly two years to make. Teho and Blixa worked next to
each other carefully choosing every sound, every word and every silence.
Blixa reveals a personal and intimate side, the lyrics are sung in
English, German and Italian. The result is 12 songs, including a new
version of ‘A Quiet Life’ and a cover of ‘Alone With The Moon’ by The
Tiger Lilies. Collaborators on the album include The Balanescu Quartet
and cellist, Martina Bertoni." -boomkat
This collaboration between Einstürzende Neubauten’s Blixa Bargeld and
Italian composer Teho Teardo reveals a strikingly symbiotic
relationship between the pair, who worked together on theatre and film
soundtracks before Still Smiling was conceived. The instrumentation sets
violin, cello, piano and guitar against metallic percussion, while
Bargeld ponderously intones vocal contributions in English, German and
Italian; the musical palette brings out a tenderness in Bargeld’s vocals
that is less evident in his other projects.
That said, the tone of the pieces often recalls Neubauten’s dark,
nervous tension, although their sharp-edged, post-industrial aesthetic
is here replaced with a hazier atmosphere – particularly on the
mournful, fluttering strings of songs like Come Up and See Me. While
this makes Still Smiling
a less challenging and complex record than some of Bargeld’s other
work, it does have a rare space and quietude, which emphasises the
deadpan, melancholy humour of his lyrics and vocal style. [Sam Wiseman]
It's been a
while since his last album, after many successful soundtrack works it's
time for a new record, not connected to the movie world but still close
to the visual media.
On this new project Teho establish an unusual relation with the incredible photographic book by Charles Fréger: Wilder Mann, The Image Of The Savage.
This album carries a profoundly moving feeling mixing strings, guitars and electronics, poignancy is the most evident feeling here. This music erases the space between our safe technological lifestyle and the monsters that live in territories as far as the eye can see. Savages inherited from a pagan tradition that quickly find their way into our own feelings.
Fantastic musicians like The Balanescu Quartet, Erik Friedlander (Masada/John Zorn), Julia Kent (Antony and the Johnsons, Rasputina), Martina Bertoni played the strings on this album. Their contribution helped building melodic cells out of layers of atmospheric drones.
Teho's unique style, difficult to categorize, brings us a really dark sound whose complexity discloses several minuscule elements that keep changing within a repetitive structure, like if repetition were the only possible way for a change.
Inspired from Wilder Mann: The Image Of The Savage, the great photographic book by Charles Fréger. The transformation of man to beast is a central aspect of traditional pagan rituals that are centuries old and which celebrate the seasonal cycle, fertility, life and death. Each year, throughout Europe, from Scotland to Bulgaria, from Finland to Italy, from Portugal to Greece via France, Switzerland and Germany, people literally put themselves into the skin of the 'savage', in masquerades that stretch back centuries. By becoming a bear, a goat, a stag or a wild boar, a man of straw, a devil or a monster with jaws of steel, these people celebrate the cycle of life and of the seasons. Their costumes, made of animal skins or of plants, and decorated with bones, encircled with bells, and capped with horns or antlers, amaze us with their extraordinary diversity and prodigious beauty. Work on this project took photographer Charles Freger to eighteen European countries in search of the mythological figure of the Wild Man: Austria, Italy, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Poland, Portugal, Germany, Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Croatia, Finland, Romania and the UK.
On this new project Teho establish an unusual relation with the incredible photographic book by Charles Fréger: Wilder Mann, The Image Of The Savage.
This album carries a profoundly moving feeling mixing strings, guitars and electronics, poignancy is the most evident feeling here. This music erases the space between our safe technological lifestyle and the monsters that live in territories as far as the eye can see. Savages inherited from a pagan tradition that quickly find their way into our own feelings.
Fantastic musicians like The Balanescu Quartet, Erik Friedlander (Masada/John Zorn), Julia Kent (Antony and the Johnsons, Rasputina), Martina Bertoni played the strings on this album. Their contribution helped building melodic cells out of layers of atmospheric drones.
Teho's unique style, difficult to categorize, brings us a really dark sound whose complexity discloses several minuscule elements that keep changing within a repetitive structure, like if repetition were the only possible way for a change.
Inspired from Wilder Mann: The Image Of The Savage, the great photographic book by Charles Fréger. The transformation of man to beast is a central aspect of traditional pagan rituals that are centuries old and which celebrate the seasonal cycle, fertility, life and death. Each year, throughout Europe, from Scotland to Bulgaria, from Finland to Italy, from Portugal to Greece via France, Switzerland and Germany, people literally put themselves into the skin of the 'savage', in masquerades that stretch back centuries. By becoming a bear, a goat, a stag or a wild boar, a man of straw, a devil or a monster with jaws of steel, these people celebrate the cycle of life and of the seasons. Their costumes, made of animal skins or of plants, and decorated with bones, encircled with bells, and capped with horns or antlers, amaze us with their extraordinary diversity and prodigious beauty. Work on this project took photographer Charles Freger to eighteen European countries in search of the mythological figure of the Wild Man: Austria, Italy, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Poland, Portugal, Germany, Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Croatia, Finland, Romania and the UK.
Charles Fréger and Teho Teardo -Wilder Mann, book and CD
Teho Teardo, Music for Wilde Mann, Specula Records 2013
Charles Feger's latest book Wilder Mann is
now in its second printing, so it is anything but a "limited edition"
but I want it here on the Buffet to keep all of his other 15 books company.
Not only is it a beautiful book about an amazing body of work, but now
there is a music track available which was made specifically for the
work. Often photographers talk about being inspired by music when
photographing or working on their projects, this is a case of a musician
composing an entire project inspired by images. The accomplished
Italian composer and sound designer Teho Teardo has written 8 acoustic tracks inspired by the monsters in all of us.
"This album carries a profoundly moving feeling mixing strings, guitars and electronics, poignancy is the most evident feeling here. This music erases the space between our safe technological lifestyle and the monsters that live in territories as far as the eye can see. Savages inherited from a pagan tradition that quickly find their way into our own feelings." (Teho Teardo)
Charles spent several years traveling europe searching out groups of people which nurture historic pagan costume rituals.
"I was going on an excursion within tribal Europe, the polar opposite of our images of modern civilisations. I was entering into a territory of landscapes as far as the eye can see. Wilder Mann was its archetypal hero, half man half beast, a hairy monster, a multi-faceted devil, a bloodthirsty or soft teddy bear, a fertile caprine or a scapegoat wild boar. I had envisioned an organic wild man, hidden behind mud, grease, charcoal, the sculpted wood of his horned mask, covered in leaves or dead animals, wearing his bells noisily. I had already fantasised that he was like an animal belonging to a pack of crouching bipeds: the essential model of a zoomorphic figure, whose rudimentary appearance and ritualistic attire would classify him as belonging to a form of universal nudity". ( Charles Fréger)
He is a portrait photographer who often poses the question of
what it means to belong to a group, to inhabit its history, to be
part of a circle. After photographing such groups of people as water
polo players, majorettes and sumo wrestlers, among many others,
this series focuses on the Wilder
Mann.
Initially
inspired by the Krampus
in and around Salzburg in 2009, Fréger began a Europe-wide
exploration, in 18 countires, of similar rituals and cultural
traditions involving the pagan traditions linked to the beginning
and end of winter, the seasons, fertility, life and death. He has
chosen to focus his survey on the transformation of man into beast,
with interest in the mythology of the Wild
Man, a
cultural phenomenon which
goes
back many centuries and exists in many European countries to this
date.
Nema komentara:
Objavi komentar