Release Date: 04 March 2022
Label: Coviello
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4039956921141
Genres: Classical Contemporary Classical
Description
This music knows when to be gentle, when to be harsh; when to quiet down, when to erupt; it knows when to change, and
it knows when to be still.
A meticulously designed sonic organism that is living, breathing, and evolving. Makiko is listening.
The keyboards take on many guises: at times a percussion instrument, a harp, a banjo, or a guitar, and at times
a bit-crushed, distorted electronic voice - all forming a virtual orchestra that speaks in many tongues.
Transformations of instrumental colour and harmonic space form a thread across the album, but, decidedly, not a goal-oriented narrative. There are rare precious moments where the composer pans an instrument from one ear to the other, very gradually. It is
a beautiful sensation especially when listening with headphones.
This music celebrates the beauty of subtlety, of limitations, of focus and persistence – it celebrates the complex sound world and the range of expression that these magical instruments over.
It is a playful music, constructed with Makiko’s original and genuine language.
Tracklisting
Nikolaus Heyduck
Christoph Timpe
Chorwerk Ruhr, Florian Helgath
Amy Lin
Pia Davila; Bernhard Reichel; Ensemble Musica getutscht
Laefer Quartet
Carine Tinney; Ziv Braha; ensemble feuervogel
Fanie Antonelou; Sofya Gandilyan
Gavin Bryars
Nikolaus Heyduck
Ostrava New Orchestra, Owen Underhill, Ostravska Banda, Petr Kotik, Elision Ensemble, Arditti Quartet, Switch~ Ensemble, Jason Thorpe Buchanan
Gavin Bryars
Ilse Eerens, Tomoko Kasai, Mayumi Miyata, Masanori Oishi, Saori Oya, Naoko Yoshino
L'Itineraire, Leo Margue
Hashtag Ensemble
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins, Andrew Davis
