Description
Following up on his Balkan-jazz-folk-opera album 'Rousilvo' (2018), Macedonian composer/multi-instrumentalist Dine Doneff presents 'In/Out' as the second release on the neRED music label in cooperation with ECM Records.
The 21-minute long album has been referred to as a "Soundscape Theater for Double Bass and Tapes" and was recorded live on July 1, 2016 in Domagk Ateliers, Munich as a part of the vernissage for In Searching of a Common Ground #2, an exhibition of eleven contemporary Macedonian artists.
As a play in one act, 'In/Out' is a dialogue between a soloist and a soundscape of pre-recorded compositions and field recordings made in several European cities, which runs through the performance. The question of what is "in" and what is "out" creates a dialectical conversation between the actor/improviser and the composer/thinker. Common ground, division within, contradiction, homecoming, unbelonging, disquiet and exile arise in succession as subjects upon which an intensive dialogue takes place.
Dine Doneff: double bass