5060217670330

Scalar

ELISION Ensemble

Regular
£12.99
Sale
Regular
£12.99
Unavailable
Unit Price
per 

Format: CDR

Cat No: HCR35

PRE-ORDER: This item will be shipped with the aim to deliver on release day.

Release Date:  15 November 2024

Label:  Huddersfield Contemporary Rec

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5060217670330

Genres:  Classical  Contemporary Classical  

  • Description

    ELISION present their new album scalar on HCR. Exhibiting their trademark virtuosity and sense of musical exploration, these seven newly commissioned works explore openness, improvisation and instrumental extremes. scalar captures this seasoned ensemble at their most musically nuanced, bursting with energy but balancing this explosivity with compelling moments of reflection. As ELISION nears its 40th anniversary, scalar is a testament to the ensemble's ability to tackle the most daunting of musical feats, pushed on by collaborators old and new.

    Golnaz Sharaiatzdeh's Machine Euphoria opens the record with an ecstatic fanfare as oboist Peter Veale relentlessly navigates a variety of multiphonics and flutterings. scalar by Einar Einarsson, as well as Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh's 3,6. take a graphical approach to accessing the 'ELISION sound', leading to two distinct but highly visceral and striking duos. Cat Hope's The Aesthetic of Disappearance and Charlie Sdraulig's Ground both explore more contained and interior musical spaces, the former featuring busier material framed by characteristic slow drones, whilst the latter is a slow, unfolding interplay centered around the communication of minute musical details between the two performers. Mary Bellamy's Enveloped fuses the sonic edges of cello and recorder into a single, more complex whole. Meanwhile, long-time ELISION collaborator Richard Barrett's after weaves together delicate and detailed instrumental gestures with beds of electronic texture, revealing yet more depth to the possible musical worlds that ELISION can conjure from the interplay between score, composer, and ensemble.

    As Evan Johnson writes on ELISION: "There are still things that cannot be done. But there is nothing a composer can imagine that they won't find a way towards... Collectively, these musicians are among the bravest, and the foolhardiest, in the world." scalar speaks to the myriad musical possibilities ELISION explore and their determination to confront the existing limits of contemporary music.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Machine Euphoria
      • 2. Enveloped
      • 3. Ground
      • 4. The Aesthetics of Disappearance
      • 5. 3,6.
      • 6. after
      • 7. scalar