PRECURSORE DELLA CONTINUOUS
MUSIC, DOPO AVER STUPITO CON “COROLLARIES”,
IL DISCO D’ESORDIO PUBBLICATO NEL 2013, IL PIANISTA PIU’ VELOCE DEL MONDO TORNA
CON UN NUOVO, ATTESO E STRAORDINARIO
ALBUM
LUBOMYR MELNYK
presenta
RIVERS AND STREAMS
il nuovo album in uscita il 27 novembre per Erased
Tapes/Audioglobe
Un disco che cattura sin
dal primo ascolto, un flusso ininterrotto di note che scorrono veloci,
velocissime, con le mani che sembrano muoversi a doppia, tripla velocità. Un susseguirsi
di note continue che portano l’ascoltatore in un magico mondo parallelo, tra la
neoclassica e la più rigida impostazione classica.
Un flusso continuo, come lo
scorrere dell’acqua, un fiume di note in piena. “I found my hands and
arms and everything inside them changing from normal muscle and flesh to
well... water.” – Lubomyr Melnyk.
Prodotto da Robert Raths e
Jamie Perera, “Rivers And Streams” è un’altra piccola ma grande perla
nell’universo della neoclassica, un omaggio alla natura ed alla sua bellezza
per questo straordinario
pianista ucraino settantenne.
“Rivers And Streams” è in uscita il 27 novembre
2015 per l’etichetta d’avanguardia Erased Tapes Records/Audioglobe.
Ascolta e condividi “Parasol”, primo brano tratto da “Rivers And
Streams”:
Lubomyr Melnyk returns with his new album ‘Rivers and Streams’, the
embodiment of his signature style
Ukrainian pianist
Lubomyr Melnyk has often felt that his unique Continuous Music playing is akin
to water – flowing and ever connected. As he further developed his technique,
and the more the notes flowed, the closer to water he felt. “I found my hands and arms and everything
inside them changing from normal muscle and flesh to well... water.” With
his latest album, ‘Rivers and Streams’, Lubomyr focuses deeply on this connection
to water, to the point where the music itself begins to embody its liquid form.
Produced by Robert Raths and Jamie Perera, the album flows
seamlessly from the live recordings of ‘The
Pool of Memories’, captured in a church, to pieces entirely born in the
studio, such as ‘Sunshimmers’ and ‘Ripples in a Water Scene’, which
feature Perera on acoustic and electric guitar. Amorphous, ever-changing,
Lubomyr as performer becomes subsumed into the natural ebb and flow of the keys
as the album drifts between nascent upstream trickles and deeply reflective
passages through winding river valleys. The album reaches its climax in ‘The Amazon’, a 20-minute piece
dedicated to the world’s largest river. Raths invited Korean flautist Hyelim Kim to guest on the first part,
before Lubomyr closes the album with cascades of arpeggio figures, stretching
across the breadth of the keyboard with rapid virtuosity. Following on from
2013’s ‘Corollaries’ album and last
year’s ‘Evertina’ EP, Lubomyr’s
latest offering compounds upon his existing fluid signature style, and breathes
an organic vitality, both nuanced and thoughtful.
"In the
body of the Continuous Piano Master, the fingers and the hands turn into Water,
Air and Stone. These are the three manifestations of the Continuous Technique.
And for the Continuous Pianist, the fingers physically transform the music into
one of these three elements. The greatest of all miracles in the universe is
Water. It is also, I believe, the rarest of all physical things in the
universe. Water is the most magical and the most mysterious of all things we
know! And so I dedicate this album to the Rivers and Streams of this world – in
gratitude for their Beauty!“ –
Lubomyr Melnyk. The cover artwork shows the surface of vines captured with macro
photography by French artist Marion Benoit, which Lubomyr discovered in
early 2015 as the perfect visual counterpart.
ABOUT LUBOMYR
MELNYK:
Lubomyr Melnyk is a true innovator, exploring new directions for
contemporary music. Classically trained and greatly affected by the minimalist
movement in the early 1970s, the Ukrainian pianist developed his own unique
language for the piano, named after the principle of maintaining a continuous,
unbroken stream of sound. Melnyk has shown a remarkable devotion to the
instrument, always striving to discover new ways of composing music in the
continuous mode. His focus is on the actual sound of the piano as much as the
harmonies and melodies of the music. Playing rapid and complex note patterns
made Lubomyr one of the world’s fastest concert pianists. His virtuoso piano
technique forms overtones that blend, collide or even create new melodies in
rare moments, and thereby shape the composition beyond its original form. To
accomplish this requires a special technique, one that has taken Melnyk many
years to master.
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