The album contains two suites, with the three-part Pier And Ocean proving a nice overture to lead into the seven-part Hastening Westward. As told in the liner notes, once Schulkowsky had recorded the three solo percussion sections that appear as tracks 3, 5 and 8, ECM's Manfred Eicher revealed that he just happened to have Nils Petter Molvær around, who could be a perfect partner for Schulkowsky's sound.
The trumpeter was brought in on day two of the sessions, and another in a long line of ECM's instant collaborations quickly took shape. Molvær did indeed have the innate sensitivity to the overtones of Schulkowsky's drums, bells and bowed gongs that Eicher had anticipated, and the album pays great rewards to repeat listens. Music for frozen fjords.
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Thank you so much for this, SGTG. One of those seemingly 'lost' ECM one-offs that are truly in a sound-world of their own. And yet another one to add to that other list: of records that by rights, through sheer cinematic suggestiveness (HW Part I!) should have served as soundtrack to a new "2001", "Repulsion" or "Blade Runner".
ReplyDeleteYes, would make a stunning soundtrack!
Deletethanks for this and the stunt..man
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ReplyDeleteI have been revisiting NPM works these days.
thanks a lot!!!
Big fan of Molvaer since his debut Khmer. This one I had no idea about but if he's involved its going to be a sure bet I will probably embrace it. Thank you!
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