Artist: Paul Jarret/Karin Johansson/Donovan Von Martens
Title: Hémisphère/Hemisfär
Label: Havtorn Records
Cat nr: HR087
Format: CD
Style: Jazz/Impro
Tracklist:
1. Clairsemé 06:31
2. Det är sent nu 05:33
3. Tiden 05:47
4. La Murmuration des Oiseaux 02:56
5. Snåren 03:07
6. I det Förflutna 03:45
7. Les Traces Visibles 01:16
8. Dans un Moment 01:55
9. Fondre 03:21
10. Skuggsång 04:00
11. Frost 02:56
12. L’Aube 05:45
13. Sfär 05:30
The music is never the same. It verifies its positions and conditions, its peculiar way of listening to the cavities, the motions started, the tensions between sound and silence, tone and memory. Nature is present not only as trees and clouds, light and shadows. It is a readiness for what is constantly changing, a heightened awareness on the minimal variations in the materials and processes at hand, what it means to slowly examine a rough surface, the transformation of a rhythm, a melodic phrase emerging and disappearing.
The fact that the three musicians are playing one string instrument each, has for certain its significance. The three members of the trio communicate and put questions to each other, through the experimental playing techniques used. The 13 tracks that constitute the album Hémisphère consist of a series of concentrated and condensed situations, defined by the vibrations arising on and beside the strings, through different sets of preparations and interferences. And now and then what is created start to sound like completely different instruments, as if somebody played the clarinet or was blowing a bamboo. The room of nature is widened and the music travels, from day to night and back to the light of day.
Improvisation becomes composition and composition becomes sound painting in a way that triggers the imagination and the unbounded exploration of sounds. You can hear echoes from the minimalism of Morton Feldman, the freeform playing of Derek Bailey, the impressionism of Claude Debussy. But the sharpness of the music is not the result of stylistic purity. It is has to do with the open and free attitude to what it means to make music together.
/ Magnus Haglund, writer and critic, Gothenburg
The fact that the three musicians are playing one string instrument each, has for certain its significance. The three members of the trio communicate and put questions to each other, through the experimental playing techniques used. The 13 tracks that constitute the album Hémisphère consist of a series of concentrated and condensed situations, defined by the vibrations arising on and beside the strings, through different sets of preparations and interferences. And now and then what is created start to sound like completely different instruments, as if somebody played the clarinet or was blowing a bamboo. The room of nature is widened and the music travels, from day to night and back to the light of day.
Improvisation becomes composition and composition becomes sound painting in a way that triggers the imagination and the unbounded exploration of sounds. You can hear echoes from the minimalism of Morton Feldman, the freeform playing of Derek Bailey, the impressionism of Claude Debussy. But the sharpness of the music is not the result of stylistic purity. It is has to do with the open and free attitude to what it means to make music together.
/ Magnus Haglund, writer and critic, Gothenburg
released November 22, 2024
Paul Jarret — guitar / prepared guitar
Karin Johansson — piano / prepared piano
Donovan Von Martens — double bassRecorded and mixed by Martin Öhman
at Skogen Studio, Österbymo
Mastered by Linus Andersson
at Elementstudion, Gothenburg
Cover art by Ingerborg Zackariassen
Cover layout by Donovan Von MartensHR087 © 2024 Havtorn Records
Paul Jarret — guitar / prepared guitar
Karin Johansson — piano / prepared piano
Donovan Von Martens — double bassRecorded and mixed by Martin Öhman
at Skogen Studio, Österbymo
Mastered by Linus Andersson
at Elementstudion, Gothenburg
Cover art by Ingerborg Zackariassen
Cover layout by Donovan Von MartensHR087 © 2024 Havtorn Records
