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Chattering Birds

Leonie Klein, ISANIE Percussion Duo

Chattering Birds
This is a masterful disc of challenging music that brims with the excitement obvious in its creation and execution. The music and the playing are completely matched, both rife with intensity...

Chattering Birds

Leonie Klein, ISANIE Percussion Duo

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This is a masterful disc of challenging music that brims with the excitement obvious in its creation and execution. The music and the playing are completely matched, both rife with intensity...

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Undisputedly brilliant in jazz and rock at all times, the percussion in all its diversity is proving more and more predestined for new music. Leonie Klein, a stirring artist in this field, offers here, partly in duo with Isao Nakamura, a compact, carefully compiled selection of today's music for percussion instruments. A solo version of Peter Eotvos's percussion concerto 'Speaking Drums' is performed in true virtuoso style by the interpreter, with the voice of the percussionist joining the sounds of the drums. Vinko Globokar's 'Dialog uber Erde' experimentally exposes instruments to water, even in a small aquarium - a subtly elemental event. In Sara Glojnaric’s 'Latitudes #2', the soloist on the drum set then enters into a breathtakingly virtuoso duel with artificial rhythm impulses from the tape. In Dai Fujikura's 'Chattering Birds', the duo gives an astonishing demonstration of how much music is possible while radically reduced to finger cymbals. In Ursula Mamlok's 'Variations and Interludes', again arranged for solo by Leonie Klein, the form emerges between the groups of instruments, and Hosokawa's 'Windscapes' explores the contrast between vertical accent beats and horizontal sweeping and scratching sounds. And finally, Uros Rojko's 'Ritem kože', after many changes of perspective, constitutes the aesthetically homogeneous virtuoso conclusion to this album.

Contents and tracklist

I. Variation 1
Track length1:11
II. Interlude 1
Track length0:15
III. Variation 2
Track length0:45
IV. Interlude 2
Track length0:10
V. Variation 3
Track length1:30
VI. Interlude 3
Track length0:10
VII. Variation 4
Track length0:52
VIII. Interlude 4
Track length0:18
IX. Variation 5
Track length1:18

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Sep/Oct 2023

This is a masterful disc of challenging music that brims with the excitement obvious in its creation and execution. The music and the playing are completely matched, both rife with intensity and vigor.
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