Adrian Klumpes - Be Still, Album [23/10/06]

Adrian Klumpes - Be Still
(Leaf Label)



Tracklist
01. Cornered
02. Weave In And Out
03. Be Still
04. Alone
05. Unrest
06. Why
07. Exhale
08. Give In
09. Passing Pain

Release Date
23rd October 2006

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Adrian Klumpes - Be Still

Links
Artist: Myspace
Label: Website | Facebook

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Interessante debutto su Leaf del compositore australiano Adrian Klumpes, tra ambient, improvvisazione e post rock.

Like a long exhalation of breath, Adrian Klumpes’ debut solo album arrives with an intuitive sense of calm. But this is no chill out music; Be Still reflects a search for peace in a fractured world. Like a Rothko canvas, Be Still is minimal and introspective, yet rich and intense; a rush of colour from a deliberately limited palette. As Klumpes explains: "Minimalism assumes much more involved actions before and after the event". As a result, the album is vested with a range of emotion: feelings of violence, relief, loneliness, pain and finality are integral to the recordings.

Recorded in a single five-hour session in Klumpes’ hometown of Sydney, all the sounds were captured in the same room, with the same mics, using the same piano. Simultaneously premeditated and spontaneous, the recordings strive for an edgy tranquility.

"I wanted to capture three moments," Klumpes says, "Creation, performance and process. And each of these with a certain stillness." However far from the original performances the subsequent processing diverged, this continuity and focus gives the album a coherence and integrity that belies the subtle manipulation. "It’s about honesty; concentrated awareness," says Klumpes, "a commitment to follow the ideas through without hesitation or pretence."

Edited by Luca EW - 28/3/2013, 00:03