elsewhere

19/12/2023

Ivan Vukosavljević - Ramum Olivae (organ by Francesca Ajossa) from the album Slow Roads (elsewhere 027)

(videography by Flora Reznik, filmed in the church of Midwolde)

https://elsewheremusic.bandcamp.com/album/slow-roads

Slow Roads 2023 (Elsewhere 027)Purchase the album (CD/Digital) via: https://elsewheremusic.bandcamp.com/album/slow-roads (US and international)https://www.pe...

18/12/2023

John Eyles' review of the three latest elsewhere releases.

Five Years of Elsewhere article by John Eyles, published on December 18, 2023 at All About Jazz. Find more Multiple Reviews articles

12/12/2023

Happy to wake up to see a few more nice reviews of three elsewhere titles online. Thanks to Sven Schlijper-Karssenberg, Massimo Ricci and Matthew Blackwell. 🙏

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Jürg Frey - Les Signes Passagers (Keiko Shichijo) (elsewhere 029) by Sven Schlijper-Karssenberg in Vital Weekly

"There's a velvety veil-like quality to the serene sequence of notes, most equally spaces, stressing the equal importance of notes played, and silence left - or made - played, too."

https://vitalweekly.net/1415.html

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Giovanni Di Domenico / Silvia Tarozzi / Emmanuel Holterbach - L’Occhio Del Vedere (elsewhere 024) by Massimo Ricci in Touching Extremes

"Sound and silence are seamlessly complemented, leaving a lot of breathing room for an optimal processing of the trio’s expressive signals."

https://touchingextremes.wordpress.com/2023/12/11/giovanni-di-domenico-silvia-tarozzi-emmanuel-holterbach-locchio-del-vedere/

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Michael Pisaro-Liu - A room outdoors (Guy Vandromme / Luciana Elizondo / Adriaan Severins/ Fabio Gionfrida) (elsewhere 028-2) in The Best Field Recordings of 2023 (listed by Matthew Blackwell)

"It was worth the wait for these definitive recordings of one of Pisaro-Liu’s most important pieces."

https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-of-2023/the-best-field-recordings-of-2023

The year's best sounds captured outside the studio.

11/12/2023

Q&A with Jürg Frey and Keiko Shichijo - 七條恵子 about Les Signes Passagers (elsewhere 029) on the elsewhere site.

“My music is not very rhetorical, and certainly not dramatic, but in the background these emotions sometimes lurk, and in Keiko’s playing you can sense them.” – Jürg Frey

“We talked about a lot of things and really felt like we were creating a sound from scratch together.” – Keiko Shichijo

“My music is not very rhetorical, and certainly not dramatic, but in the background these emotions sometimes lurk, and in Keiko’s playing you can sense them.” – Jürg Frey “ We talked about...

09/12/2023

For Japan: The new and past elsewhere titles are now in stock at Art Into Life. Check them out soon, as they may fly off the shelves quickly.
https://www.art-into-life.com/product-list/1866

30/11/2023

Jürg Frey - Les Signes Passagers (Keiko Shichijo) (elsewhere 029) was featured in The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, November 2023.

Our guide to the month’s crucial classical LPs.

27/11/2023

Michael Pisaro-Liu - A room outdoors (Guy Vandromme / Luciana Elizondo / Adriaan Severins/ Fabio Gionfrida) (elsewhere 028-2) was featured by Matthew Blackwell in The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp this month.

This month's best field recordings to take us from an English pond and the Brazilian rainforest, to the canals of Venice, the Texas panhandle, and beyond.

17/11/2023

A nice 4-star review of Ivan Vukosavljevic - Slow Roads by Job van Schaik in Dagblad van het Noorden.

"The organ sound itself is central, and as a listener you are sometimes moved to tears by the apparent simplicity and melodic splendor that emerges from the Groningen organs." (translated via DeepL)

Op de cover van ‘Slow Roads’ staat een schilderij van Henk Helmantel. En zeven van de acht composities van Ivan Vukosavljević zijn opgenomen op Groningse orgels. Op Soundsofmusic waren de fascinerende, meditatieve klankconstructies voor het eerst live te horen.

09/11/2023

Very nice review of Ivan Vukosavljevic - Slow Roads (elsewhere 027) by Dionys Della Luce in Inactuelles Musiques Singulières.

"An admirable record, all breaths, flourishes and colorful, delicate modulations, tiny, controlled slips on the edge of what some ears would call false notes. The five organs - and the four organists: Tineke Steenbrink, Francesca Ajossa, Jan Hage, Lise Morrison - marvelously sound the approaches to an ineffable world in these compositions, disarming in their apparent simplicity and their true, abundant inner richness." (translated via DeepL)

Compositeur né en Serbie en 1986 et installé à La Haye (Pays-Bas) depuis 2014, Ivan Vukosavljević s'intéresse aussi bien aux guitares électriques, aux musiques bruitistes et électroniques qu'aux instruments occidentaux ou indiens, aux ensembles traditionnels......

04/11/2023

Michael Pisaro-Liu - A room outdoors (Guy Vandromme / Luciana Elizondo / Adriaan Severins/ Fabio Gionfrida) (elsewhere 028-2) CDs are now in stock!

https://www.elsewheremusic.net/store/p118/Michael_Pisaro-Liu_-_A_room_outdoors_%282CD%29.html
https://elsewheremusic.bandcamp.com/album/a-room-outdoors

01/11/2023

Jürg Frey - Les Signes Passagers (Keiko Shichijo - fortepiano) (elsewhere 029) CDs are now available at the elsewhere site and the Bandcamp.

https://www.elsewheremusic.net/store/p121/J%C3%BCrg_Frey_-_Les_Signes_Passagers_%28CD%29_%2Arelease_Nov._1.html

https://elsewheremusic.bandcamp.com/album/les-signes-passagers

(elsewhere 028-2 CDs will be in stock soon, too.)

30/10/2023

Ivan Vukosavljevic - Slow Roads (elsewhere 027) CDs are now available at the elsewhere site and the Bandcamp.

https://www.elsewheremusic.net/store/p115/Ivan_Vukosavljevi%C4%87_-_Slow_Roads_%28CD%29.html
https://elsewheremusic.bandcamp.com/album/slow-roads

13/10/2023

4.5-stars review of Ivan Vukosavljevic - Slow Roads (elsewhere 027) in Orgelnieuws.nl

In deze warme nazomer van 2023 hebben we het vaak over de temperatuur, die iedereen blij maakt. Ook in deze bespreking is temperatuur een kwestie. Alleen hebben we het hier niet over het weer, maar [...]

05/10/2023

Jürg Frey - Les Signes Passagers (Keiko Shichijo - fortepiano) (elsewhere 029) (excerpts) *CD preorder/digital album are available.
https://elsewheremusic.bandcamp.com/album/les-signes-passagers

https://youtu.be/KNp8aZwHxEk?si=HSiTZa23iu5VRluN

*CD and digital album (24bit, 16bit) are available on Bandcamp and the label's site.https://elsewheremusic.bandcamp.com/album/les-signes-passagershttps://www...

05/10/2023

Michael Pisaro-Liu - A room outdoors (Guy Vandromme / Luciana Elizondo / Adriaan Severins/ Fabio Gionfrida) (elsewhere 028-2) (excerpts) *CD preorder/digital album are available.
https://elsewheremusic.bandcamp.com/album/a-room-outdoors

https://youtu.be/olkuQkOEUYA

*CD and digital album (24bit, 16bit) are available on Bandcamp and the label's site.https://elsewheremusic.bandcamp.com/album/a-room-outdoorshttps://www.else...

03/10/2023

Ivan Vukosavljevic - Slow Roads (elsewhere 027) (excerpts)

https://elsewheremusic.bandcamp.com/album/slow-roads

*CD and digital album (24bit, 16bit) are available on Bandcamp and the label's site.https://elsewheremusic.bandcamp.com/album/slow-roadshttps://www.elsewhere...

25/09/2023

Q&A with Ivan Vukosavljevic about Slow Roads

“The breath of pipes, the growl at the very entrance of a note, the richness of sound of a single pipe… these have been eliminated in later organ construction, but are everything that draws me into its sound world.” – Ivan Vukosavljević

“The breath of pipes, the growl at the very entrance of a note, the richness of sound of a single pipe… these have been eliminated in later organ construction, but are everything that draws me...

21/09/2023

Jürg Frey - Les Signes Passagers (Keiko Shichijo) (elsewhere 029) is now available on the elsewhere website and Bandcamp. We accept CD preorders. (CD release: November 1)
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'Les signes passagers' is an album of seven pieces for solo fortepiano written by Jürg Frey in 2021, commissioned by the Amsterdam-based pianist Keiko Shichijo. It was premiered by Shichijo on February 5, 2022 at the Concertgebouw Brugge during the SLOW Festival. In the same year, Shichijo performed the piece again at the November Music 2022 and later recorded it for this album in April 2023 at the Concertgebouw Brugge in the presence of the composer.

“As a listener, I have experienced with music played on early piano instruments for many years. And it has become more and more clear to me how delicate the influence of the sound of the instrument is on the inspiration of the composer."

"If the modern piano tries to get a constant brilliance over the whole keyboard, in the fortepiano there are worlds between the middle, the high and the low register. The whole construction of the instrument is so subtle, and every movement, the slightest change in registers and density of chords immediately opens a variety of colors, new perspectives and emotions.” – Jürg Frey

elsewhere site
https://www.elsewheremusic.net/.../Giovanni_Di_Domenico...https://www.elsewheremusic.net/store/p121/J%C3%BCrg_Frey_-_Les_Signes_Passagers_%28CD%29_%2Arelease_Nov._1.html

Bandcamp
https://elsewheremusic.bandcamp.com/album/les-signes-passagers

7 track album

21/09/2023

Michael Pisaro-Liu - A room outdoors (Guy Vandromme / Luciana Elizondo Music / Adriaan Severins / Fabio Gionfrida) (elsewhere 028-2) is now available on the elsewhere website and Bandcamp. We accept CD preorders. (CD release: November 1)
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'A room outdoors' is a 48 minute piece written in 2006 by Michael Pisaro-Liu for sustaining instrument, harmonium and field recordings. This was the first work in which Pisaro-Liu incorporated field recordings into his score.

This double CD contains two different realizations of the piece, one made in Brussels during the lockdown in April 2020 and one in Cremona, Italy in June 2023. Disc 1 features Guy Vandromme (keyboards) and Adriaan Severins (field recordings and synthesizer), both based in Belgium. Disc 2 features Luciana Elizondo (viola da gamba) and Fabio Gionfrida (field recordings), both based in Italy, in collaboration with Vandromme (Indian harmonium).

“A field is obviously a very different place to play music than a room. But what happens, when one plays in the field, is that it becomes a kind of room.”

“In this piece, the field is brought indoors. In the best realizations (such as the two on these recordings), the piece brings about a reversal, where the walls seem to be on the verge of disappearing.” – Michael Pisaro-Liu

Both versions on the two discs were mastered by Pisaro-Liu.

elsewhere site
https://www.elsewheremusic.net/store/p118/Michael_Pisaro-Liu_-_A_room_outdoors_%282CD%29_%2Arelease_Nov._1.html

Bandcamp
https://elsewheremusic.bandcamp.com/album/a-room-outdoors

4 track album

21/09/2023

Ivan Vukosavljevic - Slow Roads (Tineke Steenbrink / Francesca Ajossa / Jan Hage / Lise Morrison) (elsewhere 027) is now available on the elsewhere website and Bandcamp. (CDs are in stock.)
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'Slow Roads' is an album of eight pieces written by Hague-based Serbian composer Ivan Vukosavljević between 2019 and 2022, for solo 1/4 comma meantone organ. All eight pieces were recorded in 2022 on five different historic organs, dating from the early 16th to mid-17th centuries, located in medieval churches scattered throughout the countryside of the northern Netherlands. Each piece was adapted for a specific organ, as they vary considerably in their disposition. All eight pieces are written in unmeasured notation, with bars removed and only rhythms and phrase contours suggested.

On this album, Vukosavljević adopts a meantone temperament that echoes the sentiments of late medieval and Renaissance keyboard music, while valuing the contemplative aspect of the music, to create organ music as his own voice that resonates with the present time. Five of the eight pieces were performed by Tineke Steenbrink, co-founder of the Dutch early music ensemble Holland Baroque. Francesca Ajossa, Jan Hage and Lise Morrison performed one piece each.

"The Netherlands has one of the liveliest organ cultures in the world, which unfortunately doesn’t communicate too much with the culture of contemporary music, and vice versa. There exist certain categories with borders that are not crossed too often. However, with this organ album I was excited to fully immerse myself in everything that surrounds the organ culture in the Netherlands, in the hope that I would come up with something new and of value."

“The breath of pipes, the growl at the very entrance of a note, the richness of sound of a single pipe…these have been eliminated in later organ construction, but are everything that draws me into its sound world.” – Ivan Vukosavljević

elsewhere site
https://www.elsewheremusic.net/store/p115/Ivan_Vukosavljevi%C4%87_-_Slow_Roads_%28CD%29_%2Arelease_Sept._21.html

Bandcamp
https://elsewheremusic.bandcamp.com/album/slow-roads

8 track album

23/07/2023

For Europe: Soundohm has now restocked the entire Elsewhere catalog. We recommend ordering our CDs from them if you are in Europe to save shipping costs.
https://www.soundohm.com/label/elsewhere

16/07/2023

Happy to announce another one of the three upcoming releases on elsewhere for the fall of 2023.

Jürg Frey - Les Signes Passagers (Keiko Shichijo - fortepiano) (elsewhere 029)

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'Les signes passagers' is an album of seven pieces for solo fortepiano written by Jürg Frey in 2021, commissioned by the Amsterdam-based pianist/fortepianist Keiko Shichijo. It was premiered by Shichijo on February 5, 2022 at the Concertgebouw Brugge during the SLOW Festival. In the same year, Shichijo performed the piece again at the November Music 2022 and later recorded it for this album in April 2023 at the Concertgebouw Brugge in the presence of the composer.

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(To be released on November 1, 2023)

(CD preorders will start on the label’s website and Bandcamp in mid-September.)
www.elsewheremusic.net
https://elsewheremusic.bandcamp.com

16/07/2023

Happy to announce another one of the three upcoming releases on elsewhere for the fall of 2023.

Michael Pisaro-Liu - A room outdoors (Guy Vandromme / Adriaan Severins / Luciana Elizondo / Fabio Gionfrida) (elsewhere 028-2)

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'A room outdoors' is a 48 minute piece written in 2006 by Michael Pisaro-Liu for sustaining instrument, harmonium and field recordings. This was the first work in which Pisaro-Liu incorporated field recordings into the score.

This double CD contains two different realizations of the piece, one made in Brussels during the lockdown in 2020 and one set up in Cremona in 2023, realized by the following artists: Disc 1 features Belgium-based Guy Vandromme (keyboards) and Adriaan Severins (field recordings and synthesizer), Disc 2 features Italy-based Luciana Elizondo (viola da gamba) and Fabio Gionfrida (field recordings), in collaboration with Guy Vandromme (Indian harmonium).

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(To be released on November 1, 2023)

(CD preorders will start on the label’s website and Bandcamp in mid-September.)
www.elsewheremusic.net
https://elsewheremusic.bandcamp.com

16/07/2023

Happy to announce one of the three upcoming releases on elsewhere for the fall of 2023.

Ivan Vukosavljevic - Slow Roads (elsewhere 027)

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'Slow Roads' is an album of eight pieces written by Hague-based Serbian composer Ivan Vukosavljević between 2019 and 2022, for solo 1/4 comma meantone organ. All eight pieces were recorded in 2022 on five different historic organs, dating from the early 16th to mid-17th centuries, located in medieval churches scattered throughout the countryside of the northern Netherlands.

Five of the eight pieces were performed by Tineke Steenbrink, co-founder of the Dutch early music ensemble Holland Baroque. Francesca Ajossa, Jan Hage and Lise Morrison performed one piece each.

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(To be released on November 1, 2023)

(CD preorders will start on the label’s website and Bandcamp in mid-September.)
www.elsewheremusic.net
https://elsewheremusic.bandcamp.com

06/07/2023

Thank you Roof Bolt for this nice review of Jürg Frey: Continuité, fragilité, résonance (Quatuor Bozzini / Konus Quartett).

Photo by Annette Boutellier Continuité, fragilité, résonance by Jürg Frey (Quatuor Bozzini / Konus Quartett) Sometimes a name is also an explanation, and so it is with Continuité Fragilité Résonance....

28/06/2023

Thanks to Claude Colpaert for his review of the three latest elsewhere releases (024, 025, 026) in R***e & Corrigée #136. 🙏
https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=10741&menu=3

21/06/2023

Very good review of Quentin Tolimieri 'Monochromes' (elsewhere 022-3) by YazmeenDessertRose on Rate Your Music.

https://rateyourmusic.com/music-review/YazmeenDessertRose/quentin-tolimieri/monochromes/200240364

29/05/2023

Marc Medwin's review of Jürg Frey: Continuité, fragilité, résonance (Quatuor Bozzini / Konus Quartett) in Point of Departure.

https://www.pointofdeparture.org/PoD83/PoD83MoreMoments2.html

27/05/2023

Ben Harper's review of two recent releases by Jürg Frey, including 'Continuité, fragilité, résonance' (Quatuor Bozzini / Konus Quartett) (elsewhere 026).

Jürg Frey just turned seventy, which might mark a time to take stock of his work so far. It seems to describe a process of steady development, gradually transforming without any sudden turns. Two new releases focusing on recent ensemble works confirm this view: Borderland Melodies on Another Timbre...

09/05/2023

Two nice reviews of Germaine Sijstermans / Koen Nutters / Reinier van Houdt 'Circles, Reeds, and Memories' by Dionys Della Luce in Inactuelles Musiques Singulière, and by Keith Prosk in harmonic series 1/28.

Dionys Della Luce review
https://inactuelles.over-blog.com/2023/05/germaine-sijstermans/koen-nutters/reinier-van-houdt-circles-reeds-and-memories.html

Keith Prosk review
https://www.harmonicseries.org/p/128

This issue of harmonic series 1/28 also includes Keith Prosk's review of Jürg Frey: Continuité, fragilité, résonance (Quatuor Bozzini / Konus Quartett).

Thanks, Dionys and Keith!

Ce disque rassemble trois compositions de compositeurs néerlandais différents : Linden (2020) de la clarinettiste et compositrice Germaine Sijstermans ; A Piece with Memories (2017) du compositeur, écrivain, organisateur Koen Nutters, dont les liens avec...

26/04/2023

Two insightful reviews of Giovanni Di Domenico / Silvia Tarozzi / Emmanuel Holterbach 'L'Occhio Del Vedere' and Jürg Frey 'Continuité, fragilité, résonance' (Quatuor Bozzini / Konus Quartett) by Franco De Angelis in Percorsi Musicali.

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L'Occhio Del Vedere
https://www.percorsimusicali.eu/2023/04/22/giovanni-di-domenico-silvia-tarozzi-emmanuel-holterbach-locchio-del-vedere/

"The music contained in L’Occhio Del Vedere can induce the listener into a hypnagogic state, and that is the drowsy phase that precedes falling asleep, characterized by a particular fluctuating state of consciousness and the vague and fuzzy character of thoughts. Although there are many other examples of compositions and/or improvisations with similar effects, L’Occhio Del Vedere is distinguished by the tuning of the violin, the role of percussion, and the harmony of the piano: in short, by the uniqueness of the musicians who compose it."

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Continuité, fragilité, résonance
https://www.percorsimusicali.eu/2023/04/22/jurg-frey-continuite-fragilite-resonance/

"The composition could be very briefly summarized in this sentence: how selecting a limited set of elements leads to surprising timbral and harmonic possibilities."

"Frey teaches us that it is possible to work with pivotal elements belonging to any music without the need to exaggerate them to make them new."

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(Full articles are available by subscription only. For English and other languages, I recommend using DeepL).

24/04/2023

Composer/pianist Quentin Tolimieri will play a solo piano concert at Cafe Oto tomorrow (Tuesday). Check it out if you are around.

Great double-header featuring Berlin-based composer and pianist, Quentin Tolimieri and UK composer, Lawrence Dunn. Funded by Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe

22/04/2023

For Japan: three new elsewhere CDs (024, 025, 026) are now available at Art Into Life (also at ftarri shop).
https://www.art-into-life.com/product-list/1866
https://www.ftarri.com/suidobashi/index.html

18/04/2023

Another beautiful review by Michele Palozzo on Esoteros about Germaine Sijstermans / Koen Nutters / Reinier van Houdt 'Circles, Reeds, and Memories' (in Italian and English).

"With the spontaneity that can only come from a discipline nurtured over long years of practice, Circles, Reeds, and Memories strikes its own ecstatic balance between new drone composition and the poignant fatality of late AMM-style improvisations: not a single sound is superfluous, and none of them could have been left out for the encounter between the sensibilities and vibrant voices of Sijstermans, Nutters and van Houdt to reach such an intense fulfillment."

Elsewhere, 2023 experimental, contemporary classical (ENGLISH TEXT BELOW) ‘Coltivare insieme la solitudine’: un po’ troppo melenso, come titolo per una pubblicazione di questo profilo, ma se fossi …