Wednesday, 27 September 2023

VDE // Various Artists

 


Soudan Pays des Nouba

Sudan, music from. || Nubian Music, Field Recordings

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The true beauty of running an archive page is that it serves as a reminder that art has an interesting concept, where a collection of musical performances such as this one, can showcase a distorted replication of someone else's musical experience of the past, whether you picked it up physically, discovered it through browsing the internet, or even in the midst of the creation of the project. Practically, everything you hear whether thou-self is the creator or responder, the composite of sounds and frequencies have been heard before, it's now your choice to observe and indulge within your personal conceptualisation of the art that was placed in front of your eyes and ears. In respect to the album, Sudan couldn't be further away from where I live, the cultural and ethnical differences are too vast to compare. However, music will continue to serve its purpose, an artistic and cultural representation of numerous persona's splashing paint on the earth's canvas, all with different brushes, varying in texture, size, and colour. We are all different, the music may objectively sound the same, but we all hear interpret art in response to our connection to it, personally, this thing is a stellar release. 

★★½

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Tuesday, 26 September 2023

Claudio Monteverdi

 


Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda / Three Madrigals

Performed by; Mainzer Kammerorchester; Günter Kehr

Classical Music || Baroque Period, Madrigals
 
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"Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda" serves as one of Monteverdi's most important pieces within his catalogue of compositions and Madrigal's, an early example of cantata dramatic, vividly capturing the tragic combat of Tancredi and Clorinda, a war between a Christian knight and Saracen warrior. Powerful and emotive vocal performances with beautiful string and harpsichord accompaniment. The three madrigals; SV 117, SV 139, & SV 163c offer some of Monteverdi's most gorgeous, emotionally driven and poignant moments within his repertoire. Günter Kehr and his Mainzer Kammerorchester perform these pieces exceptionally, except for the parts where it doesn't. 

★½

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