The title of this new album by Vanessa Wagner refers to John Cage's Imaginary Landscape (1939), one of the first works to use electronic devices. After all, when Cage wrote his manifesto The Future of Music in the late 1930s, he already knew that the merging of written and electronic music would bear exquisite fruits.
The album is the lone protuberance from 2016 album Statea, on which Wagner, alongside producer Murcof (she on the piano, him manning the machines), reinterpreted pieces from the fathers of minimalism: Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass, Morton Feldman, Erik Satie, or John Cage.
The same secret conversation between the artist, the piano, and contemporary music is now continuing on Inland. Making more with less, the album turns long harmonies into multicolored prisms, miniature detailed embroidery, sighs and breaths, syncopated or restrained chants. In this brave new world, sounds exist for themselves, and silence comes to life.
While the repertoire remains in the minimalistic vein, it gives priority to living composers, of which almost all are still active.
Title: Inland
Format: CD
Release Date: 26 Apr 2019
Artist: Vanessa Wagner
Sku: 2425889
Catalogue No: IF1050CD
Category: Classical
DISC 1
Für Fritz (Chaconne In A Minor) - Moondog
Louella - Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch
Ornament 2 - Bryce Dessner
Ornament 3 - Bryce Dessner
Etude N°9 - Philip Glass
Quiet Rhythms: Prologue And Action N°9 - William Susman
Railroad (Travel Song) - Meredith Monk
The Heart Asks Pleasure First - Michael Nyman
Das Buch Der Klänge, Part 2 - Hans Otte
Hudson Cycle - Nico Muhly
Ramble On Cortona - Gavin Bryars
Elf Dance - Moondog
Struggle For Pleasure - Wim Mertens
Balta - Peteris Vasks
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