Jon Balke - Discourses [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.Jon Balke's solo recordings comprise a special subset of his work, informed by the improvisational daring and compositional imagination that has made him one of creative music's most original voices.rrDiscourses is his third solo album, preceded by Book of Velocities (recorded 2006) and Warp (2015). The new album, recorded in sessions in 2019, takes further the integration and juxtaposition of acoustic piano and processed soundscapes introduced on Warp. rrJon Balke's unique solo work blurs distinctions between composition, improvisation and sound design as Discourses further develops the methodology introduced with the Norwegian pianist's Warp album. Integrated in the resonant sound of his piano music are 'layered soundscapes' of processed material which Balke describes as 'distorted reflections and reverberations from the world.' rrUnderpinning the project are some thoughts about language, and the notion of discourse and dialogue as fading concepts in an era of confrontational rhetoric. rrBalke: 'In this work I had the framework of language with me from the beginning. As the political climate hardened in 2019 with more and more polarized speech, the lack of dialogue pointed me towards the terms that constitute the titles for the tracks.'rrDiscourses was recorded at Lugano's Auditorio Stelio Molo in December 2019, and produced by Manfred Eicher.

The Oppostition

The Facilitator

The Container

The Assumptions

The Certainties

The Suspension

The Polarization

The Second Argument

The Why

The Deliberation

The First Argument

The How

The Mutuality

The First Afterthought

The Second Afterthought

The Third Afterthought

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