{"product_id":"1171442","title":"Jon Balke - Discourses [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJon 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.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eDiscourses 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. \\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eJon 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.' \\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eUnderpinning the project are some thoughts about language, and the notion of discourse and dialogue as fading concepts in an era of confrontational rhetoric. \\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eBalke: '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.'\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eDiscourses was recorded at Lugano's Auditorio Stelio Molo in December 2019, and produced by Manfred Eicher.\u003cp\u003eThe Oppostition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Facilitator\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Container\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Assumptions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Certainties\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Suspension\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Polarization\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Second Argument\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Why\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Deliberation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe First Argument\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe How\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Mutuality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe First Afterthought\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Second Afterthought\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Third Afterthought\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55132687794561,"sku":"1171442","price":17.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/51bdZj7osJL._SL1500.jpg?v=1767011344","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/1171442","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}