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Zajc, Rebeka Rusjan

Introducing Rebeka Rusjan Zajc

Zajc, Rebeka Rusjan : Introducing Rebeka Rusjan Zajc (Clean Feed)

Clean Feed introduces listeners to Slovenian pianist living and working in Amsterdam, Rebeka Rusjan Zajc, through 5 CD-length "Piano Operas" of real-time compositions recorded in the studio — Fictus; Functio; Factum; Fabula; Furor — each illuminating aspects of the virtuosic artist's unique take on the tradition of solo improvised piano.
 

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UPC: 5609063006803

Label: Clean Feed
Catalog ID: CF680CD
Squidco Product Code: 35084

Format: 5 CDs
Condition: New
Released: 2024
Country: Portugal
Packaging: 5 CD Box Set
Recorded at Power Sound Studio in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on November 21st, 2023, January 23rd, 2024, September 19th, 2023, and February 27th, 2024, by Paul Pouwer and Joris Wolff.

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"Those fortunate enough to experience the elysian enchantments of Prelude, this year's fascinating debut full-length by Rebeka Rusjan Zajc, will already have fallen under the enigmatic charm-spells cast by the Slovenian pianist's imaginative amalgams of jazz and chamber music.

Clean Feed's new boxset, Introducing Rebeka Rusjan Zajc, elaborates on the intrinsic otherworldliness of that collection while illuminating further dimensions of its virtuosic artist's wonderfully singular takes on the solo piano tradition.

Across five captivating albums, recorded between September 19, 2023 and February 27, 2024 at the Power Sound Studio in Amsterdam, Zajc unfurls her series of cursive 'operas', a succession of sublime real-time compositions, candid zonas of profound expression, examination and performative poise, fraught with all the drama, mystery and movement of the theatrical form.

While Prelude seemed to condense time via a focused lens, here it flows like a river (or stream-of-consciousness, perhaps), with Zajc's cascading notes fashioning endless glistening tessellations and varicoloured purling starbursts, only to instantly divert, warp and shift, dancing on the bubbling currents of Zajc's inspiration like so many audacious skipping stones.

And yet, despite the reinvigorating rush of this constant renewal, nothing on Introducing feels hurried or tentative. The cumulative power of this landmark release allows Zajc to reveal the clues to her gnostic codes in daringly reflecvtive increments, allowing the listener to gradually acclimatise themselves to the music's protean riddle.

Returning once more to that precious lens, with undaunted vision and dazzlingly versatile technique, Zajc preserves the perpetual flux of her restless moods, modes and ideas in a musical aspic, as each evolving pattern, phrase and individual tone inhabits its own delightful Proustian microcosm for one more illustrious moment, occasionally blown up to billboard proportions, to be held in perpetuity¼ single precious seconds lasting in a parallel infinitude."-Clean Feed


Artist Biographies

Rebeka Rusjan Zajc, is a Slovenian pianist who lives and works in Amsterdam.

-Rebeka Rusjan Zajc Website (https://www.rebekarusjanzajc.com/)
11/5/2024

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Track Listing:



CD 1



1. Piano Opera I. Fictus 38.54

CD 2



1. Piano Opera II. Functio 38:15

CD 3



1. Piano Opera III. Factum 46:16

CD 4



1. Piano Opera IV. Fabula 38:09

CD 5



1. Piano Opera V. Furor 34:49

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