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Masing / Lin / Tallone / Rodrigues / Zek: Buratino (Creative Sources)

A quintet of strings, hurdy gurdy, and amplified objects from Elo Masing on violin, Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Hui-Chun Lin on cello, Caroline Cecilia Tallone on hurdy gurdy, objects, and Ame Zek on 12 string guitar, objects, recording in the studio for this 5 part improvisation, the hurdy-gurdy adding sustained mystery to a balance of subdued and assertive interaction.
 

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Elo Masing-violin

Ernesto Rodrigues-viola

Hui-Chun Lin-cello

Caroline Cecilia Tallone-hurdy gurdy, objects

Ame Zek-12 string guitar, objects


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UPC: 5609063405705

Label: Creative Sources
Catalog ID: cs570
Squidco Product Code: 26717

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2018
Country: Portugal
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded at Studio Tonus Arcus, Zepernick, Germany, on May 7th, 2018.

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"[...] Also recorded by Petzold in Berlin this past May was Buratino, an album featuring Ernesto Rodrigues without either Guilherme or the former (at least not actively playing), but including previous collaborators Elo Masing (violin, from Crane Cries) & Hui-Chun Lin (cello, most recently mentioned here around Poiesis in May) to form a string trio that is further bolstered by Caroline Cecilia Tallone (hurdy-gurdy) & Ame Zek (12-string guitar). Neither of the latter had appeared in this space before (nor had the hurdy-gurdy at all, apparently), although Zek does have a solo album recently out on Creative Sources (First Bow, "dedicated to fight and fighters against corrupt capitalism"), and of course both also involve strings:

Buratino thus employs an unusual string quintet, with the hurdy-gurdy providing "bowed" sustaining potential (acoustically, rather than electronically), and includes some new collaborators for Rodrigues. (And perhaps I should add a remark on recent digital-only release Efterår, pairing the two Rodrigueses & Masing in a quintet, this time with Tomo Jacobson on bass & Mia Dyberg on alto sax, neither of whom had appeared in this space previously: It's yet another appealing album, sometimes aggressive after starting on harmonics, and also apparently focusing on mental or emotional transition for the listener via a variety of evocations amid wave-like explorations of continuity - although it's rather short. I also feel compelled to note that it already appeared on Bandcamp the day after it was recorded, in Berlin, this month!)

So Buratino consists of five tracks - totaling very close to an hour, and arranged as 3+2, as if two sides of an LP - and ranges from searing aggression to haunting (bizarre, sometimes naturalistic) mystery. Adding the hurdy-gurdy & (unusual) guitar yields more timbral variety, and the wealth of sonic interactions here include some of the most striking & unusual among those assembled on the set of four string albums featured in this entry. Not as traditionally contrapuntal as Dis/con/sent, the quintet instead emphasizes a "main line" that is variously accented: High pitches swirl against a drone in the opening, whereas pizzicati or glissandi might be thrown off repeatedly from a low rumble, particularly yielding to hocket & a driving (grinding) continuity on the second "side" (which seems to want to undo or unwind the calm eventually emerging from the first). The striking sounds end up being rather composite (i.e. involving multiple instruments simultaneously), in repeating stable figures, as opposed to e.g. the sense of "timbral spanning" (or disarticulation) of Coluro.

That said, the prolificity & frequent conceptual overlap of these albums does inhibit one in selecting a single item to feature as "special," which of course is not a requirement in this space, but does leave me making these mixed entries: The truth is that if a single one of these albums appeared in a vacuum, I'd probably spend more time on it, but instead I've simply come to expect (yet) more. Such practical circumstances & resulting expectations sometimes make me feel uncomfortable (with my own response), but "comfort" really isn't the point: I actually enjoy & appreciate that Rodrigues releases so many albums with so many different musicians, and don't want to feel as though I'm "penalizing" anyone for doing so!"-Todd McComb's Jazz Thoughts


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Artist Biographies

"Elo Masing is a composer/free improviser of Estonian origin, currently based in London, UK. Her music has been performed internationally by renowned soloists and ensembles and released on the Squeaky Kate and squib-box labels. She has recently been awarded a PhD at the Royal Academy of Music, where she explored the physicality of instrumental performance in chamber music, and with support from the Academy, received private tuition from Rebecca Saunders. Elo is co-director of clapTON ensemble and with composer-improviser Dave Maric forms the free improvisation duo Vicious Circus whose debut album Troglodytes Troglodytes was released to critical acclaim in 2014."

-British Music Collection (https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/composer/elo-masing)
3/13/2024

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"He has been playing the violin for 30 years and in that time has played all genres of music ranging from contemporary music to free jazz and improvised music, live and in the studio.

His main interest shifted towards contemporary improvised and composed music.

The relationship with his instruments is focused in sonic and textural elements.

Electronic music was an early influence on his approach to violin playing, which challenges traditional romantic concepts of the violin/viola through use of preparations and micro tuning.

Active in different settings on the Portuguese scene for free improvised music, both as a collaborator and in leading his own groups.

Music for Dance, Cinema, Video and Performance.

Has created the record label Creative Sources Recordings in 1999, which mainly concentrates on releasing experimental and electro-acoustic music."

-Creative Sources (http://creativesourcesrec.com/creative_artists.html)
3/13/2024

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"Hui-Chun Lin (林惠君), Cello solo player, Performer, composer. born 1979 in Taiwan. Classical piano and cello education. Studied with Professor Peter Bruns at Dresden Conservatory. Postgraduate studies in improvisation with Tilo Augsten at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. Worked as solo cellist and ensemble musician Improvisation, theatre music, contemporary music, dance performance, classical music, world music and cello solo with live electronics. Participated in a workshop with "Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble" at Carnegie Hall in New York 09/2006, also participated the workshop "Dave Douglas: Composition and Improvisation in New York 02/2010" Leipziger Jazztage 2007 (jazz festival) with "Beat Freisens Spelunkenorchester", Conducted an improvisation class at a middle school in Tainan/Taiwan 2008/09 "Artist in Residence" in Cité des Arts Paris 07/2010-01/2011. "Codes" Festival of Traditional and Avant-garde Music in Lublin (Poland) 05/2010. ​The CD Production "The Ballad Of Li Qingzhao And Su Dongpo" won the prize in der Kempener Paterskirche. 08/2015 "Streitraum Extra" with Laio Yiwu at Schaubühne Berlin, 12/2015 Dance/Music Improvisation "Suivre" with Jenny Haack, Jenny Döll, Bettina Neuhaus Musik: Michael Vorfeld - Perkussion, Barnaby Tree, 01/2016. "Improvisation XChange 2016" with Jenny Haack 07/2016 "RARA Festival" Sicily Italy 7/2016 Orchestral Whifftracks - Musik & Geruch, with Berlin Improvisers Orchestra, 09/2016

Hui-Chun Lin is a musician who moves fluidly among work in avantgarde music, world music, jazz and improvisation and also performance. Her repertoire encompasses traditional, experimental and classical music in equal measure. Her musical work is concerned above all with sounding out the intersections, boundaries and connections among genres, epochs and cultures. She is now also a musician, performer and cello teacher in Berlin, since 2011.

Since 2015, she starts to produce her own music, working with the Berlin Music Label "Maybee Records", and making music albums with variable musicians."

-Hui-Chun Lin Website (https://huichunlin.weebly.com/vita-eng.html)
3/13/2024

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"Caroline Cecilia Tallone - hurdy-gurdy & amplified objects. Born in Switzerland, she lives in Berlin and works as sound artist and luthier. Used to live in Cremona and Milano, collaborated and played all over Europe with several italian ensembles, orchestras and singer-songwriters. With a background of classical, antique and folk, she´s now into experimental, electroacoustic and improvised sound."

-Spektrum (https://spektrum.community/events/detail/alphawave-11-caroline-tallone-lan-cao-and-pnyx.html)
3/13/2024

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"Ame Zek (born on the coast of Dalmatia in Croatia) is an electroacoustic musician, guitar player, composer and sound sculptor.

His interests and work are based on experiences in experimental,improvised, electronic,contemporary,acoustic, noise, new and traditional music and field recordings. Instruments, sound sources and tools used in Ame Zek's music practice vary from different types of prepared guitars, acoustic percussions, self made objects, contact microphones,analog modular synthesizer, amplified feedback speakers, magnetic field microphones and digital midi machines. Since 2006 he is actively participating, collaborating and playing in Berlin different scenes.

In continuous research,use and exposure of micro tonalities ,micro noises and overtones relations of the sonic material Ame Zek's main interest and occupation remain ''the sound" with its unique sonic characteristics.Driven by dissonances and feedback resonances Ame Zek's music world gradually becomes organic dimension.Being constantly on the way of looking for new approaching and developing of his own technics and strategies of music making, he lives and works in Berlin."

-Ame Zek Website (http://amezek.com/)
3/13/2024

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Track Listing:



1. 1-1 10:16

2. 1-2 3:45

3. 1-3 16:13

4. 2-1 19:32

5. 2-2 9:41

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Creative Sources
Improvised Music
Free Improvisation
Electro-Acoustic Improv
European Improvisation, Composition and Experimental Forms
Quintet Recordings
Objects and Home-made Instruments
Stringed Instruments

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