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Livk, Gasper: Introducing Gasper Livk (Clean Feed)

A 5-CD Box set introducing the work of double bassist and composer Gašper Livk in five configurations — Gašper Livk Trio; Gašper Livk Duo; Gašper Livk Large Ensemble; Gašper Livk Double Bass Octet; and Gašper Livk Solo — released to coincide with his artist-in-residence appearance at the 2024 Jazz Festival Ljubljana.
 

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Gasper Livk-double bass, composition

Chaerin Im-piano

Agota Tamelyte-piano

Giovanni Iacovella-drums, cymbals

Seppe Gebruers-piano, composition

Matteo Paggi-piano

Urban Megusar-piano

Martina Effy-piano

Madalena Massano-piano

Dima Loginov-piano

Manuel Giner-piano

Yifan Du-piano

Kasparas Petkus-piano

Ignacio Pinto-double bass, composition

Anna Zavorina-double bass, composition

Alejandra Rony Rojas-double bass, composition

Pietro Elia Barcellona-double bass, composition

Sofia Perikleous-double bass, composition

Liam Elion-double bass, composition

Jennifer Maria Blom-double bass, composition


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UPC: 5609063006810

Label: Clean Feed
Catalog ID: CF681CD
Squidco Product Code: 35083

Format: 5 CDs
Condition: New
Released: 2024
Country: Portugal
Packaging: Box Set - 5 CDs
CD 1 recorded at Power Sound Studio, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on 21st, November 22nd 2022, September 25th, 26th 2023 by Paul Pouwer.

CD 2 recorded at Power Sound Studio, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on October 24th 2023 by Paul Pouwer.

CDS 3, 4 and 5 recorded at Wisseloord Studios, in Hilversum, The Netherlands, on February 6th, 2024, February 19th, 2024, and January 29th and 30th, 2024, by Alessandro Mazzieri.

Descriptions, Reviews, &c.

"Sensational Slovenian composer and double-bassist Gašper Livk is the richly deserving subject of an audacious five-album anthology, released by Clean Feed to coincide with a much-anticipated artist-in-residence appearance at this year's Jazz Festival Ljubljana.

Recorded between 2022-2024, Introducing Gašper Livk harnesses this extraordinary musician's remarkable breadth of vision and interminable chops, showcasing his disparate works for solo, duo and trio configurations, as well as a remarkable piano-loaded large ensemble and double-bass octet.

Each album here presents another compelling aspect of Livk's already abundant and singular oeuvre, revealing ancillary layers of meaning and mood via exquisite forms palpitating with thought and spirit, articulating vividly textured traceries where immediate surface complexities reward further listening with a surfeit of fearless delights, boundless atmospheres and immersive labyrinthine narratives.

Introducing Gašper Livk represents a truly significant inauguration, presenting the profuse music of its inspired architect via physical format for the very first time, a sensitively-curated boxed set giving full disclosure of a prodigious talent whose emergence on the scene will have valuable repercussions for many decades to come."-Clean Feed


Artist Biographies

"Seppe Gebrue‍‍‍rs (°9/05/1990) is a Belgian pianist, improviser and composer.

The improv music scene is already acquainted with his name, due to his delivered work in several adventurous projects like the large ensemble 'Ifa y xango', the piano duo with Erik Vermeulen, named 'Antiduo, Bambi Pang Pang featuring the legendary Andrew Cyrille, his Solo and the trio with the pioneer Paul Lovens and Hugo Antunes (Seppe, Hugo and Paul).

His approach is far from traditional. Last years he decided to play two pianos tuned in quarter-tones.

In this way he can explore microtonal music and confront the tuning in western world music orthodoxy.

It will be first heard on a recording to be released (2018) with t‍‍‍he trio Seppe, Hugo and Paul.

Seppe is also doing electronic live-processing with projects like Keenroh featuring Paul Lytton, Glin Fraktion and Ifa y Xa‍‍‍ngo Tentet. He is also playing church organ in a duo with Joachim Badenhorst.

Besides that Gebruers plays the piano in a improv trio with trumpeter Luis Vicente (Pt) and drummer Onno Govaert (NL).

In 2013, he graduated - Summa cum laude - from Antwerp conservatory, where he enjoyed a jazz education (with a.o. Erik Vermeulen as his teacher), as well as a classical schooling (tutored by a.o. Levente Kende).

Read more about Seppe Gebruers's projects and recordingsOver the years, he wrote accompanying music for plays (with strong musical accents), such as 'Omtrent Othello' (Concerni‍‍‍ng Othello), 'Wanneer de paarden sterven' (When the horses pass away) and '4:3' from 'Tibaldus'. Gebruers composed also the music of 2 Short films by Pieter Dumoulin 'Het zwijgen van Helena' and 'The Reconstruction' (directed together with Timeau Dumoulin).

Since the age of twelve, Seppe Gebruers plays at home and abroad. Starting with his piano trio, 'Jazzfact' (together with Nathan Wouters and Jakob Warmenbol)and later he performed with ‍‍‍

musicians such as Nate Wooley(US), Jim Black (US), Andrew D'Angelo (US), John Dikeman(us), Onno Govaert(NL), Seijiro Murayama(J), Léo Dupleix (Fr), Richard Comte (fr), Nicolas Field, Eric Thielemans,‍‍‍ Teun Verbruggen, Robin Verheyen, Joachim Badenhorst, Johan Graden (SE), Jasper Stadhouders (NL) and many others.

Seppe Gebruers is also a founder and the‍‍‍ artistic leader of Troika vzw and did numerous collaborations with el NEGOCITO Records and Citadelic."

-Troika vzw (https://troikavzw.com/seppegebruers-about)
10/2/2024

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"Pietro Elia Barcellona is an Italian contrabassist, composer and improviser currently based in the Netherlands, where he is active in the fields of experimental music involving both improvising and performing written material.

In the field of new music, Pietro has premiered works of composers such as Frank Denyer, collaborating with Amsterdam-based Ensemble Scordatura, and Robin Engel as first double bass of the Junger Künstler Bayreuth Orchestra; as well as performing in festivals such as Gaudeamus, Amsterdam Viola Festival and Doek Festival. Pietro has also played as a soloist for Sebastian Gramss' BasseMasse Sizilien Orchestra as part of Curva Minore in Palermo. Pietro has studied with teachers such Dario Calderone and Ernst Glerum and his repertoire includes composers such as Giacinto Scelsi, Stefano Scodanibbio, Salvatore Sciarrino. Pietro has also received lessons in contemporary chamber music from Helen Hulst and Nick Sterling, members of Nieuw Amsterdams Peil.

As an improviser Pietro has performed with numerous formations. He is co-leader of Fade in Trio, an ensemble focused on exploring ways of mixing Carnatic rhythms, free improvisation and unconventional techniques. The trio was among the winners of "Tomorrow's Jazz Prize" in Venice in 2021. Pietro is also a member of Moving Air Ensemble, an immersive project involving a kinetic sound installation combined with an acoustic ensemble. Furthermore, he is a member of Stab Freeze Collective (a sound painting ensemble), All Strings (an improvised music series of only string instruments players).

As a composer Pietro is interested in exploring the boundaries of composition and improvisation as well as the relationship between musical gesture and rhythm. Pietro is founder and co-leader of Ensemble Mellonta, a collective devoted to the performance of contemporary music and new compositions for which he also composes."

-Ulysses Network (https://ulysses-network.eu/profiles/individual/29569/)
10/2/2024

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Track Listing:



CD1



1. CODA I. 2024 49:34

CD2



1. CODA II. 2023 33:57

CD3



1. CODA. III 2022 42:33

CD4



1. CODA IV. 2021 46:43

CD5



1. CODA V. 2020 36:03

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