The first recording of an ongoing collaboration between violinist Maya Bennardo, bass clarinetist Erik Blennow Calälv, and kacapi (similar to a Japanese koto) musician Kristofer Svensson, presenting two restrained and lovely compositions bringing together contemporary classical, free improvisation and Sundanese music in a unique chamber format.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2022 Country: Sweden Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Recorded at Atlantis Grammofon, in Stockholm, Sweden, in Janurary, 2022, by Niclas Lindstrom.
"Two Skies is the first recording of an ongoing collaboration between violinist Maya Bennardo, bass clarinetist Erik Blennow Calälv, and kacapi musician Kristofer Svensson. Bringing together different musical praxis-contemporary classical, free improvisation, and Sundanese music-the result is a hybrid form of chamber music between composition and improvisation. The sounds are deeply anchored in justly tuned modalities, while freely engaged in their momentary complexities."-Thanatosis
"The kacapi (Sundanese: ᮊᮎᮕᮤ) is a traditional zither of Sundanese people in Indonesia. This musical instrument is derived from Chinese guzheng, same as the Japanese koto, the Mongolian yatga, the Korean gayageum, the Vietnamese đàn tranh and the Kazakh jetigen. The kacapi played as the main accompanying instrument in the Tembang Sunda or Mamaos Cianjuran, kacapi suling (tembang Sunda without vocal accompaniment) genre (called kecapi seruling in Indonesian), pantun stories recitation or an additional instrument in Gamelan Degung performance.
The word kacapi in Sundanese also refers to santol tree, from which initially the wood is believed to be used for building the zither instrument."-Wikipedia