Pianist and composer Dante Boon performs his own work "Years, Numbers", alongside Antoine Beuguer's "Pour Etre Seul(e), Sans Reserve" and Taylan Susam's "Tombeau", and Bueger's "Nov. (piano)", four works of graceful and introspective beauty using minimal approaches to tone, chord, or spaciousness, recorded live at University Of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2014.
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Dante Boon-piano
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UPC: 4011778041009
Label: Edition Wandelweiser Records
Catalog ID: EWR 1804
Squidco Product Code: 25914
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2018
Country: Germany
Packaging: Cardstock 3 page foldover in vinyl sleeve
Recorded at the University Of Wisconsin-Whitewater, in Whitewater, Wisconsin, on September 25th and 26th, 2014, by Jeff Heriott.
"I've had the very good fortune, twice, to attend solo piano recitals by Dante Boon, once several years ago in Amsterdam and more recently in Brooklyn. Each occasion was and extremely special, highly rewarding event, Boon playing works from Wandelweiser composers, transforming the space into a kind of temple. After the Amsterdam concert, I wondered if ever two hours of music had contained so few notes, yet so much beauty.
This recording is very similar to a Boon recital, consisting of a long work from Antoine Beuger, two shorter ones by Boon himself and a piece by Taylan Susam, each just so impressive, so thoughtful, so human. How to describe Beuger's 'pour être seul(e), sans réserve' (2009)? The softest of notes, high on the keyboard, individual, barely struck, more like caressed, open the work, isolated, glimmering. Some eight minutes in, simple chords, slightly bitter, more "aware", occur in sets of three, high-low-high, again hanging in small clusters, their beads reflecting something of the confusion of the earth below. It expands from there, shifting patterns, seemingly based purely on intuition rather than any system, always maintaining that ineffable delicacy that somehow remains grounded in the world. The music returns to single notes, eventually shading somewhat lower, slowly wafting to ground. Such deep, probing work, both in conception and execution.
Boon's 'years, numbers' (2012) uses a set of four tones, structured A-B-B-A where one note is constant, while another is added (or not), the duration of each varied with immense subtlety throughout (and interrupted midway through by a sequence of two-chord patterns). The combination of simplicity and slight variation works wonderfully as do the pitch choices made, imparting a melancholic, perhaps nostalgic air, as if the composer is thinking of a past bittersweet event, playing it back in his head, subjecting it to different possibilities, ways things might have gone. The brief 'nov. (piano)' (2011) contains calm sets of chords, a gentle promenade, ambling downhill, very lovely.
Susam's 'tombeau' (2014) begins with sets of four descending chords and, similar to the first Boon piece, retains the basic chord while augmenting the surrounding tones, then varies that a little, allowing the sounds to blossom like slow motion footage of a blooming flower, the pattern of petals offering regularity while the time sequence of their unfurling flows from regular to slightly less so. The basic downward trajectory is maintained for the most part, as befits a tombeau. Glints of other alternatives appear momentarily before the descent continues, no enhanced with lusher swaddling, some chords so lovely they cause one to shiver. A superb piece.
And a superb album altogether, as rewarding as those recitals I've witnessed. I can't recommend this one highly enough."-Brian Olewnick, Just Outside
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Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Dante Boon "Dante Boon (1973) is a Dutch composer and pianist living in Amsterdam. At the age of 14, he started his piano studies at the Amsterdam Sweelinck Conservatorium. At the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, he studied composition with Diderik Wagenaar. After having been the keyboard player and arranger for a major Dutch rock band for several years, he went back to the classical, especially contemporary piano repertoire. With Samuel Vriezen, he recorded Tom Johnson's Symmetries (piano four hands) for Karnatic Lab Records. Recordings for other labels include works by Rozalie Hirs (Attacca Records) and Philip Corner (New World Records). his first solo CD cage. frey. vriezen. feldman. ayres. johnson .manion was released 2010 on Edition Wandelweiser Records to international critical acclaim." ^ Hide Bio for Dante Boon • Show Bio for Antoine Beuger "Antoine Beuger (b. 1955 in Oosterhout, Netherlands) studied composition with Ton de Leeuw at Sweelinck Coservatorium in Amsterdam 1973-78. In 1990 he began composing after an interruption of about 10 years. Two years later he founded Edition Wandelweiser together with composer/performer Burkhard Schlothauer. Since 1994 he's been active with the conception and organisation of KLANGRAUM, a concert series at Kunstraum Düsseldorf. During the years 1995-2001 he was working together with visual artist Mauser as artistic director of "Werkraum", Place for Interdisciplinary Artistic Events, Cologne. Since 1996 he's been artistic director of edition wandelweiser records and since 2004 managing director of Edition Wandelweiser gmbh." ^ Hide Bio for Antoine Beuger • Show Bio for Taylan Susam "Taylan Susam, Composer. Born in amsterdam (1986); lives in providence, ri studied philosophy in leuven and istanbul. Primarily interested in moral psychology, epistemology, and kant's practical philosophy. Currently pursuing a doctorate at brown university. Studied composition with Antoine Beuger, Samuel Vriezen, Martijn Padding, Yannis Kyriakides, Petr Kotík, Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff, And Richard Ayres. Other important mentors include James Fulkerson and Dante Boon. Works performed in 14 countries, 41 cities to date, appeared on 4 cd's, and reviewed in the Monograph Experimental Music since 1970, among other academic and journalistic publications. Member of the Wandelweiser Composers Collective; scores published by Edition Wandelweiser. Frequent collaborators (past and present) include Antoine Beuger, Manfred Werder, Koen Nutters, Joseph Kudirka, John Lely, Jason Brogan, Sam Sfirri, James Fulkerson, Tobias Liebezeit, Samuel Vriezen, Dante Boon, and Jeremiah Runnels." ^ Hide Bio for Taylan Susam
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Track Listing:
1. Pour Etre Seul(e), Sans Reserve 36:10
2. Years, Numbers 5:34
3. Nov. (Piano) 3:26
4. Tombeau 11:26
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