"Here Now Hear" is comprised of nine innovative Australian works commissioned and recorded by the Monash Art Ensemble between 2017 & 2019, featuring an eclectic mix of contemporary cross-genre music by significant Australian composers: Paul Grabowsky, Kate Neal, Andrew Ford, Robert Burke, Cat Hope, Marc Hannaford, Paul Williamson, Johannes Luebbers and Sandy Evans.
Format: 2 CDS Condition: New Released: 2019 Country: UK Packaging: Digipack - 3 panel Recorded with students from the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music at Monash University, in Melbourne, Australia, by Ben Grayson, Daniel Tan, Hadyn Buxton and Ross Cockle.
3. Comeclose And Sleepnow: Six Liverpool Lovesongs i. Evening Song 4:02
4. Comeclose And Sleepnow: Six Liverpool Lovesongs ii. Her Song 3:43
5. Comeclose And Sleepnow: Six Liverpool Lovesongs iii. Comeclose And Sleepnow 6:17
6. Comeclose And Sleepnow: Six Liverpool Lovesongs iv. Dial-a-Poem 1:31
7. Comeclose And Sleepnow: Six Liverpool Lovesongs v. Sometimes It Happens 5:24
8. Comeclose And Sleepnow: Six Liverpool Lovesongs vi. Aubade 5:54
9. Musician And Machine 21:43
10. The Dark Hip Falls 11:10
CD2
1.Fainter, Stronger 23:05
2. For Tomasz i. The Alchemist 10:50
3. For Tomasz ii. Bittersweet 9:40
4. For Tomasz iii. Passion, Grit And Soul 5:26
5. The Drunkard's Walk Step 3 8:42
6. The Drunkard's Walk Step 5 8:18
7. The Drunkard's Walk Step 1 11:57
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"___ Here Now Hear
Here Now Hear is comprised of nine innovative Australian works commissioned and recorded by the Monash Art Ensemble between 2017-2019. It features an eclectic mix of contemporary cross-genre music by significant Australian composers: Paul Grabowsky, Kate Neal, Andrew Ford, Robert Burke, Cat Hope, Marc Hannaford, Paul Williamson, Johannes Luebbers and Sandy Evans.
__ Monash Art Ensemble
The Monash Art Ensemble was established in 2012 within the Faculty of Arts and Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music at Monash University thanks to the generosity of the Vizard Foundation and the Robert Salzer Foundation. The ensemble, directed by Paul Grabowsky AO, is a polystylistic ensemble that aims to support the development of excellence in young Australian musicians, foster a culture of innovation amongst established Australian musicians, and encourage community engagement with the Australian music industry.
__ The Composers
Kate Neal is a composer, arranger and collaborator. Neal has been the recipient of many awards, scholarships and fellowships, including the 2016 Melbourne Prize for Music - Beleura Award for Composition. Fractured is an ode to many of the jazz & free players.
Andrew Ford OAM is an award-winning composer, writer and broadcaster. 'Comeclose and Sleepnow' is Ford's first foray writing for improvising ensemble.
Sandy Evans OAM is an internationally renowned composer and saxophonist. 'The Drunkard's Walk' explores the relationship between improvisation and composition and stems from her current Australia Council Fellowship that considers the role of randomness in improvised music.
Paul Grabowsky AO is an award-winning pianist, composer, arranger and conductor. The great drummer, poet and raconteur Allan Browne introduced Grabowsky to the singular, at times ecstatic verse of e.e. cummings. Grabowsky tried in this piece to convey the sense of weightlessness suggested by the text. Melting chords and fragments of melody drift through a void laced with an insistent, quiet rhythmic ostinato carried from vibraphone to trombone, clarinet, piano and violin: 'one by one stars flutter into dust'.
Cat Hope's music is conceptually driven with a focus on low frequency sounds, featuring graphically notated acoustic and electronic combinations represented in animated notations. 'Dark Hip Falls' is a dedication to Scott Walker (1943-2019) and his contribution to the idea of song in during the change of millennia.
Marc Hannaford is an improviser, composer, and academic based in New York. Fainter, Stronger presents a series of sonic portraits of some of his musical collaborators and influencers, framed within large scale temporal cycles.
Robert Burke is a distinguished performer, composer, author and educator. 'Musician and Machine' explores how electronic performance integrates with improvising classical and jazz musicians. The outcome aims to promote a musical system design and real-time interaction between musician and machine.
Paul Williamson is a trumpeter, composer and educator. 'For Tomasz' is a homage to Polish trumpeter and composer, Tomasz Stanko (1942-2018) with whom MAE collaborated in 2016."