{"id":4016,"date":"2022-02-03T23:18:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T23:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irminschmidt.com\/site\/?p=4016"},"modified":"2022-02-03T23:20:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T23:20:52","slug":"live-album-release-nocturne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irminschmidt.com\/site\/live-album-release-nocturne\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE ALBUM RELEASE NOCTURNE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Nocturne\"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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OUT ON 29 MAY 2020 FEATURING TWO NEW PIANO PIECES<\/h6>\n

IRMIN SCHMIDT has announced details of Nocturne, a newly recorded live album documenting his Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival performance at the end of last year. Nocturne will be released on Mute \/ Spoon Records as a worldwide edition of 1000 on double white etched vinyl, CD and digitally on 29 May 2020, the composer\u2019s 83 rd birthday.<\/p>\n

The appearance at the renowned festival was his first solo piano concert in the UK to date and saw the artist perform the worldwide premiere of two unheard compositions, \u2018Nocturne\u2019 and \u2018Yonder\u2019 as well as the UK premiere of \u2018Klavierst\u00fcck II\u2019, from 2018\u2019s 5 Klavierst\u00fccke.<\/p>\n

Listen to an excerpt of the album here<\/a><\/p>\n

Nocturne (live at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival) comprises three pieces performed live on a partly prepared piano, along additional pre-recorded soundscapes. The live performance of \u2018Klavierst\u00fcck II\u2019 is a pensive improvisation using essential elements of the original piece. \u2018Nocturne\u2019 starts with the ambient sounds whilst the piano seemingly melts into the soundscape and eventually grows into a long meditative piano solo. \u2018Yonder\u2019 is a much more dramatic piece, dominated by the overwhelming sounds of church bells, a sort of \u201cdies irai\u201d, radical, emotional and fiercely poetic.<\/p>\n

Irmin Schmidt on \u2018Nocturne\u2019: \u201cThe same as one can see faces and animals in the shapes of clouds, one can sometimes \u2013 particularly at night between the state of sleep and consciousness – let music structures appear out of the noises that surround you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Irmin Schmidt on \u2018Yonder\u2019: \u201cChurch bells: A sound that has deeply and contradictorily touched me since my childhood. After the war we lived surrounded by ruins, only the church tower was intact and the bells would burst through the ruins every hour of the day. Watching Notre Dame burn on live TV evoked the memory. Three weeks later I started to write Yonder.\u201d<\/p>\n

From All Gates Open (by Schmidt and Young, Faber & Faber), Irmin Schmidt expands: \u201cOn the streets one afternoon I hear the beautiful bells of St Martin\u2019s church. Minutes pass. The ringing subsumes all the sounds of the city around me, coalescing them into a single sonic space. Harmonies and hues all around me, vibrating, shimmering. I stand and listen. Sometimes, within sounds of church bells, I feel strangely at home and secure.\u201d<\/p>\n

After an extensive classical education as pianist, conductor and composer, Irmin Schmidt \u2013 who studied under Stockhausen and Ligeti – co-founded Can in the late 60s, combining classic new music with rock and jazz. Outside of his work with Can, Schmidt has released over a dozen solo albums and written an opera, Gormenghast, based on the novels of Mervyn Peake. In 2015, he was made a Chevalier de l\u2019Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contribution to art and culture one of France\u2019s highest honours, and in 2018 Faber Social published Can \u2013 All Gates Open, a two part book \u2013 the first section is Can\u2019s biography, written by Rob Young, and the second section is Can Kiosk, a collage of diary entries and interviews edited and written by Irmin Schmidt.<\/p>\n

Irmin Schmidt\u2019s last album, 2018\u2019s 5 Klavierst\u00fccke was a piano work using partly prepared (in the way he\u00a0was taught by John Cage himself) and unprepared piano, recorded and produced by Gareth Jones in the South of France and a recently updated collection of Irmin Schmidt\u2019s solo work, Villa Wunderbar, was released on vinyl at the end of last year.<\/p>\n

Schmidt’s sound-trips combine what normally competes and conflicts: rock, pop, jazz, classic, electronic, ambient, drum ‘n\u2019 bass, waltz, eastern… He is a musical alchemist.<\/p>\n

RECENT PRAISE FOR IRMIN SCHMIDT\u2019S 5 KLAVIERST\u00dcCKE \u201c\u2026 he builds a relentless, muffled rhythm Jaki Liebezeit would have admired\u201d 8* UNCUT \u201cA hypnotic duel between silence and humanity\u201d \u2013 PROG \u201c\u2026 zenlike in its austerity\u201d – SPIN<\/p>\n

TRACKLISTING 1 – Klavierst\u00fcck\u00a0II (18:24) 2 – Nocturne (13:59) 3 – Yonder (22:39)<\/p>\n

Pre-order: https:\/\/mute.ffm.to\/is-noc<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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