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Arpeggios of Silence

by Jeff Gburek & Friends

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Arpeggios of Silence (feat. Howe, Boffa, Gburek, Brathwaite) 20:28
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Arpeggios of Silence (Instrumental #1) 20:05
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The Water of the Water (Instrumental Stem Elaboration) 08:31
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Others: Rainy Day Redance with Ilaria Boffa 10:28
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Arpeggios of Silence, Slight Return, feat. John Palumbo: singing bowl, hands, drums 20:01
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An arpeggio, poetically speaking, is a chord that cannot keep itself together, which breaks up into notes chasing one another in an endless cycle; tones, following, repeating themselves in samsaric search for lost origins across associative distancing. It is an intelligent dance organization, a melancholic gathering of a mobile of elements jiggled by invisible forces. As the broken chord staggers over the soundscape, the death knells of individual silences burst onto the shore and withdraw.

There are so many sounds available for the attentive listeners that it is actually the unsound or the silence that speaks, issues though the fissures, the speakers. Here we have a variable potential structure for bearing numerous iterations or migrations of voices in isolation carried on one wave.

In track number 1, on this particular journey, which I should have properly performed live in concert one month ago, we who listen can meet the poetry and voices of Susan Howe, Ilaria Boffa, myself and Kamau Brathwaite, although the voices can be in the sounds themselves and I don't know all their names just yet. Those who listen can perhaps help me to understand them.

Track 2 is an instrumental performed in the studio. Some pre-recorded elements combined with others in a live improvisation.

Track 3 is another iteration employing the main piano theme but leaving out all rhythmic elements, allowing the synthesizer to shape alternate commentaries and re-contextualizations.

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released April 13, 2020

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AKASHIC RECORDS Poland

Guitarist, composer, sound designer, field recordist, shortwave radio poet, blending electro-acoustic, electronica, spectral comp., cracked circuits, sounding organic objects with an ear towards earth voices. Studied Javanese and Balinese gamelan and theories of Partch and Xenakis. Working with dance/theater/butoh co. Djalma Primordial Science. More than 400 concerts throughout Europe since 2005. ... more

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