Hafez Modirzadeh -Facets -Pi Recordi CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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1.1 Facet Taborn

1.2 Dawn Facet

1.3 Facet 27 Light

1.4 Facet 28 Nora

1.5 Facet 29 Night

1.6 Facet 34 Defracted

1.7 Ask Me Now

1.8 Facet Sorey

1.9 Facet 31 Woke

1.10 Ebb Facet

1.11 Facet 33 Tides

1.12 Flow Facet

1.13 Pannonica

1.14 Facet BB

1.15 Facet 35 Ode B'kongofon

1.16 Facet 32 Black Pearl

1.17 Facet 39 Mato Paha

1.18 Ode Reprise

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Â»FacetsÂ« ist das jÃ¼ngste radikale PlÃ¤doyer des Saxofonisten Hafez Modirzadeh gegen die hÃ¤ufig vorherrschende westliche Vorstellung von der Wohltemperierten Stimmung als Grundlage von Musik. Der in vielen Kulturen und musikalischen Stilen der Welt studierte Komponist argumentiert, dass Musiker die Freiheit haben sollten, eine Vielzahl von klanglichen MÃ¶glichkeiten zu erforschen â?? auch am Klavier. Auf der neuen VerÃ¶ffentlichung hat Modirzadeh seine Ideen zu einer einzigen Umstimmung destilliert, die er in Duetten mit drei Ã¼berragenden Pianisten der zeitgenÃ¶ssischen improvisierten Musik auffÃ¼hrt. Kris Davis, Tyshawn Sorey und Craig Taborn befragen mit viel Fantasie die neuen MÃ¶glichkeiten ihres Klaviers. Modirzadeh selbst experimentiert mit Intervallen zwischen Dur und Moll, die StÃ¼cke schwingen mit einer ElastizitÃ¤t, die an Metren persischer Dichtung erinnern. -

Facets is saxophonist/composer Hafez Modirzadeh's latest radical entreaty against the cultural hegemony of the Western notion of equal temperament and his argument that musicians should be free to explore a variety of tonal possibilities, even on piano. His 2012 release Post-Chromodal Out! was the first documentation of this concept, where the piano was tuned to a variety of temperaments. Performed with pianist Vijay Iyer, The New York Times called that album "Dauntless... There's heady discipline at work here, along with the stirrings of a hard-fought individualism." With his new release, Modirzadeh has distilled the idea to a single re-tuning, which is performed in duets with three towering musicians in contemporary improvised music: Kris Davis, Tyshawn Sorey and Craig Taborn, each interrogating the piano's new possibilities with imagination and ingenuity. Modirzadeh himself utilizes alternate fingerings and embouchure adjustments on his instrument to achieve intervals between major and minor, and the pieces sway with an elasticity reminiscent of Persian poetic meter. With eight keys re-tuned and the remainder left in equal temperament, the music explores the coexistence of familiar with unfamiliar, and in the process, discovers new logic and mysterious beauty with

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PI 87

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