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Melos
:Album Description:Keenly anticipated follow-up to the beguiling and commercially successful Chants, Hymns and Dances album. Chants, Hymns and Dances with its striking juxtaposition of music by G.I.Gurdjieff and Tsabropoulos landed on classical charts around the world - and was for a time a Top 10 disc at amazon.com. Melos again features Tsabropoulos and Gurdjieff compositions, but reverses the ratio, with more Tsabropoulos to be heard, in an arc of material that incorporates three clearly-etched Gurdjieff tunes. Each piece on Melos is melodically-direct but also offers perspectives for expressive playing. Anja Lechner's ...
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Gurdjieff, Tsabropoulos: Chants, Hymns and Dances
from: ECM
: :Philosopher, seeker after the truth, reconciler of science and religion, teacher, guru to artists, writers and musicians, Gurdjieff was an enigmatic figure; even his birthdate is uncertain: 1866 or 1877. He taught movements 'to alter or heighten consciousness' at his Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man, located outside Paris---a highly improvisatory process for which he composed equally improvisatory music. Technically untrained, he depended on skilled assistants to realize and write down his ideas, and found one in a devoted disciple: Ukranian pianist/composer Thomas de Hartmann, who selflessly suspended his own ...
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The Triangle
: :Philosopher, seeker after the truth, reconciler of science and religion, teacher, guru to artists, writers and musicians, Gurdjieff was an enigmatic figure; even his birthdate is uncertain: 1866 or 1877. He taught movements 'to alter or heighten consciousness' at his Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man, located outside Paris---a highly improvisatory process for which he composed equally improvisatory music. Technically untrained, he depended on skilled assistants to realize and write down his ideas, and found one in a devoted disciple: Ukranian pianist/composer Thomas de Hartmann, who selflessly suspended his own ...
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Achirana
: :Bassist Arild Andersen assembled this close-knit trio in which he joins a fellow veteran, drummer John Marshall, and Vassilis Tsabropoulos, a young pianist who's distinguished himself in the classical field. It's a remarkable jazz debut for the Greek pianist, whose playing reveals none of the stiffness or empty technical display that often appears when classical players turn to improvisation. He belongs to a distinctly European stream of pianists initially influenced by Bill Evans, but which has developed an identity of its own. For sheer beauty of sonority and effective use of ...
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Akroasis
: :Bassist Arild Andersen assembled this close-knit trio in which he joins a fellow veteran, drummer John Marshall, and Vassilis Tsabropoulos, a young pianist who's distinguished himself in the classical field. It's a remarkable jazz debut for the Greek pianist, whose playing reveals none of the stiffness or empty technical display that often appears when classical players turn to improvisation. He belongs to a distinctly European stream of pianists initially influenced by Bill Evans, but which has developed an identity of its own. For sheer beauty of sonority and effective use of ...
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The Triangle
: :Bassist Arild Andersen assembled this close-knit trio in which he joins a fellow veteran, drummer John Marshall, and Vassilis Tsabropoulos, a young pianist who's distinguished himself in the classical field. It's a remarkable jazz debut for the Greek pianist, whose playing reveals none of the stiffness or empty technical display that often appears when classical players turn to improvisation. He belongs to a distinctly European stream of pianists initially influenced by Bill Evans, but which has developed an identity of its own. For sheer beauty of sonority and effective use of ...
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