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  Traces

  Transformation von Natur und Kultur Die Pracht der aquatorialen Walder, die üppige Vegetation Brasiliens und die kulturellen Implikationen von Pflanzengattungen und Blumen sind in der Bildwelt von Luzia Simons (geb. 1953 in Quixada , Cearia , Brasilien; lebt und arbeitet in Berlin) fest verankert. In Aquarellen, Malereien, Fotografien und Tapisserien lotet die Künstlerin die undurchdringbare Rolle der Natur aus und schafft durch eigens entwickelte Bildtechniken poetische Studien zu Formen und Farben. Simons ist eine Pionierin in der Entwicklung des Scanogramms - einer Medientechnik, die Elemente der Malerei und der Fotografie miteinander verbindet. Auf einem hochauflosenden Scanner arrangiert sie Blüten und Blatter verschiedenster Tulpenarten und lasst so eindrucksvolle Arbeiten von intensiver farblicher Brillanz und ungeheurer Scharfe entstehen. Dass Natur und Kultur in standiger Transformation sind und auch Identitaten niemals statisch verharren, führt Simons in ihrem Werk eindrücklich vor Augen. Die Publikation Traces zeigt einen umfassenden Einblick in das uvre der Künstlerin und gibt einen Uberblick zu den Ausstellungen der letzten drei Jahrzehnte. Die Texte schrieben Tereza de Arruda, Chantal Colleu-Dumond und Irina Hiebert Grun. Transformation of Nature and Culture The luxuriant equatorial forests and voluptuous vegetation of Brazil and the cultural implications of plant genera and flowers are integral to the imagery of Luzia Simons's (b. Quixada , Cearia , Brazil, 1953; lives and works in Berlin) art. In watercolors, paintings, photographs, and tapestries, the artist probes the impenetrable role that nature plays, employing pictorial techniques of her own devising to create poetic studies of forms and colors. Simons is a pioneer in the development of the scanogram-a media technique that combines elements of painting and photography. Arranging blossoms and leaves of a wide range of tulip cultivars on a high-resolution scanner, she produces imposing works that boast intense and brilliant colors and stupendous definition. Just as nature and culture are in constant transformation, identities never remain fixed: that is what Simons's work illustrates to stunning effect. The publication Traces presents a comprehensive survey of the artist's oeuvre and an overview of her exhibitions of the past three decades. With essays by Tereza de Arruda, Chantal Colleu-Dumond, and Irina Hiebert Grun.

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  Luxuriant Life in City

  Luxuriant Life in City: ab 1.49 €

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  Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumn

  Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumn: ab 81.49 €

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  Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumn

  Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumn: ab 75.49 €

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  Sportsman: Neverland

  Stockholm-based musician Sportsman (real-name Per Magnusson) announces his longawaited debut album 'Neverland'. The first single is ¿Running On A Beach', an elegant slice of quasi-retro RnB, pairing fluttering synths and electronics with a luxuriant pop-tinged rhythm section. Cutting his teeth originally as a part of Malmö-based soul pop quintet The Sonnets, whose impressive tour schedule back in 2010 saw the band whisked to far flung destinations, gaining plaudits from the likes of Dazed, BBC 6 Music, and Vogue Italia along the way. When the time arrived for a moment of reflection upon the adventures endeavoured with the band, Magnusson embarked upon a soul-searching voyage, and it was in Kenya that the inspiration for his new project, Sportsman, would be blown into his path. Per named his solo project after a pack of cigarettes he found in the sand on a beach overlooking the Indian Ocean - and hasn't looked back since. With Swedish Grammy Award-winning producer Johan Cederberg (aka HNNY) returning to assist on Sportsman's debut full length 'Neverland' ¿ the initial, romantic and evocative vision of the project has been brought fully to life. Sportsman has never been a purely solo effort, instead it's more of as a solo vision ¿ executed by one inspired individual and a handful of carefully selected kindred spirits.

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  Neverland

  (LP) Der Stockholmer Musiker Sportsman mit seinem Solodebut, zwischen Retro-R'n'B, Pop und Elektronik. Produziert von HNNY und feat. Linnea Jönsson (Those Dancing Days)Der Stockholmer Musiker Sportsman mit seinem Solodebut, zwischen Retro-R'n'B, Pop und Elektronik. Produziert von HNNY und feat. Linnea Jönsson (Those Dancing Days) Stockholm-based musician Sportsman (real-name Per Magnusson) announces his longawaited debut album 'Neverland'. The first single is Running On A Beach , an elegant slice of quasi-retro RnB, pairing fluttering synths and electronics with a luxuriant pop-tinged rhythm section. Cutting his teeth originally as a part of Malmö-based soul pop quintet The Sonnets. TRACKS: 1. Always 2. White Shark 3. Cashmere 4. Baseball 5. Cheetahs 6. Neverland 7. Running on a Beach 8. September Air 9. Frank 10. Linnea 11. And Forever

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  Creature

  New and original things are always tough to describe. The urge to classify is comforting, perhaps necessary. Is it chamber-jazz? Or some kind of indie alternative rock? What about new wave improvisation? Frankly, I can't tell you. First and foremost, there is Ila Cantor's guitar. Cantor is a deep guitarist, her pick and strum and pluck equally resonant with classical Spain and hardcore rock, gypsy jazz and the cool touch of masters like Jim Hall. Creature is a strikingly pure guitar album: pure, but definitely not purist. There are effects, electronics. How could there not be, so many decades after Charlie Christian and Jimmy Hendrix and Robert Fripp? True to her moment in the history of the instrument, Cantor makes her guitar speak with a vocabulary replete and plangent, echo and call and foray into the unknown. No less definitive are Cantor's compositions: deliberate, almost stately in their postulation of theme, classical in their restraint - until they turn in sinuous development and break out in meticulous rhythmic discord, progressing not only harmonically but sonically, always coherent and shaped by a craft both measured and luxuriant. Like her guitar Cantor's writing embraces rather than fuses diverse musical forms. It is an unhyphenated music all her own. And then there is Cantor's trio, with Matt Brewer on upright bass and Tommy Crane on drums. The responsiveness - the back and forth of swelling and receding sound and percussive counter-rhythm, the absolutely assured foundation across which Cantor weaves her beguiling motifs and riffs and lines - is thrilling. This is a tight risk-taking trio, an organism that adapts impressively with every sonic bud and bloom. Why Creature? But else what do you call an animal, a living breathing vital thing that as yet has no name? This is indeed living vital emergent music. Before we try to name it, listen.

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  Me & the Boys

  Me and the Boys Just won the Album of the Year 07 08 in the Durham Region Music Awards. Already, it is getting noticed. To top it off Lynn won Female Vocalist of the year at the same Awards Celebration. Her eighth album, this one is a culmination of her feisty approach to uptempo swing and maturity as well. Her voice is classically trained and shows no bounds across four octaves. Lynn truly enjoys her vocal instrument in all it's brilliant colours and luxuriant hues. She now teaches in the Faculty of Music at York University Toronto, Ontario.Twice a year she travels to Prague, Czeck Rep where she has a band as well and will record there soon. Lynn appreciates the role of passing the 'torch' to young singers and exposing them to the greats,Julie London, Ella, Sarah, Anita, Kurt, Tony etc. The band on this CD is given a full swath by their leader to play out and play hard. You can often hear their reparteeto each other and the audience is clearly along for a good time Recommended listening...

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  Silver Guitar

  Ernesto García de León and Martín Pedreira Ernesto García de León and Martín Pedreira are guitarists and composers who enjoy active concertizing and teaching careers in their mutual countries. They are great admirers of each other and have dedicated music to each other. García de León's Acere, Op. 27 (1988) is not only dedicated to Pedreira, but contains themes from Pedreira's own music. Likewise, Pedreira's Homenaje a Heitor Villa-Lobos (1994) is dedicated to his old friend, both composers are ardent aficionados of the great Brazilian composer. Yet, they have much more in common. Both hail from very tropical regions in which folk and popular music play an integral role in the everyday life of everyone. García de León comes from the state of Veracruz, the easternmost region of Mexico on the Gulf, a part of the country more akin musically and ethnically to Cuba than any other part of Mexico. Both have been guests in each other's country, giving recitals and master classes and acting as tour guides for the benefit of musical "a-nationalism". After a consummate analysis and integration of styles, each composer has filtered the folk and popular music of their country and applied it, newly conceived, in their own compositions. Thus we hear the logical result of the 20th century's music in their work. Their music is the subsequent product of Amadeo Roldán and Alejandro García Caturla, Stravinsky and Bartok, Villa-lobos and Brouwer, Ponce and Revueltas, or Chavez and Copland. But it could also easily be said that this is the result of the son-montuno, the son jarocho, the guajira, danzón, the rumba, of Pablo Milanés, of Guty Cárdenas, of Pérez Prado, Toña la negra, Agustín Lara, Silvio Rodríguez, Benny Moré, the Trio Matamoros, Los Panchos, the Beatles, and just about anything else either composer ever heard as a child. It is an important characteristic of the world in which they exist to appropriate, take apart, and reassemble - leaving and adding as they go. Martín Pedreira (b. 1952, Havana) Martín Pedreira (b. 1952, Havana) is a guitarist and composer who is continuing in the compositional tradition of his teacher Leo Brouwer. He has sought to create music that can successfully express a unique voice that is knowledgeable of the music of a post-modern world, while using his beloved traditional Afro-Cuban rhythms and music as the template within which to manipulate these ideals. Although his catalog of work is small, the quality is of a high standard which only bears witness to his meticulous craftsmanship. His Divertimentos (1987), for which he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Composición by the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), is a collection of 25 studies intended to improve the technical abilities of the performer. However, these pieces go far beyond mere technical drivel, passing through many moods and sonorities which contradict the collection's humble intent. In an email, Pedreira comments about these pieces: "With strains of Cuban "country" and African music, the Divertimentos, at their essence, are short pedagogical studies inspired by traditional Cuban music. These references are sometimes direct and obvious, like the Oriki Iyá (ritualistic Lucumí chant), or indirect, as if from a dream, like the series of Islas or Preludios. In some cases, there is an emphasis on specific techniques, but these procedures are applied without losing sight of the principal objective - that of maintaining the expressive character of the music. " In the present recording, Carlo Pezzimenti has chosen a selection of 13 from the Divertimentos, while the "Guajira" is taken from a separate work, Pedreira's Suite Simple. Ernesto García de León Ernesto García de León is represented on this recording by two different works. La Guitarra de Plata (The Silver Guitar), Op. 56 dates from 2001 and has a tragic story. One of García de León's students at the National Conservatory of of Music in Mexico City, Noé García Alcaraz, commissioned a set of twenty etudes that he would perform in his graduating recital. The commissioned work was written (20 Estudios, Op. 50, 1998) and the recital went off without a hitch. As a present for the occasion and for his professorial guidance, Noé presented García de León with a small silver guitar. This piece had been made by artisans in Alcaraz's home city of Taxco, famous for it's silver mines, silver jewelry and crafts, in whose traditional style this 'silver guitar' had been made. Later, García de León learned of the tragic and senseless death of his student in a botched surgery. García de León wrote The Silver Guitar as an elegy to his student that was fittingly premiered in 2001 by Juan Carlos Laguna at the annual guitar festival held in Noé García Alcaraz's home of Taxco. It's structure is in three parts (Introduction, Dance, Elegy) with a coda in the "Elegy". The composer uses free atonality and chance procedures, as well as an ethereal, sometimes sardonic, mood to evoke the melancholic essence from which the piece is born. The "Canción" and "Final" are the last two movements of García de León's Suite, Op. 35 (1992) for two guitars. The tone in these pieces is lighter and more nostalgic, focusing on rhythmic qualities so pervasive in his music, such as the habanera rhythm in his "Canción" and the son jarocho in his "Final". Interestingly, the composer urges a certain amount of improvisation from both performers in the "Final", yet another quality of his style that is representative of the post-modern world. Brian Clemént-Foreman (b. 1952) Lousiana native Brian Clemént-Foreman (b. 1952) has an extensive catalog of compositions featuring the guitar, his own instrument. His latest addition, the triptych Contes Normands (2006) is the product of a vacation the composer took to Normandy. Inspired by the same countryside and hamlets that were such fruitful muses for Guy de Maupassant, Clément-Foreman has produced three pieces for two guitars imbued with the colors and harmonies of what one can aptly call neo-impressionism. While never easily falling into a cliché, the composer weaves a luxuriant fabric of harmonic denseness clearly evoking the reminiscences of his visit. This recording features the first two movements, "Les Andelys" and "Honfleur", named after communities in Normandy. - Notes by Pedro A. Haley Ernesto Garcia De Leon's compositions are published by Michael Lorimer Editions. (ASCAP). Michael Lorimer Editions, 175 west 73rd street (10G) New York 10023 USA. Brian Clement is also a member of ASCAP Martin Pedreira's music is published by Editora Musical de Cuba (EMC) Carlo Pezzimenti Carlo Pezzimenti, who studied under the great Spanish Guitarist Andres Segovia, is the director of the guitar programs at Texas Woman's University in Denton Texas and Brookhaven College in Dallas Texas. He has given concerts around the world, and to date has released 18 recordings. His work has been reviewed by many publications including Gramophone Magazine and the New York Times, which stated, ' In his hands the music made it's effect with reserved eloquence' Brian Rowe Brian Rowe, born in Huston, Texas, studied classical guitar with Carlo Pezzimenti, and earned a bachelor's degree of music from Texas Women's University in 2009. Brian plans to continue studying with Carlo and obtain a master's degree in guitar pedagogy The Silver Guitar Again I am proud to present another in our series of recordings that feature the poetic beauty that can be realized on the classical guitar playing well composed contemporary music, music that is truly inspired, not hatched out based on a formula. The music recorded on this CD will invoke images of nature, of faraway lands, of anguish at a loss, joy of love and the bliss of surrender to life itself... Just listen and allow the silvery notes of Carlo's Fleta guitar and Brian's Rozas guitar take you on a magical ride to worlds that words cannot describe...enjoy. ---Austin Audu.

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