Before the Fall
by Dan Peter Sundland's Home Stretch
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Before the Fall
06:23
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I Insist
04:29
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Broken Circle
04:48
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Stepladder Technique
06:20
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Squared Circle
07:42
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Still Stream
02:44
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Stretched
08:39
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The Moon is Tidy
04:51
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An Old, Familiar Tune
04:24
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Ritual Offering
10:34
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about
Norwegian bass player Dan Peter Sundland has gathered three of Berlin's most prominent improvisers in his Home Stretch. The quartet combines chamber musical timbres and sensitivities with the immediacy and freedom of free jazz and improvised music through Sundland's compositions sprinkled with more open sections.
Propelled forwards by Steve Heather's sensitively messy beats and Dan Peter Sundland's distinct, electroacoustic bass sound, piano guru Antonis Anissegos and saxophone giant Philipp Gropper perform a neck-breaking, swirling dance through deceptive 12-tone matrices, Morton Feldman-like clusters and layered tonalities. The band connects through combining innovative intuition, deep listening and timbral awareness in what was already in their premiere concert described in the press as "near-perfect communication".
The compositions on "Before the Fall" are largely based on dogmatic tonal concepts. The title track, for instance, takes its bass line from a misremembered Benjamin Britten piece rhythmically and melodically stretched. It then had straight triads added to it, as well as the first melody; finally the second melody (first tenor entry) snakes its way through the whole structure. "Stretched" is based on a 12-tone line heard in its entirety in the chords in the intro; this then gets manipulated and processed throughout the composition, with the main melody taking rhythmical cues from Olivier Messiaën's mirroring concepts. "The Moon is Tidy" is as far light on concept as this album gets, but even here, the ostinato-like piano motive is dogmatically persistent through the changing harmonies of this jazziest tune of the album.
"Before the Fall" was recorded over two days at the historic Emil Berliner Studios in Berlin. Located in the same building as the legendary Hansa Studios, EBS takes its name from the inventor of the gramophone, whose society "Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft" established the studio in 1900.
Propelled forwards by Steve Heather's sensitively messy beats and Dan Peter Sundland's distinct, electroacoustic bass sound, piano guru Antonis Anissegos and saxophone giant Philipp Gropper perform a neck-breaking, swirling dance through deceptive 12-tone matrices, Morton Feldman-like clusters and layered tonalities. The band connects through combining innovative intuition, deep listening and timbral awareness in what was already in their premiere concert described in the press as "near-perfect communication".
The compositions on "Before the Fall" are largely based on dogmatic tonal concepts. The title track, for instance, takes its bass line from a misremembered Benjamin Britten piece rhythmically and melodically stretched. It then had straight triads added to it, as well as the first melody; finally the second melody (first tenor entry) snakes its way through the whole structure. "Stretched" is based on a 12-tone line heard in its entirety in the chords in the intro; this then gets manipulated and processed throughout the composition, with the main melody taking rhythmical cues from Olivier Messiaën's mirroring concepts. "The Moon is Tidy" is as far light on concept as this album gets, but even here, the ostinato-like piano motive is dogmatically persistent through the changing harmonies of this jazziest tune of the album.
"Before the Fall" was recorded over two days at the historic Emil Berliner Studios in Berlin. Located in the same building as the legendary Hansa Studios, EBS takes its name from the inventor of the gramophone, whose society "Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft" established the studio in 1900.
credits
released November 20, 2023
Philipp Gropper – tenor sax
Antonis Anissegos – piano, electronics
Dan Peter Sundland – electric bass
Steve Heather – drums
Recorded by Guy Sternberg at Emil Berliner Studio in Berlin on March 18 & 19, 2022
Mixed and mastered by Guy Sternberg at LowSwing Studios in Berlin in October & November 2022
Original Cover Photo by Jamie Croft
Graphics and layout by Davide Lorenz
Compositions funded by Komponistenes Vederlagsfond
Recording funded by Berlin Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa
Produced by Dan Peter Sundland and Aut Records
Philipp Gropper – tenor sax
Antonis Anissegos – piano, electronics
Dan Peter Sundland – electric bass
Steve Heather – drums
Recorded by Guy Sternberg at Emil Berliner Studio in Berlin on March 18 & 19, 2022
Mixed and mastered by Guy Sternberg at LowSwing Studios in Berlin in October & November 2022
Original Cover Photo by Jamie Croft
Graphics and layout by Davide Lorenz
Compositions funded by Komponistenes Vederlagsfond
Recording funded by Berlin Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa
Produced by Dan Peter Sundland and Aut Records
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Aut Records Berlin, Germany
Aut Records is a record label dedicated to experimental and research music. We are trying to describe a musical environment that cannot be assigned to a particular genre, and is removed from any specific musical language.
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