: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : Artist......: John Tilbury / Keith Rowe / Kjell Bj°rgeengen : Album.......: Sissel : : Label.......: SOFA .. .:.. . Genre.......: Avantgarde : Catnr.......: SOFA563 . ' Source......: CD , ; Rip.date....: 2018-05-15 Str.date....: 2018-05-25 Quality.....: 280kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://www.sofamusic.no/album/sissel ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 1. Sissel 48:23 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 48:23 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 101.88______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: John Tilbury and Keith Rowe have performed together within the :, : legendary improvising ensemble AMM, as well as in numerous other : :' contexts over the years. Duos for Doris (2003) was their first ': ,: meeting as a duo, E.E. Tension and Circumstance (2010) was the :, : second before the 4CD box on SOFA, enough still not to know, was : :' released in 2015. enough still not to know also introduces the ': ,: norwegian video artist Kjell Bj°rgeengen as a collaborator, in :, : this case as the producer of the album. Bj°rgeengen, being a : :' long time collaborator with both Tilbury and Rowe, is an ': ,: integral part of the group with Sissel. :, : : :' SOFA is proud to continue to present the work of Tilbury and ': ,: Rowe's long time collaboration, but also equally proud to hear :, : Kjell Bj°rgeenges as a performer on this deeply moving album : :' captured by Espen Reinertsen at the concert series Moving Sound ': ,: in Stavanger 2016. The album is dedicated to the memory of :, : Kjell's wife Sissel, who passed away some weeks before the : :' performance. ': ,: :, : Keith Rowe writes the following about Sissel: : :' ': ,: When Kjell suggested a painting by Nicolas Poussin "The :, : gathering of the ashes of Phocion by his widow |╗ (1648) as a : :' possible focal point for our performance in Stavanger, his ': ,: suggestion immediately resonated. At the National Gallery London :, : we have stood in front of this very painting, I got a sense on : :' how we might share a reading of this painting largely based on ': ,: TJ ClarkÆs book "The Sight of Death". :, : : :' In "The gathering of the ashes of Phocion by his widow", we ': ,: find in the foreground the central figure of PhocionÆs widow on :, : her hands and knees surreptitiously gathering the ashes of the : :' executed Phocion, who had become a victim of political ': ,: manoeuvring, while her maid standing behind keeps watch. Phocion :, : has been denied a proper burial, his body burned on open ground, : :' by necessity his widow must collect his remains secretively. ': ,: :, : In the middle ground are the local people going about their : :' daily tasks. Overseeing all of this are two large trees, ': ,: bearing witness to the comings and goings of human life, they :, : watch, observe, track, without words, they are mute, and itÆs : :' this muteness that interest me. ItÆs where my music has been ': ,: heading for during the past decade, a mute scratching in the :, : foreground, and the chatter and clatter of human life somewhere : :' vaguely behind. During the performance in Stavanger a recording ': ,: of JS BachÆs Chaconne BWV1004-5 (Tayiana Nikolayeva) is played, :, : but you cannot hear it, it is silent, it is mute. : :' ': ,: I ask myself, why for such a distressing event as the death of a :, : dear precious friend Sissel finds its expression in muteness, : :' why muteness? I think it relates to another Poussin painting ': ,: Landscape with a Calm (1650-51). :, : : :' In this painting we see, in the exact same spot as the widow, a ': ,: curly haired shepherd gazing out over a lake. But there is :, : something strange here, the sky is full of turbulent stormy : :' clouds, but the reflection on the lake is completely calm. ': ,: Maybe itÆs here where the disruptive turbulent shocking :, : distressing news of the death of a dear friend who we loved : :' locates its muteness. ': ,: :, : Again the trees are watching. : :' ': : ' '.. ..' .. . :........... . . . . ............: . . ______________ ______________ \ / \ / \ / Shout out to all our homies from: \ / \ / \ / \ / iPC BOSS HiT2000 1way UKi i8 RNS \ / \ / RAGEMP3 MANDY DV8 pLAN9 BUTT \ / \ / \ / \/ ____ ____ \/ \ / F A N G \ / \/ 2 0 1 8 \/