Tania Giannouli Ensemble - Transcendence (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Greek pianist and composer Tania Giannouli follows her Rattle debut, "Forest Stories", with a very different recording from the newly formed Tania Giannouli Ensemble. With influences as diverse as Greek folk music, contemporary classical, modern jazz, world music and European avant-garde, "Transcendence" is an intoxicating, musically literate tour-de-force. These richly textured, beautifully balanced compositions are performed with great rigour, lyricism and passion, but above all they are strikingly honest and direct.

Athens-based composer-pianist Tania Giannouli's main area of interest is mixed-media—combining music with poetic texts, visuals, theater plays or art installations. Similarly, Giannouli compositions for her sophomore album Transcendence (after Forest Stories, a duet with Portuguese reed player Paulo Chagas, Rattle Records, 2011) blends elements from her classically-trained background, contemporary music, and European chamber jazz—inspired by the lyrical, often melancholic colors of the ECM school (the album is released by a New Zealand label that follows ECM natural scenery cover art), and Mediterranean folk traditions. These disparate influences inspire Giannouli to create a highly personal effort that defies any attempt to pigeonhole her rich aesthetics. Giannouli is a unique voice, as a composer, pianist and improviser. She has many more musical stories that are waiting to be told.

Tracklist:

01 - The Weeping Willow
02 - The Sea
03 - Sun Dance
04 - The Time Will Come
05 - Faster Than Wear
06 - From Foreign Lands
07 - Obsession
08 - Mad World
09 - Untold
10 - Anti-Masque

Produced by Tania Giannouli.
Recorded by Philip Marinelis at Smart Audio Services.
Edited and mixed by Costas Bokos at Studio 19st.
Mastered by Steve Garden.

Musicians:
Tania Giannouli - piano
Alexandros Botinis - cello
Guido de Flaviis - saxophones
Solis Barki - percussion, idiophones
Giannis Notaras (guest musician) - drums


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