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| 1. | Bidderosa
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| 2. | Flurry
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| 3. | Wake
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| 4. | Tristan's Tune
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| 5. | Moby's Night Out
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| 6. | Falsetto
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| 7. | Dancing for D
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| 8. | Song of Nenna
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| 9. | Tempered
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| 10. | Tiny Adventure
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| 11. | Delicato
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| 12. | Comodo Varan
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| 13. | Tell Me Everything
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Jazz
Ernst Reijseger - violoncello, photography
In April 2008 Ernst Reijseger recorded his second solo album for Winter Winter in a former church with outstanding acoustics. After recording the soundtracks for Werner Herzog's films iRequiem For A Dying Planet/i and Do You Still, the Dutch cellist now returns to the quintessential, pure sounds of his instrument.
All compositions by Ernst Reijseger except tracks, 2, 4, 8
Adrian VonRipka Editing, Mastering
Mariko Takahashi Executive Producer
Stefan F. Winter Producer, Executive Producer, Engineer
Ernst Reijseger, born in Naarden, Holland in 1954, is one of the most important and also extraordinary cellists in the contemporary music scene. His instrument is his voice: his cello sings, laughs, exults, laments, shouts, squeals, bellows, howls, chirps, gets out of hand and then settles down again to hum a simple melody. For ten years Ernst Reijseger and Winter & Winter have worked together to create a very special canon. The most varied projects with the Tenores e Cuncordu from Sardinia, classical artists, singers and percussionists from Africa, and jazz musicians are realised alongside film music for Werner Herzog. Yet Ernst Reijseger keeps coming back to solo performances. Whether in his home city Amsterdam, in Munich, Bordeaux, Lisbon, Milan, Florence, Venice, Moscow, St. Petersburg, New York or Sao Paolo, across the world his unusual concerts are greeted with enthusiasm. Ernst Reijseger always lets himself be inspired by the different atmosphere of each new location, and during his performance he responds with acute sensitivity to the moods of the moment, working these feelings into his work and creating new listening experiences, each of them unique and unreproducible.
In Spring 2008 Ernst Reijseger travels to Tuscany and retreats to the vineyard of Castello di Volpaia, on a hill not far from Greve in Chianti, to record his new album of works for cello. Ernst Reijseger has found a remarkable place that lets him unfold his spirituality in a very special way. The former church of La Commenda di San Eufrosino in Volpaia offers him a refuge where he can form his new sound-image in this particular atmosphere. He lets this wonderful space, this splendid location work on him, consciously incorporating the moods of early morning or the suspense of the night into his playing. The result is melodies of profound beauty, sometimes interrupted by harsh rhythmic strokes and wild sound improvisations. The American painter Jerry Zeniuk is the first to hear the album »Tell Me Everything«, and is so deeply impressed and inspired that he creates new pictures to transpose this music visually.
The singing of the birds of Volpaia in the early morning opens the album »Tell Me Everything«. With "Bidderosa" Ernst Reijseger bursts through the location's specific sounds, unfolding his music with powerful tones and strong lines. A few years earlier, Ernst Reijseger has composed "Bidderosa" on the coast of Sardinia, at a cliff-lined bay called "Bidderosa". After rehearsals with the Tenore e Cuncordu de Orosei, the cellist goes back to the sea by himself and writes this composition. The cellist Tristan Honsinger is one of the cellists Ernst Reijseger prizes most, and "Tristan's Tune" is one of his favourite pieces. Behind almost all of Ernst Reijseger's compositions, there's a little story, and "Moby's Night Out" recalls the underwater songs of whales. For rehearsal work with a dance group, the Dutch cellist records an improvisation in his home in Amsterdam, and since the dancers like the music so much, Ernst Reijseger transcribes this recording, and the result is "Dancing for D". "Tempered" plays with the tuning of notes, and Japanese pianist and composer Fumio Yasuda writes "Song of Nenna" for this exceptional artist, a work that, along with "Flurry", resounds amidst the centuries-old walls of La Commenda.
Tell Me Everything« is a sound performance that Ernst Reijseger records partly in the depths of night, and on the following mornings. Completely on his own, just a couple of almost 50-year-old tube microphones capture his sound waves and record this sound picture. Perhaps one should listen to this album in complete darkness, so as to let Ernst Reijseger's colours and forms bloom fully, just as the colours glow in Jerry Zeniuk's pictures.
--- Stefan Winter (Translation: Richard Toop)
Ernst Reijseger
Active Decades: '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Nov 13, 1954 in Naarden, Netherlands
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Avant-Garde Jazz, Ethnic Fusion, Free Improvisation, Modern Composition, Modern Creative
Cellist Ernst Reijseger became distinguished in avant-garde jazz, contemporary classical, and improvised music as the 1980s and 1990s progressed. In 1985, he won the major Dutch jazz award the Boy Edgar Prijs, was the subject of a television documentary nine years later, and received the North Sea Jazz Festival's prestigious Bird Award the year after. Born in Naarden, Netherlands, in 1954, Reijeseger began playing the cello at the age of eight. He began performing improvised music in the early '70s, collaborating with musicians including Derek Bailey, Martin van Duynhoven, and Michael Moore. Reijseger went on to become a member of the Theo Loevendie Consort, the Amsterdam String Trio, and the Guus Janssen Septet during the '80s; and the Arcado String Trio in the mid-'90s. Throughout both decades, he was a member of Misha Mengelberg's ICP Orchestra, and performed with Gerry Hemingway in various lineups, which included a trio with Hemingway and pianist Georg Graewe starting in the late '80s. Also around this time, Reijseger, Moore, and drummer Han Bennink -- all members of ICP -- formed the Clusone Trio, named for the Italian festival they first played at as a group. They toured all over the world, including a 1995 tour of Australia, China, and Vietnam. With the release of their fifth album (their second on the Hat label; there were others on Gramavision) in 1999, the group called it quits after their ten-year anniversary. Reijseger also left the ICP Orchestra that same year. He continued touring and recording in a variety of settings, including solo (1998's Colla Parte, on Winter & Winter); avant-garde jazz settings (Random Acoustics' releases of GraeweReijsegerHemingway albums and in the Hemingway Quintet's Waltzes, Two-Steps & Other Matters of the Heart on GMRecordings, to name just a few); and even a collaboration with the Sardinian choir Tenore e Concordu de Orosei (released as Colla Voche on Winter & Winter in 1999). Ernst Reijseger has also performed with Yo-Yo Ma, Louis Sclavis, Franky Douglas, Joelle Leandre, Trilok Gurtu, Phil Minton, and more. On occasion, he gives children's cello workshops.
---Joslyn Layne, All Music Guide |
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