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| 1. | Alpha: Prologue
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| 2. | Alpha: Prologue and One Piano Oracle
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| 3. | Alpha: Prologue and Two Piano Oracles
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| 4. | Alpha: Prologue and Three Piano Oracles
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| 5. | Alpha: Prologue and Four Piano Oracles
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| 6. | Alpha: Prologue and Five Piano Oracles
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| 7. | Alpha: Prologue and Six Piano Oracles
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| 8. | Alpha: Prologue and Seven Piano Oracles
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| 9. | Alpha: Prologue and Eight Piano Oracles
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| 10. | Alpha: Prologue and Nine Piano Oracles
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| 11. | Alpha: Prologue and Ten Piano Oracles
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| 12. | Beta: Le Mans Piano Oracles [Live]
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Jazz / Modern Creative, Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Piano Jazz
Alpha recorded in Athens, Studio C in March 1987; Beta recorded live at the Le Mans Europa Jazz Festival on 19 April 1985.
Sakis Papadimitriou, piano
Cover photograph by Aris Georgiou at the site of the Tholos in Delphi.
Recorded live at Le Mans Europe Jazz Festival in 1985 and in Athens' studio in 1987 this CD features a unique way of solo piano playing by Sakis Papadimitriou, whose piano sounds as koto, zither, lute or any other imaginable instrument, the music retaining a very Greek feel.
Sakis Papadimitrious is an autodidact of the piano; he knows every square centimeter of its surface and insides from toy instrument to double grand. He has exploited its many timbral, harmonic, melodic, and percussive possibilities in order to create a music that is widely varied in color, and deeply mystical in flavor. This CD, which is a reissue of the LP Piano Oracles and the B-side of the album First Move were recorded in both studio and performance. His alpha archetype is a "Prologue and Ten Piano Oracles" and his beta archetype is called "Les Man Piano." Almost an hour in length, what the listener is touched by is the process by which Papadimitrious creates rituals that give shape to dreams, fantasies, fears, joys, and so on. He employs any means necessary in which to accomplish this, from playing the instrument without the pedals, to using only pedals, to filling it with rough material and plucking individual strings to playing those same strings, unobstructed, with mallets. The "10 Oracles" are musical in the same way life is -- sounds emanating from anywhere -- often organized in patterns we become aware of but are not party to at their inception because they exist below or above our normal level of consciousness. Papadimitrious, with his vast knowledge of the instrument, can employ different harmonics and modal figures by erecting an eerie architecture of microtones and their microtones. All of them flowing in controlled mannerisms creating and releasing tensions as they overlap with one another into a language that is both highly symbolic and deeply intriguing on the level of improvisation. "Les Mans Piano" is more pianistic yet more primitive. Repetitive figures announce themselves as rhythmic constructs and are transmogrified into melodic frameworks for two-handed counterpoint and harmony. Silences are etched in between intervals in its 12-minute duration to offer dynamic placement for elegiac phrases and whispers along the keyboard. By the time we reach the last third of the work, the piano is no longer a piano; it is a drone machine and an industrial tool for the pressing out of shimmering notes played from inside the piano and screeching their way -- ever quietly into an etching on the mind, creating in the listener an entirely new vision of the piano as an instrument of improvisation and archetypal image-making. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide
Sakis Papadimitriou
Birthday: 05/01/1940
Birth Place: Kavala, Greece
Decades Active: 1960,1970,1980,1990,2000
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Free Improvisation, Jazz Instrument, Piano Jazz, Modern Creative
Moods: Cerebral, Complex, Difficult, Sophisticated, Uncompromising |
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