Fie Schouten, Vincent Courtois & Guus Janssen – VOSTOK: Remote Islands (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Fie Schouten, Vincent Courtois & Guus Janssen – VOSTOK: Remote Islands (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:56 minutes | 537 MB | Genre: Jazz
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The music is improvised and inspired by the book of Judith Schalansky. The music is an echo of her writing, of inspiration by islands, entities with different and changing characteristics. Judith Schalansky: “Atlas of Remote Islands, 50 islands I never set foot on and never will” Original: “Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln” (2009, Mare Verlag)

“The echoes of Judith Schalansky’s writing are innumerable…. overlooked maps, forbidden manuscripts, anonymous reports, medieval codices, letters of hope and despair. It depends on each reader, on the way we allow ourselves to be nourished by books that are run through by accuracy, multiplicity and consistency… Her writing explores ancestral labyrinths and forking paths, and oscillates between the sublime and the sinister, but breaks away from dualistic mirages.” (Juan Insua, 8.3.2022)

Tracklist:
01. Fie Schouten – Tristan da Cunha (Atlantic Ocean) (03:59)
02. Fie Schouten – Diego Garcia (Indian Ocean) (03:00)
03. Fie Schouten – Rapa Iti I (Pacific Ocean) (01:53)
04. Fie Schouten – Howland (Pacific Ocean) (01:49)
05. Fie Schouten – Cocos Islands (Indian Ocean) (03:09)
06. Fie Schouten – Raoul Island (Pacific Ocean) (11:58)
07. Fie Schouten – Vostok (Pacific Ocean) (07:15)
08. Fie Schouten – Pukapuka (Pacific Ocean) (06:12)
09. Fie Schouten – Solitude Island (Arctic Ocean) (04:42)
10. Fie Schouten – Socorro (Pacific Ocean) (06:41)
11. Fie Schouten – Rapa Iti II (Pacific Ocean) (03:06)
12. Fie Schouten – Inaccessible Island Rail (bird) (02:09)

Personnel:
Fie Schouten – bass clarinet, clarinet in A, basset horn
Vincent Courtois – violoncello
Guus Janssen – piano, organ, harmonium, harpsichord
Giuseppe Doronzo – baritone saxophone (tracks 6-8, 10)

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