MICUS STEPHAN

(CD) INLAND SEA
Inland Sea is Stephan Micus' 22nd solo album for ECM, each one taking his audience on musical journeys to far-flung places and unique sound worlds. For decades, he has been travelling, collecting and studying musical instruments from all over the world and creating new music for them. Micus often combines instruments from different cultures and continents that would never normally be played together, adapting and extending them, and rarely playing them in a traditional manner. The instruments then become a cast of characters that help tell...
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(CD) PANAGIA
Η ελληνική θρησκευτική παράδοση είναι ένα γνώριμο πεδίο για τον Stephan Micus. Έχουν περάσει 20 σχεδόν χρόνια από τότε που εντυπωσιασμένος από την επίσκεψή του στο Άγιο Όρος αισθάνθηκε την ανάγκη να καταγράψει την εμπειρία του και τα συναισθήματά του δημιουργώντας μια ενότητα συνθέσεων υπό τον τίτλο Άθως (Athos). Έκτοτε, ο Micus επισκέφτηκε το Άγιο Όρος οκτώ φορές προσδοκώντας να ανακαλύψει και να εμβαθύνει στις παραδόσεις της Ορθοδοξίας. Αν το Άθως ήταν μια αναφορά στο χώρο και την πνευματικότητα που υποβάλλει, σημειώνει ο ίδιος, η αναφορ...
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(CD) ATHOS
Stephan Micus: Bavarian zither, sattar, shakuhachi, suling, nay, flowerpots, voice. Recorded November 1993-February 1994...
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(CD) OCEAN
Recorded January 1986. Born in 1953 in Germany, Stephan Micus made his first journey to the Orient at the age of sixteen. Fascinated by the variety of musical cultures around the world Micus has travelled in virtually every Asian and European country as well as in Africa and the Americas. Studying with local master musicians he learned to play numerous traditional instruments, many of them unknown in the Western world. However, Micus's intention is not to play these instruments in a traditional manner, but rather to develop the fresh music...
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(CD) NOMAD SONGS
In his journeys all over the world Stephan Micus seeks to study and understand traditional instruments, the sounds that they produce and the cultures that brought them to life. He then composes original pieces for them, combining instruments that would never normally be heard together, chosen from different cultures simply for their character, texture and sonic beauty. Nomad Songs is his 21st album for ECM; he plays nine different instruments, but emphasizes two he hasn't used before: The first is the Moroccan genbri, a lute covered with c...
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(CD) DESERT POEMS
Micus expands his already broad musical horizons on Desert Poems, his 15th solo project, which he recorded between 1997 and 2000 in his studio on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca. Among the "firsts" on Desert Poems are Micus's recorded debuts playing three African instruments - the doussn' gouni, (a West African harp), the kalimba (a Tanzanian thumb piano) and the dondon (a talking drum from Ghana); his singing in English (a haunting solo a cappella performance called "Contessa Entellina" and on "For Yuko", dedicated to his daughter) a...
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(CD) BOLD AS LIGHT
"Η ιδέα του να καθίσω μπροστά από ένα τραπέζι και να γράψω μια σύνθεση στο χαρτί είναι μια κατάσταση εντελώς ξένη προς εμένα. Για να καταλήξω σε ένα κομμάτι της μουσικής, πρέπει να δημιουργήσω τον ήχο, έχοντας κάποιο όργανο στα χέρια μου." Ο Stephan Micus (1953) έχει μια ιδιαίτερη και έντονη σχέση με τα ασυγκέραστα όργανα που παίζει. Πολλά από αυτά προέρχονται από την Ασία ή την Αφρική, και κατάγονται από πανάρχαιες μουσικές παραδόσεις. Ορισμένα από αυτά τα όργανα δεν χρησιμοποιούνται πια ενώ άλλα μπορεί να τα συνατήσει κανείς μόνο ως εκθ...
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(CD) IMPLOSIONS
Recorded March 1977...
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(CD) WINGS OVER WATER
Part 1 5 Acoustic Guitars Nay Part 2 Sarangi Voice 6 Flowerpots Part 3 2 Spanish Guitars 9 Flowerpots Part 4 Nay Solo Part 5 22 Flowerpots Nay Part 6 3 Spanish Guitars 4 Bavarian Zithers Suling...
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(CD) THE MUSIC OF STONES
Elmar Daucher's resonating stones have haunted me since I first heard them on Klangsteine-Steinklange (released 1990 on ProViva). While not conceptually unique (stone instruments, notes Micus, have at least a 2500-year history), Daucher's playable sculptures nevertheless speak with voices all their own. They are, as anyone familiar will tell you, enchanting enough on their own terms, but to hear them in the context of Stephen Micus's visceral melodies is to hear them as the source of some nameless creation. For the most part Micus has had ...
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(CD) SNOW
German multi-instrumentalist Stephan Micus (born 1953) with his 18th release for ECM: an eight-part suite, once again combining instruments from many different world regions. Micus' approach to music-making originates in his extended travels through Asia, South America and Africa since 1972. He has never contented himself with learning the playing techniques of indigenous instruments but always seeks to remove them from their cultural contexts and to compose a new sound world for them. Employing multi-track recording, the opulent choirs an...
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(CD) TOWARDS THE WIND
"Towards The Wind", the 15th ECM recording by the perennially popular world-traveller and multi-instrumentalist, features his debut performances on the Armenian duduk, that exceptionally expressive forerunner of the oboe and the clarinet. Stephan Micus was inspired by recordings of the great duduk virtuoso Jivan Gasparian and was able to study with Armenia's greatest folk musician in Yerevan in the autumn of 1999. Gasparian passed along to him some of the instrument's secrets, the ways in which its wealth of textures and sounds can be anne...
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