Music for Violin Alone, by Aisha Orazbayeva

Music for Violin Alone

by Aisha Orazbayeva

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1.	Angharad Davies: Circular Bowing Study 06:11	info	buy track
2.	Johann Sebastian Bach: Largo from Sonata no. 3 in C major 03:20	info	buy track
3.	Nicola Matteis Jr: Alia Fantasia 02:37	info	buy track
4.	Oliver Leith: Blurry Wake Song 04:26	info	buy track
5.	James Tenney: Koan 08:23	info	buy track
6.	John Cage: Eight Whiskus 07:11	info	buy track
7.	Aisha Orazbayeva: Ring 05:53	info	buy track

about

After the digital only self-release of Aisha's fourth solo album in May we are pleased to release the CD in early July.

"Music for Violin Alone" was recorded in a makeshift studio in an empty house in Le Poujol sur Orb during the first two weeks of the French lockdown. Recorded both as a response to all loss of work due to COVID-19 and a way to be heard again. The pieces on the album are the pieces I’ve come to discover and learn during the two years of maternity leave. Two years of maternity leave have also been two years of creative silence, a search for new approaches, repertoire and ways of playing.
Only after finishing the recording process I realised the connection between the works - they have all been written by or dedicated to violinists-composers (with Oliver Leith being an exception) - J.S.Bach, Angharad Davies, Nicola Matteis Jr., Malcolm Goldstein (dedicatee of Cage’s Eight Whiskus and Tenney’s Koan).
The album opens with Circular Bowing Study by Angharad Davies - an extended exploration of a technique no matter how limited, it continues back through the ages with works that are filled with silence (Bach, Cage and Leith) and works with almost total absence of it (Tenney, Matteis), and closes with my own composition - broken harmonics of a string trapped inside a ring.
It’s like a map of invisible violin sounds where past and present pathways are being drawn and redrawn over and over again until they are confined to a single technique or a broken sound or disappear into a total silence.

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released July 1, 2020

Recorded by Aisha Orazbayeva
Mixed and edited by Peiman Khosravi
Album cover photo by Scarlett Casiello
Album cover design by Paul Rafferty

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