"This Is America - An Anthology 2020-2021" Limited Edition Triple CD, with a 40-page booklet, beautifully designed by Christopher Kornmann, Spit + Image Design.
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Sinekemān, commissioned and written for violinist Johnny Gandelsman, is a study on solitude.
As I had wished to depict one's relationship with solitude, the ultimate condition of being faced with incomprehension, and an ongoing flux of moments of self-sufficiency and struggle, lucidity and confusion, power and despair, already depicted by the aloneness of a solo instrument, I wished to embody it by invoking the sinekemān, an Ottoman ancestor of the violin, characterized by its' seven sympathetic strings ; creating a contrast between the wholeness of the sound and the sustained resonance of these strings, and the fragility of the textures of its' gut strings. - Layale Chaker
"Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt
In solitude, where we are least alone;
A truth, which through our being then doth melt,
And purifies from self: it is a tone,
The soul and source of music, which makes known
Eternal harmony, and sheds a charm
Like to the fabled Cytherea’s zone,
Binding all things with beauty;—’t would disarm
The spectre Death, had he substantial power to harm."
- Lord Byron (1788-1824), from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: Night and Tempest
"Sinekeman" was generously commissioned by the Portland Chamber Music Festival (Portland, ME)
supported by 19 fans who also own “Layale Chaker - "Sinekemān", for violin”
I saw them perform for free in Bryant Park in NYC; I had no idea who they were; boy was I pleased. By the way, Attacca is a musical term that means to literally attack a note. dlummox
supported by 19 fans who also own “Layale Chaker - "Sinekemān", for violin”
This is one of the most exciting cds I've heard in ages and I feel LUCKY to have discovered Wild Up and their recordings of Julius Eastman. Wow!! jamesaarons
There’s a quiet beauty to this remix album of compositions by Michael Vincent Waller, with contributions from JLin, Prefuse 73, & more. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 1, 2024
supported by 18 fans who also own “Layale Chaker - "Sinekemān", for violin”
Another part of this project's extensive dedication to the works of the truly great Julius Eastman, whose legend and status as one of America's major composers grows expidentially with the passing of each and every year. Gavin Hellyer