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Carpe Diem

Blumer: Anklam

$20.99

Details

Composer
Fridolin Blumer
Artist
Fridolin Blumer
Format
CD
Label
Carpe Diem
Released
Nov 15, 2024
Catalog #
CD-16337
UPC
4032324163372

About

The first solo album of Swiss double bass player and composer Fridolin Blumer is an exceptional album, even for the rarity-driven catalogue of Carpe Diem Records. Acting as a stylistic counterpoint to the many Early Music solo albums on the label, "Anklam" is a solo album of entirely improvised contemporary double bass music, focusing on instantaneous musical creation in the moment, instead of reviving century-old compositions. Fridolin Blumer is a jazz musician who has dedicated his whole musical career to exploring music beyond the written score, even beyond formal musical concepts. His style is not easily determined by conventional understanding of music. His music is primarily sound that evolves and moves in time, creating structures while moving through and past them, taking the listener on an unforeseeable trip into the feeling and thinking process of the creative mind. His music is non-descriptive, not trying to depict anything outside of itself, not telling a story other than it's own. The album is called Anklam simply because that's where it was recorded. It is split into twelve pieces just to give it a conceivable structure. The parts have numbers, as they together form a sort of larger musical structure. Any intrinsic meaning, inner beauty or musical logic remains at the listener's disposal to be discovered, heard or felt. Fridolin Blumer opens a vast space of possibilities of understanding and insight by staying as grounded and elementary as possible. In this way, he creates a sonic artwork that is at the same time spiritual and deeply human. "The line I trace with my feet walking to the museum is more important and more beautiful than the lines I find there hung up on the walls." (F. Hundertwasser)

Tracklist 12 tracks

  1. 1 Anklam I 02:08
    Track
    1
    Title
    Anklam I
    Duration
    02:08
    Composer
    Fridolin Blumer
    Performer
    Fridolin Blumer
  2. 2 Anklam II 03:07
    Track
    2
    Title
    Anklam II
    Duration
    03:07
    Composer
    Fridolin Blumer
    Performer
    Fridolin Blumer
  3. 3 Anklam III 04:32
    Track
    3
    Title
    Anklam III
    Duration
    04:32
    Composer
    Fridolin Blumer
    Performer
    Fridolin Blumer
  4. 4 Anklam IV 03:05
    Track
    4
    Title
    Anklam IV
    Duration
    03:05
    Composer
    Fridolin Blumer
    Performer
    Fridolin Blumer
  5. 5 Anklam V 03:12
    Track
    5
    Title
    Anklam V
    Duration
    03:12
    Composer
    Fridolin Blumer
    Performer
    Fridolin Blumer
  6. 6 Anklam VI 03:08
    Track
    6
    Title
    Anklam VI
    Duration
    03:08
    Composer
    Fridolin Blumer
    Performer
    Fridolin Blumer
  7. 7 Anklam VII 05:34
    Track
    7
    Title
    Anklam VII
    Duration
    05:34
    Composer
    Fridolin Blumer
    Performer
    Fridolin Blumer
  8. 8 Anklam VIII 04:55
    Track
    8
    Title
    Anklam VIII
    Duration
    04:55
    Composer
    Fridolin Blumer
    Performer
    Fridolin Blumer
  9. 9 Anklam IX 03:33
    Track
    9
    Title
    Anklam IX
    Duration
    03:33
    Composer
    Fridolin Blumer
    Performer
    Fridolin Blumer
  10. 10 Anklam X 05:29
    Track
    10
    Title
    Anklam X
    Duration
    05:29
    Composer
    Fridolin Blumer
    Performer
    Fridolin Blumer
  11. 11 Anklam XI 03:11
    Track
    11
    Title
    Anklam XI
    Duration
    03:11
    Composer
    Fridolin Blumer
    Performer
    Fridolin Blumer
  12. 12 Anklam XII 01:17
    Track
    12
    Title
    Anklam XII
    Duration
    01:17
    Composer
    Fridolin Blumer
    Performer
    Fridolin Blumer