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Extension / Svjetlana Bukvich
Navona

Extension / Svjetlana Bukvich

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Details

Composer
BUKVICH, SVJETLANA
Artist
Various
Format
CD
Label
Navona
Released
Mar 27, 2020
Catalog #
NV6276
UPC
896931005760

About

Navona Records presents European/American composer Svjetlana Bukvich’s latest masterpiece: EXTENSION, a multifaceted collection of pieces that use technology, music, and the motions of dance to both deconstruct and reimagine ideas of genre and cultural division. In EXTENSION, listeners traverse ten innovative pieces that are both deeply personal and universal. Bukvich describes herself as aiming for a “no-genre-borderless-flow” with her music and, on a larger scale, in the structures of human society. Indeed, she captures that spirit immensely: hybridizing musical languages from American minimalism, art and progressive rock, and German classicism, to Italian polyphony, Russian romanticism, jazz, and ethnic idioms, she creates a cinematic, ‘fictocritical’ sound that is entirely unique but at once familiar. From the opening whispers of the electric violin in The Beginning to the evocative title track Extension which mingles both voice and synth, the album is a sweeping conversation between the natural and technological, the language of sound and the language of numbers. The piece Once You Are Not a Stranger appears in three iterations: instrumentally, vocally, and as an orchestral reprise. The meditative return of the piece emphasizes the expression of its title — in the acceptance of profound loss and the redemptive possibilities that extend out of it, there is no division, and no one is a stranger. The composer herself knows the world’s need for connection all too well — her past includes an escape from her home in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina in the midst of the Civil War before finding her way to America where she continued her pursuits in media arts. In her youth Bukvich has lived in Ethiopia and Scotland, experiences which also influenced her sonic ideas. EXTENSION offers an opportunity for reconnection through dismantling, rebuilding, and exploring concepts of time, style, and musical history.

Tracklist 10 tracks

  1. 1 The Beginning 06:21
    Track
    1
    Title
    The Beginning
    Duration
    06:21
    Composer
    Svjetlana Bukvich
    Performer
    Svjetlana Bukvich, Susan Aquila, David Rozenblatt
  2. 2 Utopia 03:35
    Track
    2
    Title
    Utopia
    Duration
    03:35
    Composer
    Svjetlana Bukvich
    Performer
    Philip Hamilton, Susan Aquila, Jacqueline Kerrod, Svjetlana Bukvich, Patrick Derivaz, Wylie Wirth
  3. 3 Extension 04:16
    Track
    3
    Title
    Extension
    Duration
    04:16
    Composer
    Svjetlana Bukvich
    Performer
    Kamala Sankaram, Samille Ganges, Svjetlana Bukvich
  4. 4 Once You are Not a Stranger (version for string quartet) 04:10
    Track
    4
    Title
    Once You are Not a Stranger (version for string quartet)
    Duration
    04:10
    Composer
    Svjetlana Bukvich
    Performer
    Patrick Derivaz, Svjetlana Bukvich
    Ensemble
    ETHEL
  5. 5 Graves 06:43
    Track
    5
    Title
    Graves
    Duration
    06:43
    Composer
    Svjetlana Bukvich
    Performer
    Philip Hamilton, Jacqueline Kerrod, Nikola Radan, Richard Viard, Svjetlana Bukvich, Wylie Wirth
  6. 6 Tattoo 04:29
    Track
    6
    Title
    Tattoo
    Duration
    04:29
    Composer
    Svjetlana Bukvich
    Performer
    Kamala Sankaram, Svjetlana Bukvich
  7. 7 Stairs 02:40
    Track
    7
    Title
    Stairs
    Duration
    02:40
    Composer
    Svjetlana Bukvich
    Performer
    Raphael Saphra, Joseph Brock, Svjetlana Bukvich
  8. 8 Once You are Not a Stranger 02:00
    Track
    8
    Title
    Once You are Not a Stranger
    Duration
    02:00
    Composer
    Svjetlana Bukvich
    Performer
    Janis Brenner, Svjetlana Bukvich, Patrick Derivaz
  9. 9 Nema Te (You Aren't Here, You Aren't There) 04:27
    Track
    9
    Title
    Nema Te (You Aren't Here, You Aren't There)
    Duration
    04:27
    Composer
    Svjetlana Bukvich
    Performer
    Jane Manning, Kamala Sankaram, Bojan Gorišek, Svjetlana Bukvich
  10. 10 Once You are Not a Stranger (version for orchestra) 04:31
    Track
    10
    Title
    Once You are Not a Stranger (version for orchestra)
    Duration
    04:31
    Composer
    Svjetlana Bukvich
    Performer
    Patrick Derivaz, Svjetlana Bukvich
    Ensemble
    Shattered Glass Ensemble