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Joost Lijbaart – Free (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:58 minutes | 894 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Challenge Records
“Free is an album I’ve wanted to make all my life. I didn’t know how, I was too busy and I was also a bit afraid of it.
And then there was a time when the world seemed to come to a standstill. A time of reflection and contemplation. It gave me the energy to embark on an inner dialogue, spiritually and musically.
Free became an inward journey. And on the way I found desolation and fear but also power, joy, passion and infinity. Free is all about unity, about becoming ‘one’, but also about space and time. About what lies deep within and sometimes long concealed. “
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Wolfert Brederode, Matangi Quartet, Joost Lijbaart – Ruins and Remains (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:46 minutes | 876 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
Ruins and Remains, a suite for piano, string quartet and percussion, was composed by the Dutch pianist Wolfert Breferode in 2018, to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I.
Over time, however, it has come to embody meanings broader and more personal, with wide-ranging resonances. “At a number of levels, the piece has to do with grief and loss and learning to stand up again,” Brederode says. There is a vulnerable but resilient quality to the music, as it hovers over its emotional terrain, with moods both bleak and guardedly hopeful.
Highly sensitive playing by Brederode, percussionist Joost Lijbaart and the Matangi Quartet (increasingly regarded as one of Holland’s most adventurous string quartets), distinguish a special album recorded in Bremen’s Sendesaal in August 2021 and produced by Manfred Eicher.
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