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Release Date: 25-09-1998
Label: Erdenklang Musik
Catalog Number: EK81052
Barcode: 723091810524
Musical Style: World
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Darbari - Ank | 4 | Minkar - Suha |
| 2 | Arkab - Marwa | 5 | Prana - Yamam |
| 3 | Alla - Jaunpuris | 6 | Kaushi - Borealis |
Description:
'Zoo of Tranquillity' was inspired by concepts and designs of British artist Paul Spooner, who happens to be a master of sculptural animation. Spooner created an anteater, a lion and a wood-pecker among others, for his book 'Mooving Animals'. Johannes Schmoelling was tempted to capture the magic of little absurd machines cheerfully spinning, lazily grinding, endlessly wiggling. He likes to take his listeners to a Zoo beyond human reasoning where nothing happens to serve a purpose, to make sense or to fulfill a certain goal. 'I like to create scenarios for the ears, to give a certain depth, perspective, colouring and three-dimensional quality to sound textures. I like to arrange them like stage-sets'. This actual version had been re-recorded and remixed in 1996 at Riet Studio Berlin by Johannes Schmoelling. In 1995 Erdenklang Records released his 3rd CD 'Songs No Words', inspired by the piano album 'Lieder ohne Worte' by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, published 1834. Now Schmoelling is working in his own 'Riet-Studio' in Berlin as a composer and producer for theatre, TV- and filmcompanies.
Biography:
László Hortobágyi's music is fiction and reality at the same time. He creates musical worlds in which we can rediscover ourselves, just to forget ourselves all over again. The essence of his music is that the 20th century was not culturally influenced by the Occident, but from the Orient instead, just imagine that the Western and Asian polyphony had united, such as, for example, baroque organ music with phrases of Indian Ragas. A harpsichord player performing Northern Indian sitar music on his polyphonic instrument supported by a psychedelic reggae bass. Or an orthodox Slavic church choir was to sing in a classic Indian 'Dhrupad' style, in the course of which repetitive gamelan music utilised compositions of Indian ragas during an electronic rock concert in Java... In 1980 he founded the 'Gayan Uttejak Society', which received its name from the Hindu- Mohammed Music Association that existed from 1884 to 1917 and that was founded by V. N. Bhatkhande. This society expanded in 1984 with the addition of a unique Eastern music archive and a modern electronic studio. LászIó Hortobágyi lives in Budapest as a musician (Rudra-vinâ, Sitar-Surbâhâr, Tablâ), when he is not traveling to Asian or Arabian countries for recordings or research.
