Label: Globe
Format: CD
Barcode: 8711525526907
Catalog number: GLO 5269
Releasedate: 06-03-20
Format: CD
Barcode: 8711525526907
Releasedate: 06-03-20
- After many years of playing improvisations within normal classical programs, this album is Saskia Coolen's first completely improvised album.
- The packaging features Margriet Oomen's art inspired by Saskia Coolen's improvisations. It also includes six leporellos with Oomen's art works specially created for this album
- The packaging features Margriet Oomen's art inspired by Saskia Coolen's improvisations. It also includes six leporellos with Oomen's art works specially created for this album
- This album is made in a hand numbered limited edition of 500 copies
In the spring of 2017 Saskia Coolen stayed as an artist-in-residence for almost 7 weeks in the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Oregon. Her original plan to improve her old-style improvisation skills was put in a different light by the remark: we don't expect anything from you, take the time and see what happens. "This is a gift of time."
She started 'playing' and experimenting. New ideas germinated there. New material in old forms and existing music in new forms. Inspired by early music, the shakuhachi, beat boxes, minimal music, playing with lego and the nature of Oregon. So everything.
Back in the Netherlands, people in her Zen meditation group sometimes listened to her improvisations and decided that a CD should be made. Their silent attentive presence at the recordings was essential. Visual artist Margriet Oomen made drawings inspired by the music for this album. A number of these drawings are folded into the cover as loose leporellos.