Alboras

バンドネオンの巨匠、ディノ・サルーシのソロ・アルバム。

デュオ、トリオからファミリー・バンド、オーケストラまで、様々な編成で高い評価を得てきたアルゼンチンの偉大なバンドネオン奏者ディノ・サルーシだが、ソロの作品はなんと32年ぶり!

初期のソロ・アルバム「Kultrum」と「Andina」は、彼の母アルゼンチン以外での評価を確立したが、2019年2月から6月にかけてブエノスアイレスのSaluzzi Music Studioで録音されたこの作品は、偉大な繊細さを持つ音楽の語り部としてのディノの才能をパワフルに思い出させてくれる。 この親密な録音での彼の作品は、初期の思い出にまで遡り、"Don Caye "は "Cayetano Saluzziの作品の変奏曲 "と副題されており、ディノの父への最も感動的な献呈となっている。 バンドネオン奏者は、楽器と演奏者が一体となって呼吸している間の時間の流れに思いを馳せている。

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Dino Saluzzi (bandoneon)

Albores is composer and master bandoneonist Dino Saluzzis first solo album since 1988s Andina. That recording, beloved by so many for its solitary approach and reflective pieces, echoed back through the composers cultural biography as well as his reflections on family, history, and everyday life in early 20th century Argentina. In addition to Kultrum, his 1983 label debut, Andina cemented Saluzzis reputation as a musical storyteller who worked not in dictated narratives, but through the misty sense impressions of place, presence, and memory. Unlike its predecessors, however, wherein he also played flutes and percussion, the pieces on Albores are performed exclusively on the bandoneon, the large accordion-like instrument capable of delivering different notes depending on whether its bellows are pushed or pulled. Recorded between February and April at his studio in Buenos Aires, Albores translates as daybreak. Its title is poignant: It signifies Saluzzis intention to illuminate, however non-specifically, more experiences from his long life. Strangely, perhaps, it commences with a sorrowful farewell in Adios Maestro Kancheli. It was composed after the passing of Georgian composer and friend Giya Kancheli in 2019. Back in 2011, Saluzzi, violinist Gidon Kremer, and Kremerata Baltica vibraphonist Andrei Pushkarev performed his music in a 75th birthday tribute on ECM titled Giya Kancheli: Themes from the Songbook. The tender yet mournful tune is underscored by the proceeding Ausencias, a prayerful paean to and admission of loneliness. Its sparse melody and staggered chordal lines are offered with only a bare minimum of lyric adornment. Segun Me Cuenta la Vida - Milonga translates as As Life Tells Me. Its a circular, slowly unfolding poetic dance inspired by Jorge Luis Borges evocation of the power of memory in early 20th century. Its one of two pieces inspired by the author here; the other is Ficcion, titled after Borges many short stories wherein seemingly unrelated tensions emerge from the senses to intersect and inform one another. Intimo offers a stark, moving recollection in the Buenos Aires springtime of Saluzzis youth. La Cruz del Sur was inspired by the second stanza in the tenth poem of Jose Hernandezs Gaucho Martin Fierro about Argentine cowboys breaking horses. Don Caye – Variaciones Sobre Obra de Cayetano Saluzzi pays homage to the music, inspiration, and example of Saluzzis famous father. He quotes from several of the elders compositions in acknowledging the role of family in his own artistic life. Albores closes with Ofrenda - Tocata, an in-the-moment improvised reflection on mystery: In music, in the spiritual life, and in the artists faith in what emerges from the souls depths spontaneously. An exercise in haunted beauty from beginning to end, Albores depicts the process of discovery as fluid, evolutionary, undying. This recital intimately portrays Saluzzis total immersion in the world of sound and his experience in it as the connective tissue of his life. ~ Thom Jurek