Stephan Micus: White Night - COMPACT DISCS

Stephan Micus: White Night - COMPACT DISCSTitle: White Night Artist: Stephan Micus Label: Ecm Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 602577362200 Genre: Jazz Release Date: 2019 04 26 Number of Discs: 1 2019 release. Stephan Micus is an extraordinary musical traveler, exploring the world, collecting instruments and then creating his own musical worlds from them. This is his 23rd album for ECM and on each one he composes the tracks, plays and overdubs them to create unique and exquisite

Title: White Night
Artist: Stephan Micus
Label: Ecm Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 602577362200
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2019-04-26
Number of Discs: 1

2019 release. Stephan Micus is an extraordinary musical traveler, exploring the world, collecting instruments and then creating his own musical worlds from them. This is his 23rd album for ECM and on each one he composes the tracks, plays and overdubs them to create unique and exquisite pieces of chamber music. The ten tracks on White Night particularly rely on the sound of various sub-Saharan kalimba (thumb pianos) and the oboe-like Armenian duduk. There are two purely solo tracks, 'All the Way' on a kalimba from Botswana and 'The Moon' on Armenian duduk, while 'Fireflies' has 22 overdubs of Indian whistles, Micus's voice and other instruments. "I dedicate this album to the moon which has always been a source of magic in many cultures," says Micus. "Music too is a source of magic which is where the two connect". Aside from his 14-string guitar, Micus plays instruments from Armenia, Tibet, India, Egypt, Ghana, Senegal, Tanzania, Botswana, Namibia and Ethiopia, most of them in combinations never heard before.

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