foobar2000 1.1.15 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1 log date: 2023-07-17 18:15:29 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Analyzed: Pascal Schumacher & Echo Collective / Luna -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR Peak RMS Duration Track -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR11 -1.37 dB -16.46 dB 6:07 01-Luna DR8 -1.01 dB -12.26 dB 5:09 02-Rhythmicon DR12 -1.01 dB -17.72 dB 4:27 03-Charles Duke DR11 -5.29 dB -21.14 dB 3:46 04-Nostalgia DR9 -1.00 dB -15.39 dB 8:25 05-Résilience DR12 -1.01 dB -16.43 dB 5:34 06-Infinity DR10 -4.97 dB -20.45 dB 2:07 07-Impromptu DR11 -2.72 dB -18.83 dB 2:59 08-Saint-Lunaire DR10 -1.67 dB -16.47 dB 2:55 09-Molodost -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of tracks: 9 Official DR value: DR10 Samplerate: 48000 Hz Channels: 2 Bits per sample: 24 Bitrate: 1371 kbps Codec: FLAC ================================================================================
Об исполнителях (рус.) | About Artist (ru)
Паскаль ШумахерВибрафонист и композитор Паскаль Шумахер сделал себе имя благодаря большому количеству коллабораций. Выпускник консерваторских училищ Люксембурга и Страсбурга, джазовых отделений Королевских консерваторий Брюсселя и Гааги выступал в составе многих европейских джазовых коллективов, камерных и симфонических ансамблей, играл в дуэте с бельгийским пианистом Джефом Неве (Jef Neve). Кроме того, он выступал с Франческо Тристано и Бачаром Мар-Халифе (на альбоме Afrodiziak) и участвовал в альбоме мюнхенского композитора Араша Сафаяна ÜberBach. Заинтересовавшись электронной музыкой, он распустил свою группу Pascal Schumacher Quartet. От квартета до оркестра, от джазовой до камерной академической музыки, Паскаль выстроил уникальную связь со своим любимым инструментом и добился мирового признания как универсальный и всеядный музыкант. https://www.last.fm/ru/music/Pascal+Schumacher/+wiki Echo CollectiveEcho Collective — бельгийский ансамбль, известный своим тесным сотрудничеством с композитором Йоханом Йоханнссоном и проектом A Winged Victory For The Sullen композиторов Адама Уилци и Дастина О’Хэллорана. Помимо собственных проектов, он сотрудничает со многими современными композиторами и группами в рамках выступлений и записи музыки к фильмам. Коллектив также записывал музыкальное сопровождение для постановок танцевальной компании Уэйна МакГрегора, альтернативные версии альбомов групп Radiohead, Erasure и BURZUM. Звучание, к которому стремятся Echo Collective, подразумевает абсолютную естественность и никакой постобработки, что с лихвой компенсируется широким эмоциональным спектром задействованных в аранжировке инструментов. Их первый сольный альбом с оригинальным материалом под названием The See Within вышел в 2020 году. Восемь авторских произведений были написаны для скрипки, альта, виолончели, арфы и фортепиано с магнитным резонатором (MRP). По словам основателей ансамбля Нила Лейтера (Neil Leiter) и Маргарет Херман (Margaret Hermant), все звуки на альбоме естественные и записаны в реальном времени без какой-либо обработки или постпродакшна, кроме реверберации. «Заглянуть внутрь себя, обнаружить близость и звук, которым вы хотите поделиться, — объясняет Херман. Название альбома отдает дань уважения танцевальной пьесе Лизбет Грувес «Море внутри», прекрасное выражение того, как люди выступают вместе, инстинктивно, но также и органично». https://www.last.fm/ru/music/Echo+Collective/+wiki
Об исполнителях (англ.) | About Artist (en)
Pascal SchumacherPascal Schumacher (born 12 March 1979 in Luxemburg) is a Luxembourgish jazz musician, composer and percussionist who has founded a number of groups including the Pascal Schumacher Quartet. He also plays and composes classical chamber music. Pascal Schumacher studied classical percussion at the Luxembourg Conservatory. He continued his studies at the Strasbourg Conservatory and at the jazz department of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. He obtained master's degrees in jazz-vibraphone at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Frits Landesbergen and in musicology at the Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg. Among those who assisted him in his studies were Gary Burton, David Friedman, Stefon Harris and Charles Loos. Pascal Schumacher at Tonspuren Irsee 2014, Germany. Schumacher cofounded the "Interchange" ensemble with saxophonist Nadine Kauffmann (1995) and, in 2001, the experimental percussion group "Stroke X". From 1997, he became increasingly involved in improvised music, especially jazz, playing with a number of different bands and performing with a variety of artists. In 2002, he set up his own Pascal Schumacher Quartet with Jef Neve (piano), Christophe Devisscher (bass) and Teun Verbruggen (drums). Their first album, Change Of The Moon was released in March 2004, providing the band with opportunities to travel across Europe as well as to Australia and South Africa. Their second album, Personal Legend was released in 2005 and their third, Silbergrau in 2007. In a preview of the quartet's contribution to the London Jazz Festival in November 2010, Thomas Gray characterized Schumacher (vibes) and Franz von Chossy (piano) as "resourceful improvisers, with an abundance of lucid ideas effortlessly articulated over the many shifts of metre. Meanwhile," he comments, "Christophe Devisscher (on bass) and Jens Düppe (on drums) play with a mix of muscle, precision and exquisite dynamic sensitivity." With his quartet, Schumacher has performed at a number of jazz festivals including the North Sea Jazz Festival (Rotterdam), London Jazz Festival, Wangaratta Festival of Jazz, Copenhagen Jazz Festival and JVC Jazz Festival (Paris). They have also performed at clubs and festivals in Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, New York, Paris, Berlin, London, Munich, Liverpool Manchester, Athens, Warsaw, Melbourne, Sydney, Montreal, Toronto, Cape Town, Saigon and Mexico City. Pascal played as soloist with Zürcher Kammerorchester, WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, la Camerata Megaron Athens, l’Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, l’Orchestre de Chambre du Luxembourg, United Instruments of Lucilin, the Kammerorchester Berlin, the Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt and the Junge Norddeutsche Philharmonie. In 2004, Jef Neve and Pascal Schumacher set up a duo (vibraphone and piano) playing a new kind of chamber music combining the sounds of Claude Debussy, Steve Reich and Igor Stravinsky. The duo has been warmly welcomed by the Philharmonie Luxembourg for the "Rising Stars" concert series in some of the largest concert halls in Europe in association with the European Concert Hall Organisation. Pascal Schumacher also teaches at the Luxembourg Conservatory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_Schumacher Echo CollectiveEcho Collective are a Brussels-based orchestral ensemble, founded by Neil Leiter and Margaret Hermant, working in the post-classical world. Echo Collective make interpretations of genres as diverse as alt.rock, synth-pop and black metal, and also create their own original music. The ensemble was created when Margaret Hermant and Neil Leiter collaborated with Adam Wiltzie and Dustin O'Halloran's A Winged Victory For The Sullen. The American-born Leiter was introduced to Wiltzie by their mutual friend, the composer and musician Caroline Shaw. Echo Collective Plays Amnesiac (2018) is a re-working of the Radiohead album Amnesiac. They collaborated with Erasure to create a classical reworking of album World Be Gone, entitled World Beyond and recorded in Brussels in November 2017, featuring seven of there performers including Margaret Hermant on Violin and Harp, Neil Leiter on Viola, Thomas Engelin on Cello, Jaroslaw Mroz on Double Bass, Gart de Cart on piano and Antoine Dandoy on Vibraphone and Glockenspiel[5] 12 Conversations with Thilo Heinzmann (2019) is an album of reworked music by Jóhann Jóhannsson, in line with Jóhannsson's wishes. The suite is inspired by the work of the German abstract painter Thilo Heinzmann. The Sea Within (2020) is an album of Echo Collective's original music. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_Collective
Об альбоме (англ.) | About Album (en)
Info for 'LUNA'Pascal Schumacher’s new album LUNA stands in diametric opposition to his previous release, SOL. And it’s not just the play on the albums’ titles, which already point to the differing moods of lightness and darkness, both releases also stem from opposing creative standpoints. While SOL carried in it a sense of spontaneous discovery as Schumacher, after years of playing with bands and ensembles, ventured out in his first solo endeavour, LUNA captures a more meticulous side to the musician’s work which involved once again composing for other players; more specifically for the Belgium post-classical ensemble Echo Collective, who lends to the album its many layers and textures. Despite the contrasts, SOL and LUNA aren’t in any way antagonistic to each other, much, on the contrary, their duality feels wholly complementary, expressing a natural musical progression much like day gently feeds into the night. Although working with strings wasn't new for Schumacher who has in the past composed for orchestras and ensembles of all kinds, collaborating with Echo Collective on LUNA felt like a unique experience. The Belgium ensemble forged an enviable reputation in the post-classical world: sought out for their instrumental and arranging expertise by icons such as A Winged Victory For The Sullen and the late Jóhann Jóhannsson and known for lending their interpretative intuition to genres as diverse as alt-rock, synth-pop and black metal. “I had always worked with classical string musicians, where you have to provide very complete scores and a lot of information. The musicians of Echo Collective intuitively knew what had to be done,” says Schumacher. The synergy between the musicians can be felt throughout LUNA in the way that Echo Collective seemingly provides the bed or canvas on top of which Schumacher paints with his vibraphone. Although an integral part of the album, the vibraphone does not feel like the protagonist in LUNA, rather it shares the limelight with a glockenspiel, crotales, a marimba as well as synthesizers and Echo Collective’s poignant string segments. The balancing act between these different musical elements becomes strikingly evident on the title track, ‘Luna’ – over a string bed of crescendos and decrescendos, Schumacher’s instrument simply dots the piece, appearing to fill in blank spaces with twinkling light. Like much of LUNA, the piece is a quiet, dimmed-lights meditative journey with hints of nostalgia. Differently from SOL’s improvised vitality, LUNA’s soundworld is a little more pondered, slower perhaps, and more hushed overall. The music is more reflective and in that, it feels more mature, “I used softer mallets than what I usually have on Luna. It wasn’t on purpose, but in the end this softer sound inspired me. It made the vibraphone sound warmer,” explains Schumacher. Single ‘Nostalgia’, the only solo-vibraphone track of the album, demonstrates Schumacher’s attention to acoustic details, “I composed Nostalgia during an evening when my wife was out, and I brought the vibraphone upstairs from the studio and started to experiment with the sounds of the different rooms in the house – first by the window, then in the kitchen,” explains composer. The vibraphone’s softness makes these details shine through, from the tiny reverberations felt after every key, to the echo of the surroundings, it draws listeners upclose to Schumacher in a sort of intimate, late-night encounter. LUNA’s nocturnal feel is mostly conveyed through calm and tenderness, but not every aspect of the after-hours is in fact serene. ‘Rhythmicon’ is the piece which deals with this alternative night-time energy, one that thrives on movement and intensity. Inspired by Leon Theremin’s innovative electro-mechanical musical instrument from the 1930s, ‘Rhythmicon’ is a vigorous percussive track involving multiple and simultaneous rhythmic patterns. “My main synthesizer, the Critter & Guitari Organelle, has a modern version of a rhythmicon on it. I then used the marimba and built lots of additional layers and it became a tribal party of sorts. It's all about rhythm and not much more,” notes Schumacher. The track pays tribute to Steve Reich’s minimal composition ‘Music for 18 Musicians’ in the way the vibraphone’s playing leads the way through the arrangement. The track expresses a sentiment that’s true of the whole album, the magical feeling of being in good company amidst the dark cosmos. Perhaps it derives from the kinship Schumacher found in Echo Collective, or simply an acquaintan-ceship with his own darker side, but either way LUNA is a bright friend in the lonesome night. If SOL started from a place of solitude, LUNA is a reminder of our eternal satellite. released March 25, 2022 https://pascalschumacher.bandcamp.com/album/luna
Состав | Artists
All compositions by Pascal Schumacher Pascal Schumacher, vibraphone, glockenspiel, marimbaphone, crotales, gongs, organelle, synths ECHO Collective
o Margaret Hermant, violin
o Neil Leiter, viola
o Anne-Gabrielle Lia-Aragnouet, cello
