Transcendence by Tania Giannouli Ensemble
CRITICALLY REVERED RELEASE OF THE YEAR
Greek pianist/composer Tania Giannouli follows her 2012 Rattle debut (Forest Stories, with Paulo Chagas) with a recording featuring the newly formed Tania Giannouli Ensemble. With influences as diverse as contemporary classical, Greek folk music, modern jazz, world music and European avant-garde, Transcendence is an intoxicating, musically literate tour-de-force. These richly textured, beautifully balanced compositions are performed with great rigour, lyricism and passion, but above all they are strikingly honest and direct.
"Transcendence: going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding.
This suite of compositions reflect on themes of Time, Life and Creation based on impressions and experiences during hard times: the essential and the trivial; lies and illusions; change and responsibility; action and reaction; light and darkness; beauty, emptiness, faith, and fear. For me, this music contemplates a wild and crazy world that surely cannot be all there is, and nostalgia for an as yet unknown happy future. Above all, this album is about my motherland."
Tania Giannouli, 2015
Tracklist
| 1. | The Weeping Willow | 4:16 |
| 2. | The Sea | 7:27 |
| 3. | Sun Dance | 5:29 |
| 4. | The Time Will Come | 3:40 |
| 5. | Faster Than Wear | 3:10 |
| 6. | From Foreign Lands | 6:32 |
| 7. | Obsession | 5:34 |
| 8. | Mad World | 8:05 |
| 9. | Untold | 4:57 |
Credits
Produced by Tania Giannouli
Recorded by Philip Marinelis at Smart Audio Services
Edited and mixed by Costas Bokos at Studio 19st
Mastered by Steve Garden at Garden Shed Music Studio, Auckland (NZ)
Photography by Ilias Bourgiotis
Design by UnkleFranc
Printing by Studio Q (NZ) and Orfanos (Greece)
All compositions © Tania Giannouli, 2015
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Pianist, composer, improviser and band leader Tania Giannouli is one of the most vital voices in contemporary Greek/European music. Classically trained, she regularly employs improvisation in her musical practice, as can be heard on all five of her Rattle releases to date. Every release has received wide international acclaim, and Tania is only getting going.