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Gísladóttir: Caeli / Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
Sono Luminus

Gísladóttir: Caeli / Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson

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Composer
GISLADOTTIR SVERRISSON
Artist
Gisladottir, Sverrisson
Format
CD
Label
Sono Luminus
Released
Apr 02, 2021
Catalog #
SLE-70020
UPC
053479702029

About

Caeli is spun out of the idea of skies and dimensions merging into a boarderless being boasting of a rich and vivid texture, at times carrying numerous worlds inside at once. During the recording of Caeli, Bára and Skúli would have long discussions about how the world is opening up and how this would and could affect music as well. They like to look at Caeli as a product of this openness - a crystallisation of freedom, exposure and transparency in sound. Bára Gísladóttir (born 1989) is an Icelandic composer and double bassist based in Copenhagen. She studied composition at the Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Conservatorio di Musica "Giuseppe Verdi" in Milan and at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. Bára´s pieces have been selected for festivals such as Dark Music Days, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, International Rostrum of Composers, KLANG Festival, Nordic Music Days and Ung Nordisk Musik. She has received the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Foundation’s Talent Awards, Léonie Sonning Talent Prize, The Reykjavík Grapevine's Music Awards, and has been nominated to the Carl Prize as 'Composer of the year', the Kraumur Music Awards three times for 'Album of the year' and The Icelandic Music Awards twice for 'Piece of the year'. Bára is an active performer and regularly plays her own music, mostly solo or with her long time collaborator, Skúli Sverrisson. In addition to this, she is the double bassist of Elja Ensemble. She has also performed with Ensemble Adapter, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and S.L.Á.T.U.R.. Skúli Sverrisson (born 23 October 1966) is an Icelandic composer and bass guitarist. He has worked with musicians Wadada Leo Smith, Derek Bailey, Lou Reed, Jon Hassel, David Sylvian, Arto Lindsay, and composers Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jóhann Jóhannsson, and Hildur Guðnadóttir.

REVIEW:

While each of the 19 ‘movements’ seem sufficiently distinct from each other their individual arcs seem to follow a course of gradual bending and fragmentation. By that I mean that if each of the movements seems to begin and end in the same place, the excursion one experiences en route is abundant in microscopic timbral variety and largely imperceptible flux.

There can be little doubt that Bára Gísladóttir and Skúli Sverrisson are outstanding musicians in every sense; if their virtuosity as players per se takes ones breath away that’s not even the half of it. What is effectively a 130 minute dual improvisation involving a double bass and an electric bass is, in the end, an experience of profundity, wonder, and indescribable beauty. Caeli is all-encompassing and astonishing in a literal sense; at once it can be monolithic and elastic, dark and luminous, purposeful and daydreaming, bold and terrified, triumphant and sad. It’s all on these discs.

– MusicWeb International

Tracklist 19 tracks

  1. Disc 1
  2. 1 unum caelum 05:20
    Track
    1
    Title
    unum caelum
    Duration
    05:20
    Composer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
    Performer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
  3. 2 cieli pesanti 13:40
    Track
    2
    Title
    cieli pesanti
    Duration
    13:40
    Composer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
    Performer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
  4. 3 caelum apertum 09:57
    Track
    3
    Title
    caelum apertum
    Duration
    09:57
    Composer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
    Performer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
  5. 4 SVEIFLA 07:12
    Track
    4
    Title
    SVEIFLA
    Duration
    07:12
    Composer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
    Performer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
  6. 5 caeli movendi sunt et terra 18:31
    Track
    5
    Title
    caeli movendi sunt et terra
    Duration
    18:31
    Composer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
    Performer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
  7. 6 anche il mare è un cielo 03:26
    Track
    6
    Title
    anche il mare è un cielo
    Duration
    03:26
    Composer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
    Performer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
  8. 7 I believe so 01:59
    Track
    7
    Title
    I believe so
    Duration
    01:59
    Composer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
    Performer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
  9. 8 SEIGLA 09:39
    Track
    8
    Title
    SEIGLA
    Duration
    09:39
    Composer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
    Performer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
  10. Disc 2
  11. 1 anche la terra è un cielo 10:10
    Track
    1
    Title
    anche la terra è un cielo
    Duration
    10:10
    Composer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
    Performer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
  12. 2 soaring skies 05:44
    Track
    2
    Title
    soaring skies
    Duration
    05:44
    Composer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
    Performer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
  13. 3 all heavens 10:27
    Track
    3
    Title
    all heavens
    Duration
    10:27
    Composer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
    Performer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
  14. 4 stretching skies 06:29
    Track
    4
    Title
    stretching skies
    Duration
    06:29
    Composer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
    Performer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
  15. 5 anche l'inferno è un cielo 10:38
    Track
    5
    Title
    anche l'inferno è un cielo
    Duration
    10:38
    Composer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
    Performer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
  16. 6 harmonic interlude 02:51
    Track
    6
    Title
    harmonic interlude
    Duration
    02:51
    Composer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
    Performer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
  17. 7 the heavens have no mercy 02:22
    Track
    7
    Title
    the heavens have no mercy
    Duration
    02:22
    Composer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
    Performer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
  18. 8 gul viðvörun 01:53
    Track
    8
    Title
    gul viðvörun
    Duration
    01:53
    Composer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
    Performer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
  19. 9 FORCE 02:12
    Track
    9
    Title
    FORCE
    Duration
    02:12
    Composer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
    Performer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
  20. 10 some sort of closure 04:03
    Track
    10
    Title
    some sort of closure
    Duration
    04:03
    Composer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
    Performer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
  21. 11 afterlife 02:59
    Track
    11
    Title
    afterlife
    Duration
    02:59
    Composer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson
    Performer
    Bára Gísladóttir, Skúli Sverrisson