Peuker8 - Radiance (2019) Hi Res
Artist: Peuker8
Title: Radiance
Year Of Release: 2019
Label: WhyPlayJazz
Genre: Jazz
Quality: 24Bit/44 kHz FLAC
Total Time: 00:53:33
Total Size: 583 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Radiance
Year Of Release: 2019
Label: WhyPlayJazz
Genre: Jazz
Quality: 24Bit/44 kHz FLAC
Total Time: 00:53:33
Total Size: 583 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
01. Radiance I
02. Radiance II
03. Rage Against the Plastic Waste
04. Framework I
05. The Core
06. A Sorrowful Song
07. Framework II
08. Onto the Wild Bright Future
09. Requiem (Radiance III)
10. Is This the End?
11. Sage (Against the Plastic Taste)
Peuker8 is an entertaining fusion of styles, something special that ranges far beyond the modern-jazz context. With its fluid, far reaching and sharply focused play, It’s the perfect festival band. This is Paul Peuker’s third album with Peuker8, and with his captivating arrangements for voice and instruments, Peuker has cohesively developed and perfected his urgent and spirited art. "Radiance" is a concept album. Leitmotifs continually recur, and you could use such synonyms as "splendor" and "presence" to come even closer to the heart of this music. It is permeated by an inner luminescence, by an effortless spontaneity in which equally weighted voicings interlock, float upwards and shine. Peuker's art does not rely on the quick effect, nor does it pander to the public. His art braces itself against the reduction and simplification of clicks and zaps in order to create a way of thinking in larger arcs and progressions – something resonant, something profound. If you so desire, you can find traces of the music of Scandinavian Trygve Seim’s large formations, references to Henryk Górecki's Symphony No. 3, or Gustav Mahler's cinematic orchestral works, including his Symphony No. 2, which uses texts from the collection of old German folk poems, "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" (The Boy’s Magic Horn). Peuker adopts modified versions of these texts in two compositions, as he provocatively brings in the baritone voice of Konstantin Ingenpaß, addressing some of the urgent topics of our time: "dying, the world senses our rushing to and fro / yet it will be the one that remains" ...