Black Pencil / Into Space (2023)

Dreyer-Gaido - CD 21150

 

Ensemble Black Pencil

Jorge Isaac: blockflute

Matthijs Koene: panpipes

Esra Pehlivanli: viola

Marko Kassl: accordion

Enric Monfort: percussion

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1) Calliope Tsoupaki: Into Space (2022)

2) Arnoud Noordegraaf: Almere 100 (2022)

3) Aart Strootman: Popular Archeology-Volca #1 (2022)

4) Yannis Kyriakides: Ovservatory (2022)

5) Aart Strootman: Sea Level (2022)

6) Jonata de Jesús Carrasco Hernández: The Gangway (2022)

7) Florence Anna Maunders: Muurhagedis (2022)

8) Meric Artac: Earth Sea (2022)

9) Florian Magnus Maier: Stormproofing (2022)

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This album by the ensemble Black Pencil features compositions centered around landscapes and landscape artworks. Four Land Art monuments in Flevoland inspired four composers to create new works for Black Pencil:

Calliope Tsoupaki composed a piece for Marinus Boezem’s Green Cathedral, Aart Strootman wrote for Richard Serra’s Sea Level, Yannis Kyriakides for Robert Morris’s Observatory, and finally Meric Artac for Piet Slegers’s Earth Sea(Aardzee).

Additionally, the album includes works inspired by the city of Almere and the former island of Schokland.