Black Pencil / Schokland (2023)

Dreyer-Gaido - CD 21148

 

Ensemble Black Pencil

Jorge Isaac: blockflute

Matthijs Koene: panpipes

Esra Pehlivanli: viola

Marko Kassl: accordion

Enric Monfort: percussion

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1) Ulrich Schultheiss: Drops in the wind

2) Ulrich Schultheiss: Birdsong

3) Ulrich Schultheiss: Windspel

4) Piyawat Louilarpprasert: Nostalgic Scapes

5) Aart Strootman: Popular Archeology: Volca #1

6) Rens Tienstra: Schokland Prayer

7) Ng Yu Hng: Met en Tegen de Zuiderzee

8) Otto Wanke: Scattered views

9) Luca Donati: Ipseity

10) Alina Silina: Memories of Wood

11) Enric Monfort: Jathilan

12) Soumil Biswas: Schokland

13) Claudio Huerta Honores: The Island without sea

14) Florence Anna Maunders: Fraom Under

15) Andrea Guterres: In limbo

16) Lucas Veeger: Geen weg terug

17) Andrzej Ojczenasz: Vespers

18) John Cage: Child of Tree

19) Irene Tanuwidjaja: Tegen de zee

20) Yushun Pei: Breathing

21) Jonatan de Jesús Carrasco Hernández: The gangway

22) Sarah Jeffery: After me comes the flood

23) Florian Magnus Maier: Stormproofing

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In 2022, the ensemble Black Pencil began a multi-year collaboration with the UNESCO World Heritage site of Schokland. Schokland offers a unique combination of cultural history and nature, located in the heart of the Noordoostpolder in the Netherlands. The site bears evidence of human habitation dating back more than 10,000 years.

Black Pencil launched an international call for compositions, inviting new one-minute works written for one of the ensemble’s five soloists. The miniatures were to be inspired by Schokland.

The call was a great success, receiving 174 compositions from 36 countries. The album Schokland features 22 of these compelling pieces, along with John Cage’s Child of Tree from 1975.