Label: Astral Muse Production Catalog#: AM 82053 Format: Cassette, Album Country: Canada Released: 1984 DISCOGSOFFICIAL
A1 Japanese Island 2:25 A2 Open Like A Flute 2:10 A3 Puja 2:45 A4 Boreale 4:15 A5 Arrival 6:20 A6 Slalom 2:10 A7 First Light 5:50 B1 Sazz Flute 13:20 B2 Aman 16:00
1975年のミニマル/ラーガ「Le Temps des Moissons」、Richard Tinti（リチャード・タンティ）と共同制作された1978年のボルネオ・サウンドスケープ「Osmose」など、世界各地で出会った自然や文化、人々のスピリットを編み込んだ異境の音響作品を発表しているパリ出身のマルチ奏者Ariel Kalma（アリエル・カルマ）。「Open Like A Flute」は、カナダのレーベルAstral Muse Productionからリリースされたカセットのひとつ。日本的な旋律をもつフルート独奏、オルガンとシンセの持続音、口琴＋コスミックなミニマル電子音へと連なるA面から、サントゥールやハーモニウムが瞑想世界の深部へと誘うB面へ。波紋のように広がる超民族/超時空的アンビエンスの中を、ヘビ使いから教えを受けたという循環呼吸を効果的に用いたブレスの長いフルート/サックスが舞い遊ぶ、フリーフォームなニューエイジ作品。
bio. Born and raised in Paris, France, Ariel started playing the recorder at age 9 and saxophone at 15. During his successive studies of Electronics, Computer Science, Music and Art in Paris, Ariel performed with several bands, then toured the world and visited Europe, Japan, India, Eastern Canada, and parts of the USA. Apart from rhythm & blues, pop and jazz, he acquired assorted experiences in middle-age French, electro-acoustic, and modal music. All the travels broadened Ariel's musical horizons tremendously; listening to and playing with different styles, people, and instruments, intricate scales, techniques, timing and rhythms. Ariel Kalma playing guitarAfter learning circular breathing from a snake charmer in India, Ariel practiced it on soprano sax - for many sleepless nights - in the basement of a cathedral in New York (when he was not playing upstairs on the large harmonium). Returning to France in late '76, Ariel could include those endless notes into his own long-delay-effect system with which he toured, playing solo concerts. Ariel contributed to the birth of (then) new music genres: minimalist, space, ambient, new age, electronic etc. With his passion for recording and sound, Ariel always had a home studio and was also technical assistant to some of the composers at Paris' GRM - Musical Research Group part of the INA (Audiovisual National Institute), where he recorded some of his compositions. Over 3 decades, Ariel Kalma published several vinyl LP's, cassettes, and CD's, many older ones out of print. His compositions have been used for modern dance-theatre, films, musical poetry, guided meditations, transformational groups. Ariel Kalma has also played on many albums in France - even throughout Europe, the US and recently Australia, where he lives. - ariel-kalma.com
Label: Centrediscs Catalog#: CMCCD 14109 Format: CD, Album Country: Canada Released: 2009 DISCOGSOFFICIAL
1 Spatial View Of Pond 1 11:58 2 Noisy River 3:41 3 Soundstill IV 4:45 4 Soundstill VI 3:50 5 Soundstill VII 3:29 6 Soundstill VIII 3:18 7 Soundstill IX 2:58 8 Soundstill X 3:28 9 Commotion Creek 5:15 10 Soundstill V 5:07 1 Fidget Creek 4:55 2 Soundstill I 6:22 3 Soundstill II 6:26 4 Soundstill III 6:42 5 Fiddle Creek 5:08 6 Spatial View Of Pond 2 11:46 7 Pond Life I 3:23 8 Pond Life II 3:28 9 Pond Life III 1:23 10 Pond Life IV 3:17
Piano – Christina Petrowska Quilico Recorded at Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto, October 17, 2008.
bio. ANN SOUTHAM was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1937 but lived most of her life in Toronto. After completing musical studies at the University of Toronto and the Royal Conservatory of Music in the early 1960's, Ann Southam began a teaching and composing career which included a long and productive association with modern dance. As well as creating music for some of Canada's major modern dance companies and choreographers including The Toronto Dance Theatre, Danny Grossman, Dancemakers, Patricia Beatty, Christopher House and Rachel Browne, she was an instructor in electronic music at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and has also participated in many "composer-in-the-classroom" programs in elementary and high schools. While a great deal of her work was electroacoustic music on tape, in her later years she became increasingly interested in music for acoustic instruments. She composed concert music for a variety of acoustic instruments and instrumental ensembles, working with such artists and ensembles as Eve Egoyan, Christina Petrowska Quilico and Arraymusic. Ann Southam's work was commissioned through the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the CBC, and has been performed in Canada, Europe and the U.S. She is a member of the Canadian Music Centre, the Canadian League of Composers and a founding member of the Association of Canadian Women Composers. She was the recipient of the Friends of Canadian Music Award in 2001. Ann Southam passed away November 25, 2010. - Canadian Music Centre
