Postcards of Nostalgia, by Matt Choboter

Postcards of Nostalgia

by Matt Choboter

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1.	The Dreamer That Remains 04:37	buy track
2.	Font-de-Gaumes 05:07	buy track
3.	Eleusinian Mysteryy 02:36	buy track
4.	Castalian Spring 04:05	buy track
5.	Temptations Toward Sorcery 03:02	buy track
6.	Pneuma 03:12	buy track
7.	Descent to Deep Valley Water 03:08	buy track
8.	The Circular Ruins 03:24	buy track
9.	Weaving Ropes of Sand 04:33	buy track
10.	Omphalos 05:30	buy track

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”Postcards of Nostalgia” sonically re-imagines the solo acoustic piano. It playfully explores the “sounds between the notes”.

Inspired by LaMonte Young and John Cage and sounding like Eve Risser and Benoît Delbecq, Choboter uses a newly invented tuning system, magnetic preparations and ethereal electronics to evoke subliminal landscapes between post-jazz, ambient electronic and Balinese Gamelan music.

The album invites one to reflect into the deep past whether on a personal or collective scale.

On a personal level, the music reflects on Choboter’s travels to places like Chennai, (studying oral traditions of South Indian Classical Music) Delphi, (explorations into myths of ancient Greece) and the Dordogne Valley (delving into palaeolithic cave art of southern France). These impressions have been traversed in wakeful experiences, dreaming, literature and the liminal psychological planes in between. Stored as memories, they manifest as postcards of nostalgia, that Choboter carries always.

On a collective scale, “Postcards of Nostalgia” might describe the awe- inspiring Upper Palaeolithic cave art. Poet Clayton Eshleman uses the phrase to refer to some kind of eternal longing for something that we know we have lost. A loss of some aspects of an animal nature. The irreversible gain of consciousness, or reflection upon ourselves, and a com- pensatory need for imaginative creativity. An expression toward a need for reconnection, creativity must have helped us survive. It must continue to help us survive. But creativity requires evolution and renewal.

credits

released June 23, 2023

All compositions by Matt Choboter except Temptation Towards Sorcery and Omphalos (Matt Choboter & Simon Mariegaard).
Recorded at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory (Copenhagen) in December 2020. Re-amped in St. Augustines Church in Copenhagen.
Recorded by Simon Mariegaard Mixed/mastered by Simon Mariegaard
Produced by Matt Choboter, Simon Mariegaard
Photo credits: Raphael Gimenes

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ILK is an artist-run label and collective of 25 musicians based in Copenhagen, releasing new music hybrids, avant-, improv- and jazz related sounds by artists acknowledged as innovators on an international scale. The ILK catalogue also highlights a wide range of international collaborations with master musicians such as Paul Bley, Henry Grimes, John Tchicai, Andrew Cyrille and many more. ... more

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