Claws and Wings

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Claws and Wings
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Studio album by Erik Friedlander
Released October 1, 2013
Recorded 2013
Studio 2nd Story Sound, NYC
Genre Avant-garde, Jazz, Americana, Contemporary classical music
Length44:50
Label Skipstone
SSR016
Producer Erik Friedlander
Erik Friedlander chronology
American Power
(2012)		Claws and Wings
(2013)		 Nothing On Earth
(2013)

Claws and Wings is an album by cellist Erik Friedlander which was released in 2013 on the Skipstone label. [1] The album was composed by Friedlander in tribute to his late wife and while recovering from an injury which left him unable to play cello.

Erik Friedlander American musician

Erik Friedlander is an American cellist and composer based in New York City.

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Reception

In JazzTimes Lloyd Sachs wrote " a soulful inner strength resonates through this delicately textured, lyrically assertive work, which teams Friedlander with a pair of familiar collaborators in pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and electronics artist Ikue Mori. Claws and Wings is both a loving portrait of Lynn Shapiro, a choreographer and poet who sometimes collaborated with her husband, and a moody portrait of memory, with its fleeting images, quick transitions from joy to sorrow and odd connections". [2] Writing for All About Jazz, Troy Collins observed "For this unusual set, Friedlander is joined by two of the Downtown scene's most remarkable female improvisers—pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and electronic percussionist Ikue Mori. Courvoisier's adroit virtuosity provides the perfect accompaniment to Friedlander's sinuous lyricism, her neo-classical technique finding sympathetic accord in the leader's straightforward approach. Mori, on the other hand, is the date's wildcard, conjuring a kaleidoscopic array of beguiling textures from her laptop that imbue the proceedings with a surreal, cinematic air". [3]

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Track listing

All compositions by Erik Friedlander.

  1. "Frail As a Breeze Part I" - 6:31
  2. "Frail As a Breeze Part II" - 9:03
  3. "Dreams of Your Leaving" - 2:42
  4. "Dancer" - 4:47
  5. "Reaching Back" - 2:48
  6. "Swim With Me" - 8:37
  7. "Insomnia" - 5:17
  8. "Cheek to Cheek" - 5:05

Personnel

Cello musical instrument

The cello ( CHEL-oh; plural cellos or celli) or violoncello ( VY-ə-lən-CHEL-oh; Italian pronunciation: [vjolonˈtʃɛllo]) is a string instrument. It is played by bowing or plucking its four strings, which are usually tuned in perfect fifths an octave lower than the viola: from low to high, C2, G2, D3 and A3. It is the bass member of the violin family, which also includes the violin, viola and the double bass, which doubles the bass line an octave lower than the cello in much of the orchestral repertoire. After the double bass, it is the second-largest and second lowest (in pitch) bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. The cello is used as a solo instrument, as well as in chamber music ensembles (e.g., string quartet), string orchestras, as a member of the string section of symphony orchestras, most modern Chinese orchestras, and some types of rock bands.

Sylvie Courvoisier Swiss musician

Sylvie Courvoisier is a composer, pianist and improviser.

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

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References

  1. ↑ Eric Friedlander discography accessed April 27, 2016
  2. ↑ Sachs, L. JazzTimes Review, January/February 2014
  3. ↑ Collins, T. All About Jazz Review, October 8, 2014.
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