Time to Die (Christine Ott album)

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Time to Die
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Studio album by
Released9 April 2021
Genre Classical crossover, experimental, art music, contemporary classical music
Label Gizeh Records
Christine Ott chronology
Chimères (pour Ondes Martenot)
(2020)
Time to Die
(2021)

Time to Die is the fourth solo album by Christine Ott, and is described as the sequel to her second album Only Silence Remains released in 2016. [1] The album is opening by a reference to Ridley Scott's Blade Runner; the title track pivots around that Rutger Hauer monologue, [2] here narrated by Casey Brown on a particular combination of Ondes Martenot, synthesizers, timpani and tubular bells. The album is then developing very different orchestrations on the subject of death and rebirth. [3] [4] For the musician and director Fredo Viola  ; "The way I see the album is as a series of quite cinematic meditations on the theme of death and dying, changing prismatically, up to that incredibly delicate and beautiful conclusion.." [5]

Track listing

  1. "Time to Die" – 8:21
  2. "Brumes" – 6:45
  3. "Landscape" – 3:36
  4. "Chasing Harp" – 4:02
  5. "Horizons Fauves" – 7:00
  6. "Comma Opening" – 6:58
  7. "Miroirs" – 3:21
  8. "Pluie" – 5:24

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References

  1. "Album presentation". Christine Ott Bandcamp.
  2. Rutherford, Gordon (9 April 2021). "From portentous darkness to fragile, shimmering beauty. Eight astonishing compositions that push the boundaries of modern music". Louder Than War.
  3. "Mark Corcoran-Lettice discovers eloquent arrangements and spontaneous-sounding melodies on the composer and multi-instrumentalist's new album". NARC Magazine. 9 April 2021.
  4. Ott, Christine (8 April 2021). "Rather than an evocation of death as we could imagine, the album "Time To Die" is to me more a reflection and a questioning about humanity, and a story of humility in front of the mysteries of death and its thousand facets". Son Of Marketing.
  5. "Gizeh Records presentation". Bandcamp.