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Art: Front
(0:48) 1. Vesi (Interlude)
(4:59) 2. Water
(5:30) 3. Duna
(4:28) 4. Wildfires
(4:21) 5. Salty River
(0:38) 6. The Tear (Interlude)
(5:24) 7. Lament of the King's Wife
(0:59) 8. Maji (Interlude)
(3:10) 9. The Sailor
(1:13) 10. Die Flut (Interlude)
(4:15) 11. Don't We Know Better
(3:54) 12. The Red Sea
(2:03) 13. Rain Dance (Interlude)
(5:04) 14. The Ocean's Song
(4:47) 15. Time's a River
(2:25) 16. Salty River - Epilog
The vocal artist and jazz vocalist Esther Kaiser has taken on a theme for her new album that as with the widely praised previous album “Songs of Courage” addresses an important aspect of our time, which is constantly in flux, in which nothing is more constant than the liquid, than the evaporation and liquefaction of everything solid and traditional: Water.
Esther Kaiser therefore takes the ancient and, from today’s perspective, of course not to be taken literally, quote from Thales of Miletus as a poetic-metaphorical image for her album: Water is the origin of all things. It´s the substance from which everything emerges and to which all things will return.
Thus, even the musically and lyrically multifaceted theme of the album repeatedly finds its way back to pure clarity and lightness, despite the shimmering socio-political and climate-related dimension that Kaiser does not disregard in her cleverly nuanced approach.
On this album, Kaiser transports listeners to a sound that is at once contemporary and urban, as well as to enraptured, almost fairy-like worlds of sound, thanks to the use of unusual sound sources such as the water-powered glass harp and extremely exciting musical guests such as Marie-Christine Gitman on oboe and English horn, the Berlin string quartet “Die Nixen” and the renowned trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist Sebastian Studnitzky.
The genesis of the album fits perfectly with the ancestral symbolism of water, which in many cultures is considered a threshold between (dream) worlds. “In the first Corona lockdown and during a prolonged period of drought in the spring of 2020, during which I had also read the book „The end of the ocean” by Norwegian author Maja Lunde, the song “Water” was created practically in my sleep,” says Esther Kaiser about her first initial inspiration for the new album, which could be described as no dream log. And adds: “I dreamed the melody and the complete lyrics of the chorus and wrote the idea down immediately after waking up. Very quickly, almost as if following a dream dictation, I then finished writing the piece. It was quickly joined by other compositions and lyrics, almost all of which were penned by me and my long-time musical companions Tino Derado and Marc Muellbauer. They’re not all explicitly about water, but on a more abstract level there are images, associations and analogies that connect the songs to the common theme"......More... https://www.glm.de/en/product/esther-kaiser-water/
Personnel: Esther Kaiser – voc/ synth/ glasharp/ glockenspiel; Tino Derado – piano/ accordion; Marc Muellbauer – doublebass; Roland Schneider – drums
Featured Guests: Marie Gitman – oboe/ englishhorn; Sebastian Studnitzky – trumpet; Die Nixen* – string quartet( * Rahel Rilling-violin1, Katharina Wildhagen-violin2, Kristina Menzel-Labitzke-viola, Nicola Springler-cello)
Esther Kaiser therefore takes the ancient and, from today’s perspective, of course not to be taken literally, quote from Thales of Miletus as a poetic-metaphorical image for her album: Water is the origin of all things. It´s the substance from which everything emerges and to which all things will return.
Thus, even the musically and lyrically multifaceted theme of the album repeatedly finds its way back to pure clarity and lightness, despite the shimmering socio-political and climate-related dimension that Kaiser does not disregard in her cleverly nuanced approach.
On this album, Kaiser transports listeners to a sound that is at once contemporary and urban, as well as to enraptured, almost fairy-like worlds of sound, thanks to the use of unusual sound sources such as the water-powered glass harp and extremely exciting musical guests such as Marie-Christine Gitman on oboe and English horn, the Berlin string quartet “Die Nixen” and the renowned trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist Sebastian Studnitzky.
The genesis of the album fits perfectly with the ancestral symbolism of water, which in many cultures is considered a threshold between (dream) worlds. “In the first Corona lockdown and during a prolonged period of drought in the spring of 2020, during which I had also read the book „The end of the ocean” by Norwegian author Maja Lunde, the song “Water” was created practically in my sleep,” says Esther Kaiser about her first initial inspiration for the new album, which could be described as no dream log. And adds: “I dreamed the melody and the complete lyrics of the chorus and wrote the idea down immediately after waking up. Very quickly, almost as if following a dream dictation, I then finished writing the piece. It was quickly joined by other compositions and lyrics, almost all of which were penned by me and my long-time musical companions Tino Derado and Marc Muellbauer. They’re not all explicitly about water, but on a more abstract level there are images, associations and analogies that connect the songs to the common theme"......More... https://www.glm.de/en/product/esther-kaiser-water/
Personnel: Esther Kaiser – voc/ synth/ glasharp/ glockenspiel; Tino Derado – piano/ accordion; Marc Muellbauer – doublebass; Roland Schneider – drums
Featured Guests: Marie Gitman – oboe/ englishhorn; Sebastian Studnitzky – trumpet; Die Nixen* – string quartet( * Rahel Rilling-violin1, Katharina Wildhagen-violin2, Kristina Menzel-Labitzke-viola, Nicola Springler-cello)
Water
