• 5 digipack box set

Amsterdam based Slovenian pianist and composer Miha Gantar has a very personal and very wide music vision, and the simultaneous release of several of its aspects seems logic, from the point of view of the artist but also of the listener, who is capable, this way, to achieve a complete experience of that sound world of a new, fresh, surprising and much welcomed player in the international creative music game.

Each configuration (solo: “Origins of the Pure”; duo: “Songs and Serenades”; trio: “A Portrait of the Imaginary”; quartet: “Polymorphic Realities”; large ensemble: “Alternate History of the Future”) unrevels different approaches that are much more than the respective instrumentations, all of them «human and intimate» aspects of a defined aesthetic, as Nate Wooley points out in his liner notes. You can recognize the names of some participants, like Gerry Hemingway, Christian Lillinger and Axel Dorner in the quartet disc, but don’t listen to Gantar’s music starting on the basis of what you think you can recognize.

The inverse audition would be more gratifying, for instance his association in duo with singer Marta Arpini, a work of pure affection, very emotional, in which melancholy and vivacity are expressions of the human spirit facing difficult circumstances. Five gems to discover.

PERSONNEL, TRACKS & DATES:

• CD ONE: MIHA GANTAR SOLO | ORIGINS OF THE PURE

• Miha Gantar - (piano)

• 01. To Be Is to Generate

• Recorded at BIMHUIS Amsterdam between July 27th and 31st 2020
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• CD TWO: MIHA GANTAR DUO| SONGS AND SERENADES. Feat. Marta Arpini

• Marta Arpini - (voice)
• Miha Gantar - (piano)

• 01. Prelude
• 02. Where Do I Go
• 03. I Carry Your Heart
• 04. Since Feeling Is First
• 05. Serenade For A Captive Spirit
• 06. As Long As You're Here
• 07. I'm Nobody! Who Are You?
• 08. The Things Left Unsaid
• 09. Am I The One?
• 10. A Song For The Quiet Ones
• 11. For Only A Moment
• 12. Memento
• 13. Bye Bye Blackbird

• Recorded at POWER SOUND studio, Amsterdam, on October 22nd and 29th 2020
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• CD THREE: MIHA GANTAR TRIO | A PORTRAIT OF THE IMAGINARY

• Tijs Klaassen - (double bass)
• Tristan Renfrow - (drums)
• Miha Gantar - (piano)

• 01. A Portrait Of The Imaginary

• Recorded at BIMHUIS, Amsterdam on April 5th, 6th, and 12th 2021
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• CD FOUR: MIHA GANTAR QUARTET| POLYMORPHIC REALITIES

• Gerry Hemingway - (drums, percussion, harmonica, kazoo)
• Christian Lillinger - (drums)
• Axel Dörner - (trumpet, electronics)
• Miha Gantar - (piano)

• 01. Point Of Departure
• 02. Point Of Divergence
• 03. Point Of No Return
• 04. Paradigm Shift
• 05. The Governing Bodies Of Resonance
• 06. Point Of Inflection
• 07. Polymorphic Realities
• 08. Unmasked, Unbound, Uncharted

• Recorded at POWER SOUND studio, Amsterdam, September 13th and 14th 2021
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• CD FIVE: MIHA GANTAR LARGE ENSEMBLE | ALTERNATE HISTORY OF THE FUTURE

• 01. Dream Sequence No. 5 - Alternate History Of The Future

• Maripepa - (Contreras oboe)
• Ben van Gelder - (alto saxophone)
• Mafalda Oliveira - (alto saxophone)
• Gideon Tazelaar - (tenor saxophone)
• Joris Roelofs - (bass clarinet)
• Eric Rojas - (bass clarinet)
• Marta Vilaça - (flute)
• Peter Mullen - (french horn)
• Bruno Calvo Anillo - (trumpet)
• Alessandro Fongaro - (double bass)
• Tijs Klaassen - (double bass)
• Tristan Renfrow - (drums and percussion)
• Willem Romers - (drums and percussion)
• Miha Gantar - (piano)
• Recorded at POWER SOUND, Amsterdam, Studio between December 2020 and June 2021