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ELIAS STEMESEDER, THOMAS MORGAN — Io Pur Respiro LP
- Label:
- Squama ·
- Catalog:
- SQM037 ·
- Format:
- 12inch Vinyl ·
- Release Date:
- ·
- Features:
- 180G ·
30.90 €
Tracklist
Madrigal, Variation, Courante 00:09:59(Original Mix)
Elias Stemeseder, Thomas Morgan
Love Came 00:08:42(Original Mix)
Elias Stemeseder, Thomas Morgan
On The Euclidian Plane 00:07:17(Original Mix)
Elias Stemeseder, Thomas Morgan
I Have The Room Above Her 00:07:20(Original Mix)
Elias Stemeseder, Thomas Morgan
Subject Carved From Words Uttered 00:10:00(Original Mix)
Elias Stemeseder, Thomas Morgan
About Release
Pianist Elias Stemeseder and bass player Thomas Morgan debut on Squama with 'Io Pur Respiro'. Recorded live at Sala Vanni in Florence, the album shows a duo at the height of their craft with an unmistakable instinct for melody and balance.
Io Pur Respiro ("Yet I breathe") is the title of an early 17th century madrigal by Italian renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo that's also the harmonic basis for the album's opening track Madrigal, Variation, Courante. With two standards from the 1930s (Love Came / I Have The Room Above Her) and two original compositions by Stemeseder there's 400 years of melodic evolution enshrined in this record. Yet, the music sounds neither new, nor old giving the album a profound sense of timelessness that's owed to the eternal force of melody and harmony.
