Elliott Sharp - Port Bou (2016)
Elliott Sharp - Port Bou
Avant-Garde, Jazz, Classical | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 48:44 min | 112 MB
Label: Infrequent Seams Records | Tracks: 08 | Rls.date: 2016
Avant-Garde, Jazz, Classical | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 48:44 min | 112 MB
Label: Infrequent Seams Records | Tracks: 08 | Rls.date: 2016
The opera PORT BOU by Elliott Sharp presents the last moments in the life of philosopher Walter Benjamin at Port-Bou in 1940 as he was fleeing Nazi-occupied France. PORT BOU features the astounding bass-baritone Nicholas Isherwood with virtuoso Jenny Lin on piano and William Schimmel on accordion as well as electro-acoustic backing tracks by Sharp. In his spoken introduction to the Berlin performance of PORT BOU, Volker Schlörndorf, director of The Tin Drum stated: "Anybody's agony, the night before closing the door on the world, is hard to transcribe in musical notes, I thought, even more so a philosopher's Angst. Yet, it can be done, and his voice, this particular voice, roaming a hotel room in exile, is proof of it. A metaphysical achievement."
TRACKLIST
1. Port Bou - Overture 06:15
2. A Room 08:28
3. Sh 02:39
4. Words 04:23
5. Ajsa 03:09
6. Creation 05:52
7. Reproduction 10:31
8. Translation 07:28