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Jane Ira Bloom

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We recently released the lates album from renowned jazz soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom entitled Picturing The Invisible: Focus 1

I spoke with Jane as well as Ulrike Schwarz and Jim Anderson, the recording and mastering engineers responsible for the impressive album, about its’ creation, triumphs and challenges. Go straight to the article or scroll down to get a sneak peek.

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Recording Report

“Picturing The Invisible: Focus 1”

What do you get when you mix virtuosic musicianship, top-level audio engineering, and the task to record an album remotely via the internet? Answer: you get one amazing album story.

“…you know if I were to use one term to describe everything about the whole journey, it’s about the power of improvisational thinking. We had to make things up as we went because life gave us a few curve balls, and funny enough the substance of what I do as a Jazz improviser is, basically, I make things up! Luckily for me, I had the pleasure of working with professional audio engineers and producers who also have this skill of improvisation. So that’s where our story really began with this album. I had a bunch of compositions that I wanted to record but couldn’t go in to a studio for safety reasons [as this was the middle of the Corona period] so I had to think, ‘Well, can I record this album remotely?’ Then I realised that the best sonic possibilities when recording remotely were as duets. So Ulrike, Jim and I spoke at length about how we would do this. We realised it has never really been done before, attempting to record an album of improvisational duets in real time. So we had our challenge, Ulrike especially, to capture the essence and the sound of each musician so that as a listener you can’t even tell how it was done. Thus began this marriage of Art and Science which is the motivation behind this album.” - Jane Ira Bloom

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After 3 releases on the Navis Classics label, cellist Joachim Eijlander returns to NativeDSD Music with Dark Fire, his first album on TRPTK. Dark Fire is said to be "an encounter with the realms of other people’s experience, principally those of musicians. When two energies meet for the first time and are fully open to the experience, a new mirror image of themselves they have never seen before will arise."

Eijlander says "Philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) described the encounter between the organized philosophical world of the ancient Greek and the mystical, abstruse world of the East as a dark fire. This would have caused the enlightenment in Greek poetry. It’s unclear what Heidegger really thought about it, but I found the mental image of a dark fire lit by this chance meeting beautiful and highly inspiring. For Heidegger, this was mainly about the East and West. To me it’s about an encounter with the realms of other people’s experience, principally those of musicians. When two energies meet for the first time and are fully open to the experience, a new mirror image of themselves they have never seen before will arise."

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