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log date: 2023-07-17 20:57:02
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Analyzed: Pascal Schumacher / SOL
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR10 -3.82 dB -20.32 dB 1:17 01-Amarcord
DR7 -0.70 dB -12.30 dB 4:37 02-Tropismes
DR11 -1.95 dB -17.16 dB 3:39 03-Melancolia
DR10 -2.29 dB -16.15 dB 4:50 04-Sol
DR10 -0.72 dB -14.74 dB 4:05 05-Falling Falling
DR9 -3.44 dB -19.35 dB 1:22 06-Twinkle
DR9 -3.14 dB -14.41 dB 2:17 07-Air
DR9 -0.74 dB -12.27 dB 2:52 08-Tubular Bells
DR11 -0.73 dB -16.83 dB 4:17 09-Tearjerker
DR7 -0.69 dB -12.14 dB 5:53 10-Lift
DR7 -6.51 dB -17.41 dB 1:45 11-Sous-Conversations
DR10 -0.70 dB -15.73 dB 4:33 12-Einklang
DR7 -0.60 dB -13.51 dB 3:04 13-Strange
DR10 -3.83 dB -19.41 dB 0:59 14-Amarcord Fine
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Number of tracks: 14
Official DR value: DR9
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 1330 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Об исполнителях (рус.) | About Artist (ru)
Паскаль ШумахерВибрафонист и композитор Паскаль Шумахер сделал себе имя благодаря большому количеству коллабораций. Выпускник консерваторских училищ Люксембурга и Страсбурга, джазовых отделений Королевских консерваторий Брюсселя и Гааги выступал в составе многих европейских джазовых коллективов, камерных и симфонических ансамблей, играл в дуэте с бельгийским пианистом Джефом Неве (Jef Neve). Кроме того, он выступал с Франческо Тристано и Бачаром Мар-Халифе (на альбоме Afrodiziak) и участвовал в альбоме мюнхенского композитора Араша Сафаяна ÜberBach. Заинтересовавшись электронной музыкой, он распустил свою группу Pascal Schumacher Quartet. От квартета до оркестра, от джазовой до камерной академической музыки, Паскаль выстроил уникальную связь со своим любимым инструментом и добился мирового признания как универсальный и всеядный музыкант. https://www.last.fm/ru/music/Pascal+Schumacher/+wiki
Об исполнителях (англ.) | About Artist (en)
Pascal SchumacherPascal Schumacher (born 12 March 1979 in Luxemburg) is a Luxembourgish jazz musician, composer and percussionist who has founded a number of groups including the Pascal Schumacher Quartet. He also plays and composes classical chamber music.
Pascal Schumacher studied classical percussion at the Luxembourg Conservatory. He continued his studies at the Strasbourg Conservatory and at the jazz department of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. He obtained master's degrees in jazz-vibraphone at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Frits Landesbergen and in musicology at the Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg. Among those who assisted him in his studies were Gary Burton, David Friedman, Stefon Harris and Charles Loos.
Pascal Schumacher at Tonspuren Irsee 2014, Germany. Schumacher cofounded the "Interchange" ensemble with saxophonist Nadine Kauffmann (1995) and, in 2001, the experimental percussion group "Stroke X". From 1997, he became increasingly involved in improvised music, especially jazz, playing with a number of different bands and performing with a variety of artists. In 2002, he set up his own Pascal Schumacher Quartet with Jef Neve (piano), Christophe Devisscher (bass) and Teun Verbruggen (drums). Their first album, Change Of The Moon was released in March 2004, providing the band with opportunities to travel across Europe as well as to Australia and South Africa. Their second album, Personal Legend was released in 2005 and their third, Silbergrau in 2007. In a preview of the quartet's contribution to the London Jazz Festival in November 2010, Thomas Gray characterized Schumacher (vibes) and Franz von Chossy (piano) as "resourceful improvisers, with an abundance of lucid ideas effortlessly articulated over the many shifts of metre. Meanwhile," he comments, "Christophe Devisscher (on bass) and Jens Düppe (on drums) play with a mix of muscle, precision and exquisite dynamic sensitivity."
With his quartet, Schumacher has performed at a number of jazz festivals including the North Sea Jazz Festival (Rotterdam), London Jazz Festival, Wangaratta Festival of Jazz, Copenhagen Jazz Festival and JVC Jazz Festival (Paris). They have also performed at clubs and festivals in Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, New York, Paris, Berlin, London, Munich, Liverpool Manchester, Athens, Warsaw, Melbourne, Sydney, Montreal, Toronto, Cape Town, Saigon and Mexico City.
Pascal played as soloist with Zürcher Kammerorchester, WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, la Camerata Megaron Athens, l’Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, l’Orchestre de Chambre du Luxembourg, United Instruments of Lucilin, the Kammerorchester Berlin, the Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt and the Junge Norddeutsche Philharmonie.
In 2004, Jef Neve and Pascal Schumacher set up a duo (vibraphone and piano) playing a new kind of chamber music combining the sounds of Claude Debussy, Steve Reich and Igor Stravinsky. The duo has been warmly welcomed by the Philharmonie Luxembourg for the "Rising Stars" concert series in some of the largest concert halls in Europe in association with the European Concert Hall Organisation.
Pascal Schumacher also teaches at the Luxembourg Conservatory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_Schumacher
Об альбоме (англ.) | About Album (en)
Info for 'SOL'The Italian writer, Umberto Eco once said, “Solitude is a kind of freedom.” The statement certainly strikes a chord when talking about Pascal Schumacher’s latest album, SOL. The vibraphone player and composer, who has made a name for himself in a variety of collaborative endeavours from quartets to symphonic orchestras, has recently discovered the liberation and wisdom of going solo, “I found out so much about myself alone, more than I ever would have imagined,” he says.
Schumacher’s relationship with the vibraphone began as many love stories tend to; at first sight. “I remember from my percussion classes as a kid this golden, sparkly instrument, and as soon as the teacher left the room I couldn’t help playing it,” he reminisces. For those familiar with the vibraphone, the allure will be comprehensible. The set up of shiny plates and cascading tubes, that when struck by mallets produce a sound that is at once metallic and soft, ethereal really. An allure so well captured in SOL’s first track, Amarcord, a one minute tingling and tinkling of sounds, an invitation to the rest of the album so gentle and intimate that it feels more like a seduction, “That sound - for me it was always a magical touch,” adds Schumacher.
But intimacy is not easily attained. And as with most percussion instruments, where mallets or sticks play an intermediary role between player and played, there is distance. “It’s quite a process to become one with the vibraphone. I was always jealous of cello players who have their instruments in their arms and really feel it, embrace it,” says Schumacher, “At first the relationship is a very distant one, the challenge is to become one with the vibraphone.”
For the following decades, Schumacher would venture into this challenge. His relationship with the vibraphone would evolve, shift and strengthen album to album, band to band, in festival stages from Copenhagen to Tokyo. Schumacher argued with the instrument through the agitated improvisational riffs of jazz tunes, and made peace with it in the caress of classical chamber music. And through all the commotion, there was one moment that would always beguile him, that moment of solitude, when it was just him and the vibraphone, “You can be completely creative at that moment, everything is allowed, you don't need to stick to anything that has been organized or rehearsed… These were some of my favourite moments.” The point of no return arrived when, in 2018, he was invited to play solo for the first time at a festival in Salzburg. “During those concerts, I felt more free than I had ever felt before, and I enjoyed it so much. In the audience there was something very special happening too, they were getting deeper into the music and much more absorbed by it - I had never experienced that before,” he says.
Leaving his former band wasn’t easy, Schumacher tells, but there was no alternative, “Coming home from Salzburg I was in love. It felt like cheating because I still had my former project and plans to record an album,” he says. The feeling was too strong to dismiss though, he had to go solo.
SOL captures Schumacher’s newfound passion for solitude in all its magnetism. Yet, it remains true to a relationship’s main characteristic; intimacy. The album’s track Melancolia, conveys a unique isolation which is as sad as is beautiful. Twinkle expresses the extremely personal feeling of enlightenment. Even Tearjerker, a cover of Sakamoto’s famous song, is so intimately understood by Schumacher that it seems he could have himself written it. “When you are playing solo, you are really confronted with yourself. Your strong moments but also your weak moments, which are not necessarily your worst moments. There is something very beautiful about your fragility - that's often the starting point for magical outcomes,” he says “it's a really intense thing to play solo.” https://www.highresaudio.com/en/album/view/mtv3pa/pascal-schumacher-sol
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