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KODJABASHIA, NIKOLA — Explosion of a Memory
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"Performed by the Macedonian Symphony Orchestra with Balkan electro legend Kiril Dzajkovski, Chris Cutler (percussion), Nikola Kodjbashia (prepared piano), Patric Driver and Valere Novarina (readers). Text fragments are by Heiner Muller and Valere Novarina.
A four-dimensional explosion in which stretches of Baroque, folk themes and Byzantine liturgy exist contemporaneously with modern and post-modern materials - much as strata emerge where tectonic plates fold one time over another settling eventually into long, beautiful, tonal stretches, lighter than air, that drift and attenuate to reveal, dreamily, the old simplicities. Immersive, timeless and unmistakably new, this music respects but definitively breaks with existing schools to explore instead its own geographically unique influences and contradictions.
Explosion of a Memory is a homage to my literary heroes: James Joyce, Heiner Muller, Valere Novarina, William Gibson, Euripides and Colin Teevan; its also a deeply personal epic about the complex relationship between childhood myths, history and perpetual homecoming. NK
NIKOLA KODJABASHIA is one of the Balkans most respected and award winning composers. Born into a musical family in Skopje in 1970, he pursued his compositional studies with Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Anatol Vieru, Gyrgy Kurtg, and Rolf Gehlhaar. In the UK, he has scored and conducted music for numerous plays, including Sir Peter Halls Bacchae at the National Theatre, Walter Meieryohanns Internationally acclaimed Kafkas Monkey at Londons Young Vic, Wedding Day of the Cromagnons for the Soho Theatre, Helter Skelter/Land of the Dead and Monsier Ibrahim and the flowers of the Quran for the Bush Theatre, and Jonathan Kents award winning Hecuba at the Donmar warehouse, Covent Garden. He is responsible for the music and sound-design for various BBC TV documentaries and his film compositions include Damianovskis Dance with Me and Green Pages (Chicago Film Festival Award, UK premire at Glastonbury Film stage, 2007).
His earlier ReR release, Reveries of the Solitary Walker was hailed by John Walters in The Guardian as probably the best record of the year." [full label press release]
www.rermegacorp.com
A four-dimensional explosion in which stretches of Baroque, folk themes and Byzantine liturgy exist contemporaneously with modern and post-modern materials - much as strata emerge where tectonic plates fold one time over another settling eventually into long, beautiful, tonal stretches, lighter than air, that drift and attenuate to reveal, dreamily, the old simplicities. Immersive, timeless and unmistakably new, this music respects but definitively breaks with existing schools to explore instead its own geographically unique influences and contradictions.
Explosion of a Memory is a homage to my literary heroes: James Joyce, Heiner Muller, Valere Novarina, William Gibson, Euripides and Colin Teevan; its also a deeply personal epic about the complex relationship between childhood myths, history and perpetual homecoming. NK
NIKOLA KODJABASHIA is one of the Balkans most respected and award winning composers. Born into a musical family in Skopje in 1970, he pursued his compositional studies with Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Anatol Vieru, Gyrgy Kurtg, and Rolf Gehlhaar. In the UK, he has scored and conducted music for numerous plays, including Sir Peter Halls Bacchae at the National Theatre, Walter Meieryohanns Internationally acclaimed Kafkas Monkey at Londons Young Vic, Wedding Day of the Cromagnons for the Soho Theatre, Helter Skelter/Land of the Dead and Monsier Ibrahim and the flowers of the Quran for the Bush Theatre, and Jonathan Kents award winning Hecuba at the Donmar warehouse, Covent Garden. He is responsible for the music and sound-design for various BBC TV documentaries and his film compositions include Damianovskis Dance with Me and Green Pages (Chicago Film Festival Award, UK premire at Glastonbury Film stage, 2007).
His earlier ReR release, Reveries of the Solitary Walker was hailed by John Walters in The Guardian as probably the best record of the year." [full label press release]
www.rermegacorp.com