Kontai Ensemble - Music As a Mirror - VINYL LP

The music of contemporary composer Sophia Jani is characterized by it's great independence from structures and conventions as well as by it's musical poetry within a minimalist approach. Her debut album InchMusic as a MirrorInch presents works for woodwind quintet, string quartet and piano. In the largely male environment with this album Sophia Jani aims to take a different perspective and position as a unique female voice. Sophia Jani's music lives from influences of various artists of all times and nations from Bach and Schubert to the European and American avant-garde of the 20th and 21st century, to avant-pop artists like Bjo¨rk and Ryuichi Sakamoto, or electronic music producers such as Tim Hecker, Laurel Halo or Skee Mask. In this way, she creates music that spans a dramaturgical arc while suspending any sense of time - calm, powerful, elegant, dance-like. Thus she finds a poetic minimalism that takes it's listeners by the hand and imaginatively and cleverly opens a new horizon. Album Tracks 1. The Dark and the Light and Everything in Between 2. Woodwind Quintet No.1 Music As a Mirror 3. Everybody Was So Young I 4. Everybody Was So Young II 5. String Quartet No. 1 See, the Grass Is Full of Stars I. Introduction 6. String Quartet No. 1 See, the Grass Is Full of Stars II. Meditation 7. String Quartet No. 1 See, the Grass Is Full of Stars III. Intermezzo I 8. String Quartet No. 1 See, the Grass Is Full of Stars IV. Pocco Più Mosso 9. String Quartet No. 1 See, the Grass Is Full of Stars V. Reminiscenza 10. String Quartet No. 1 See, the Grass Is Full of Stars VI. Intermezzo II 11. String Quartet No. 1 See, the Grass Is Full of Stars VII. Coda 12. Andrà