Label: Hidden Harmony

一連のアーカイヴ作品で注目された伝説的作家の別音源が登場!!ソビエト時代にクラシック音楽の世界に没頭、その後バイオリンを学び現代音楽、フリージャズ、即興、そしてシュトックハウゼン、クセナキス、ピエールブーレーズの強い影響から、その音楽性は電子音楽までへと発展して行ったバイオリン・プレイヤーValentina Goncharova。ウクライナのShukai Recordsが2021~2022年に掛けて発表した2種のアーカイヴLPにて脚光を浴びましたが、それ以前の88年に録音されていた10曲編成の音源[OCEAN]が初LP化。89年に出版されたロシアの8CDコンピレーション[Document - New Music From Russia - The 80's]に収録された音源ですが、単独出版は今回が初であり、今回はオリジナルのオープンリールからマスターを制作、テキストと写真を掲載した16ページのブックレットを付属させた完全版で登場。











Valentina Goncharova´s 2xLP fundamental conceptual musical work released in full uncut form as part of Hidden Harmony Lost Tapes series, under catalogue number HHLTS01.
Restored and mastered from the original 6.3 mm analog tapes.
A large-scale work comprising eleven parts of varied, brooding, mystical reflection in which the author alters the instrumentation to fit both programmatic and musical character of each section.

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Liner notes:

My task is to allow the listener to penetrate deeper into the music.

The music is wholly improvisational. It has no concept in the rational sense of the word. It’s concept is purely intuitive. It presumes The Law of Analogies: “As above so below. Man is the same as the Universe. The Universe is the same as Man.” ("Emerald Tablet” by Hermes Trismegistus"). This intuition is a kind of rephrased logic which uses many more symbols which contain not only philosophical but also imaginative meanings/ visionary interpretations.

This music is a stream of consciousness in its purest form: not an imitation of a stream, as in the ‘suggestive poetry’ of the 20th century, but a stream where one flow is superimposed on another (a multilateral passage of recording). And, if we think this flow of music will be better understood under the influence of a verbal flow, then the verbal flow should also be more intuitive and associative, as objective for this short write-up you are currently reading.

Ocean did not appear within the coordinate system of logical scientific thinking of the last four centuries. It can be said that it is based on an intuitive concept of representations of the world which are captured in music figuratively. Similar to how myths were created in time immemorial with only partial support from verbal associations. Ocean is an experience of passing the Human Soul and Mind through the different states of the material world: birth, development, and achievement of perfection, transformation at the points of The Way and Silence, the manifestation of the harmony of the world (Om), which until then had remained in a latent state. It is averse to both mainstream contemporary physics and fringe scientific research. It exists outside their explanatory power.

Ocean is the source of all forms that can receive their life within time and space. Here it is. It has everything: beautiful and terrible, good and evil, self-sacrifice and betrayal. Boundless love and inspired creativity. But contact does not happen immediately. The memory of a bygone civilization is still fresh, and of the dearest things left with it.
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