Label: Room40

ジャズ、ワールド ミュージック、実験音楽を統合した独創的アプローチを展開、2013年にはAustralian Art Orchestraの芸術監督にも任命された、オーストラリアのトランペッター/作曲家/サウンドアーティストPeter Knight。水と風にインスパイアされ制作した4曲編成の2025年アルバム[For a Moment the Sky Knew My Name]。自身が子供の頃に毎年夏の期間過ごしたオーストラリアの浜辺での記憶を元に、その風景や聞こえて来た音を変調トランペットでダイナミックに表現。決して心地よさだけでは無い振り切れた強度のある音像で統一。



Matte laminate and monochrome printed cover with embossing, and insert card

A Note from Peter Knight
This is music inspired by the water and the wind. By the tattoo of the insects’ beating wings and the soughing of the wattle in the sea breeze. By the dull roll of the surf and the rhythm of my breath against the pad of my feet as I walk along the sandy, leaf-littered path through the scrub to the beach. The fingers of the fire-blackened dead banksias clawing the vicious blue.

Somewhere, a peal of laughter is torn from its source and flies for a moment on the thermals rising from the baking sand.

It is the summer of 2024/25 in Australia as the ideas for this album coalesce from a dozen different threads. I’m camping with my family on Krowathunkooloong land in the south-east corner of the country. The place where I grew up. The same beach where I spent every summer through my childhood.

We swim every day in the ocean and in the late afternoons in the calm of the Yeerung River. The water, stained red brown by Melaleuca, turns my hand into a bloody ghost as I watch it sink.

This place asks questions of me about belonging, about the relationship of the body to the wind. Of memory, of history, and of forgetting. Sound braces us in the now but simultaneously connects us to the past - a porous membrane between inner and outer worlds.

I am walking up the hill behind the Yeerung with my trumpet in my backpack. Stopping to play momentarily. Trying to find a space in which I can resonate the sounds I make with those around me. The river is full from earlier rain and is threatening to break through the thin sandbank that separates its deep red pool from the gun-metal blue ocean. The heat gathers and the pulsing of the crickets intensifies.