Introducing, by Miha Gantar

Introducing

by Miha Gantar

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	1.	To Be is to Generate 53:09
	2.	Prelude 01:44
	3.	Where Do I Go 06:32
	4.	I carry Your Heart 05:25
	5.	Since Feeling Is First 05:13
	6.	Serenade for a Captive Spirit 04:59
	7.	As Long as You’re Here 04:29
	8.	I’m Nobody! Who Are You? 03:50
	9.	The Things Left Unsaid 04:30
	10.	Am I The One? 05:04
	11.	A Song For The Quiet Ones 06:17
	12.	For Only A Moment 03:33
	13.	Memento 05:05
	14.	Bye Bye Blackbird 03:50
	15.	A Portrait of the Imaginary 53:37
	16.	Point of Departure 06:06
	17.	Point of Divergence 02:59
	18.	Point of No Return 04:43
	19.	Paradigm Shift 04:52
	20.	The Governing Bodies of Resonance 02:21
	21.	Point of Inflection 10:44
	22.	Polymorphic Realities 05:39
	23.	Unmasked, Unbound, Uncharted 06:32
	24.	Dream Sequence No. 5 - Alternate History Of The Future 30:09

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Amsterdam based Slovenian pianist and composer Miha Gantar has a very personal and very wide music vision, and the simultaneous release of several of its aspects seems logic, from the point of view of the artist but also of the listener, who is capable, this way, to achieve a complete experience of that sound world of a new, fresh, surprising and much welcomed player in the international creative music game. Each configuration (solo: “Origins of the Pure”; duo: “Songs and Serenades”; trio: “A Portrait of the Imaginary”; quartet: “Polymorphic Realities”; large ensemble: “Alternate History of the Future”) unrevels different approaches that are much more than the respective instrumentations, all of them «human and intimate» aspects of a defined aesthetic, as Nate Wooley points out in his liner notes. You can recognize the names of some participants, like Gerry Hemingway, Christian Lillinger and Axel Dorner in the quartet disc, but don’t listen to Gantar’s music starting on the basis of what you think you can recognize. The inverse audition would be more gratifying, for instance his association in duo with singer Marta Arpini, a work of pure affection, very emotional, in which melancholy and vivacity are expressions of the human spirit facing difficult circumstances. Five gems to discover.

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released June 17, 2022

Miha Gantar Solo - Piano(s)

All Music by Miha Gantar

Recorded at BIMHUIS Amsterdam between July 27th and 31st 2020 by Phillip ten Brink | Mix and Master by Paul Pouwer
Produced by Dré A. Hočevar | Executive production by Pedro Costa for Trem Azul | Design by Travassos | Mix and Master side A by Paul Pouwer | Mix and Master side B by Dave Darlington

Miha Gantar Duo

Marta Arpini voice
Miha Gantar Duo piano

All music by Miha Gantar, except track 13 (Ray Henderson, Mort Dixon) | Lyrics by Marta Arpini, except tracks 3 and 4 (E. E. Cummings), track 5 (E. Fried, translation by A. Casalegno), and track 7 (Emily Dickenson)

Recorded at POWER SOUND studio, Amsterdam, on October 22nd and 29th 2020 by Paul Power | Mix and Master by Dave Darlington
Produced by Dré A. Hočevar | Executive production by Pedro Costa for Trem Azul | Design by Travassos

Miha Gantar Trio
A portrait of the Imaginary

All music by Miha Gantar

Recorded at BIMHUIS, Amsterdam on April 5th, 6th, and 12th 2021 by Paul Pouwer | Mix and Master by Dave Darlington | Assistance to the sound engineer Philip ten Brink and Selma Kalsbeek
Produced by Dré A. Hočevar | Executive production by Pedro Costa for Trem Azul | Mix and Master by Dave Darlington | Assistance to the sound engineer Philip ten Brink and Selma Kalsbeek

Miha Gantar Quartet

Gerry Hemingway drums, percussion, harmonica, kazoo
Christian Lillinger drums
Axel Dörner trumpet, electronics
Miha Gantar piano

All music by Miha Gantar

Recorded at POWER SOUND studio, Amsterdam, September 13th and 14th 2021 by Paul Pouwer | Mix and master by Dave Darlington
Produced by Dré A. Hočevar | Executive production by Pedro Costa for Trem Azul | Mix and master by Dave Darlington

Miha Gantar Large Ensemble

Maripepa Contreras oboe
Ben van Gelder alto saxophone
Mafalda Oliveira alto saxophone
Gideon Tazelaar tenor saxophone
Joris Roelofs bass clarinet
Eric Rojas bass clarinet
Marta Vilaça flute
Peter Mullen french horn
Bruno Calvo Anillo trumpet
Alessandro Fongaro double bass
Tijs Klaassen double bass
Tristan Renfrow drums and percussion
Willem Romers drums and percussion
Miha Gantar piano

All Music by Miha Gantar

Recorded at POWER SOUND, Amsterdam, Studio between December 2020 and June 2021 by Paul Pouwer | Mix and Master by Dave Darlington | Assistance to the sound engineer Selma Kalsbeek
Produced by Dré A. Hočevar | Executive production by Pedro Costa for Trem Azul | Assistance to the sound engineer Selma Kalsbeek | Mix and Master by Dave Darlington

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