fides krucker & tim motzer – vanishing live in toronto march 15&16
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Fides Krucker & Tim Motzer – Vanishing (1k043)
Vanishing is the transcendent, cinematic, and utterly beguiling debut album from Toronto avant-garde vocalist
Fides Krucker and guitarist Tim Motzer. This duo first improvised together in Toronto in 2017 at the Theatre Centre; seven months later they created an album’s worth of material in Philadelphia. The six pieces on Vanishing come off as a book of short stories—vocal stories—conjured through the deeply connected musical conversation between Krucker and Motzer. The artists think of these spontaneous compositions as worlds that might have been, worlds that hint at what we’ve lost, worlds in which to disappear. Sonic films.
Vanishing will be released in Canada on March 15th and 16th, 2019 at the Burdock in Toronto, with both artists performing live. This past December their U.S. launch was an intimate, illuminating event at the Areté Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.
Fides Krucker – voice
Tim Motzer – acoustic-electric guitar, sampler, electronics, bow
Jeremy Carlstedt – drums, metals (2, 5)
Track listing:
1 Scintilla 2 Vanishing 3 Ruins 4 Rime 5 Density 6 Eema
The album’s first track, Scintilla, unfolds tiny emotional fragments of grief and longing while Ruins uses made-up language to evoke disappeared cultures. Vanishing moves through waves of melancholy, each repetition leaving an inky imprint, brush to paper. In Rime fragile breath traces the most tender of ice formations, vocal cord barely touching vocal cord, eventually opening into a wetland of vibration. Density’s thickening texture broods on the state of the world, gathers weight with each motif, steps the listener outside of civilized sound. For Eema, the final track, Krucker’s improvisation is treated in real-time by Motzer’s electronics and loops. Layer by layer, the voice is processed and altered, and the resulting world responded to by Krucker until the initial proposition is no longer recognizable. Throughout Motzer’s bowed and prepared guitar creates orchestral densities of sound, subtly nuanced chords, melodic clusters, and even percussion à la guitar body itself, perfectly supporting the voice. The effect of this album is that of “two spirits sailing around each other in dream-like currents” (Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery Newsletter, NYC). It will pull you under and, with time, these discreet improvisations promise to open vast worlds of sound to the listener. A universe of voice. A coherence of storytelling.
about FIDES KRUCKER
Fides Krucker is an innovative interpreter and creator of vocal music in Canada and abroad. She founded the interdisciplinary performance ensemble URGE; their fifth and final work was published by Playwrights Canada in 2015. Her company, Good Hair Day Productions created and produced the groundbreaking lyric-theatre pieces: Girl With No Door On Her Mouth (Bartley/Carson); CP Salon, an r n’ b love and disability show with Kazumi Tsuruoka, now an NFB film; Julie Sits Waiting (Dufort/Walmsley), a sexual catastrophe, electroacoustic opera nominated for five Doras; and In This Body, an emotional landscape of Canadian pop songs by women sung by Fides and danced by Peggy Baker, Laurence Lemieux and Heidi Strauss. It premiered at Canadian Stage last season and a CD featuring musicians Rob Clutton, Tania Gill and Germaine Liu is available through fideskrucker.com. Fides has collaborated extensively with Peggy Baker Dance Projects composing vocal scores for the dancers of land/body/breath (at the AGO and National Gallery), locus plot and phase space, for which she received a composition award. She sang like a mermaid for both the theatre production and recording of DIVE (Nik Beeson/Richard Sanger.) Her recording of Berio’s Folk Songs with Vancouver’s Turning Point Ensemble was recently released on the European label Orlando and her performance was noted for its “blazing theatricality and playful brilliance.” Fides teaches voice at Humber College and facilitates vocal work for a wide range of Toronto artists as well as Chicago’s Walkabout Theater. She is editing the final draft of her book, Good Girls Don’t Sing, initially researched through a Chalmers’ Arts Fellowship.
about TIM MOTZER
After 20 years of world touring, five solo albums, and stunning collaborations including over 80 albums of credits, Tim Motzer continues to “traverse manifold territories in music (Guitar Player magazine).” Tim is widely known for his distinct textural acoustic-electro guitar voice utilizing looping, bowing, electronics, and prepared techniques. From 2016-18, Tim toured the world playing prestigious venues and jazz festivals with Bandit65, an improvising trio he co-leads with guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel and drummer Gintas Janusonis. He has also collaborated with numerous musical luminaries including David Sylvian, Burnt Friedman, Jaki Liebezeit, poet Ursula Rucker, King Britt, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Vernon Reid, David Torn, Markus Reuter, and Pat Mastelotto, among others. Tim’s work has appeared in the hit HBO series True Blood as well as a major motion picture directed by Michael Mann. As an in-demand, solo live composer/improviser in the world of modern dance, Tim most recently playing to sold-out houses in Tokyo, Japan; Seoul, South Korea; Oujda, Morocco; Philadelphia, PA; and Toronto, Canada. For nearly a decade, he has served as a live accompanist for master choreographers at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Tim brings his dynamic, eclectic array of musical projects together under his own 1k Recordings imprint, which has over 40 releases and counting. For full credits, visit http://1krecordings.com/artists/tim-motzer/
Recorded by Tim Motzer at 1k studio, Philadelphia August 2017
Mixed by Tim Motzer and Fides Krucker August 2018
Assistant engineers: Jeff Chestek, Eric Bogacz
Mastered by Eric Bogacz at Spice House, Philadelphia
Photography: Avraham Bank, Baltimore
Design: Yesim Tosuner, Backyard Design, Toronto
© 2019 & ℗ 2019 1k Recordings music by fides krucker and tim motzer
published by one k music co. (bmi)
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