Don't Hide From What You Seek
by David Rothenberg, Bernhard Wöstheinrich, Ali Sayah
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Throughout their careers, these three musicians have repeatedly broken with traditions. For this album, Bernhard Wöstheinrich, David Rothenberg, and Ali Sayah are now looking to renegotiate the balance between the old and the new. 'Don't Hide From What You Seek' blends classical Iranian scales with crisp electronics, atmospheric jazz, and references to ambient and krautrock.
It was David Rothenberg who suggested the idea for the trio in 2022. He never intended it to be particularly conceptual: Virtual synthesizers and a laptop blended with piano notes and the Persian tar, acoustic instruments collided with live sequencing. Recorded “on a nice day in May,” the album wasn't born from huge ambitions but the idea of simply trying out this unique sound world. In fact, Wöstheinrich and Sayah had never met before the recording of the first album.
Don't Hide From What You Seek follows in its predecessor's footsteps. Again, Rothenberg refused to discuss any patterns, processes or themes before the sessions. Again, the musicians met up at the Berlin studios of electro-classical fusion project Brandt/Brauer/Frick for a day of improvisations. Again, the springtime date – almost to the day a year after the debut – contributed to the relaxed moods of these tracks.
And yet, the new Homayoun material feels both more hands-on and experimental at the same time: “We wanted to take things in a more contemplative and minimal direction,” Wöstheinrich remembers, “On a more recent live gig in Munich we actually went even further in that direction.” They also made full use of the studio's array of vintage keyboards, gear and acoustic instruments for a more open, spacious sound occasionally pierced by rich, resonant bass lines.
So is Don't Hide From What You Seek part of the long dialogue between the East and the West through music? Probably not. Track titles reference Persian poetry and that may be a better context for appreciating the album. This is music that suspends time, music beyond categories. It may play with tradition, but ultimately, it is only part of a single one: Its own.
- Tobias Fischer
www.15questions.net
It was David Rothenberg who suggested the idea for the trio in 2022. He never intended it to be particularly conceptual: Virtual synthesizers and a laptop blended with piano notes and the Persian tar, acoustic instruments collided with live sequencing. Recorded “on a nice day in May,” the album wasn't born from huge ambitions but the idea of simply trying out this unique sound world. In fact, Wöstheinrich and Sayah had never met before the recording of the first album.
Don't Hide From What You Seek follows in its predecessor's footsteps. Again, Rothenberg refused to discuss any patterns, processes or themes before the sessions. Again, the musicians met up at the Berlin studios of electro-classical fusion project Brandt/Brauer/Frick for a day of improvisations. Again, the springtime date – almost to the day a year after the debut – contributed to the relaxed moods of these tracks.
And yet, the new Homayoun material feels both more hands-on and experimental at the same time: “We wanted to take things in a more contemplative and minimal direction,” Wöstheinrich remembers, “On a more recent live gig in Munich we actually went even further in that direction.” They also made full use of the studio's array of vintage keyboards, gear and acoustic instruments for a more open, spacious sound occasionally pierced by rich, resonant bass lines.
So is Don't Hide From What You Seek part of the long dialogue between the East and the West through music? Probably not. Track titles reference Persian poetry and that may be a better context for appreciating the album. This is music that suspends time, music beyond categories. It may play with tradition, but ultimately, it is only part of a single one: Its own.
- Tobias Fischer
www.15questions.net
credits
released May 7, 2024
Bernhard Wöstheinrich: Piano, Keyboards, Virtual synthesizers
David Rothenberg: Clarinet, Bass clarinet, and iPad
Ali Sayah: Bass and Tar
Recorded by Jan Brauer
Mixed, produced and mastered by David Rothenberg
Artwork by Ali Sayah
Bernhard Wöstheinrich: Piano, Keyboards, Virtual synthesizers
David Rothenberg: Clarinet, Bass clarinet, and iPad
Ali Sayah: Bass and Tar
Recorded by Jan Brauer
Mixed, produced and mastered by David Rothenberg
Artwork by Ali Sayah
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Bernhard Wöstheinrich Berlin, Germany
Bernhard Wöstheinrich elicits meaning from abstraction in electronic music and painting. He has studied graphic design and
has created an eclectic body of work in both graphics and music.
Bernhard speaks in his own musical voice; the musical arc of his work often moves from the curiously beautiful to the beautifully curious.
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