Naldjorlak, by Éliane Radigue

Naldjorlak

by Éliane Radigue

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Double-CD album with custom packaging and screen printing by Alan Sherry. Includes extensive liner notes by Gascia Ouzounian, Éliane Radigue, and Charles Curtis, and a reproduction of Radigue's never-before-published original drawing of Naldjorlak.

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	1.	Naldjorlak (Paris, 2006) 58:58
	2.	Naldjorlak (Los Angeles, 2020) 55:30
	3.	Naldjorlak (Los Angeles, 2020) (excerpt) 12:35

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Saltern presents a thrilling new live recording of Naldjorlak for solo cello, composer Éliane Radigue’s first piece for an acoustic instrument, paired with a remastered version of the long out-of-print, original 2006 recording. Composed in 2005 in close collaboration with cellist Charles Curtis, Naldjorlak marked a striking shift in the music of Radigue, who has since composed exclusively for instrumentalists with her celebrated Occam series. This album brings together two complete performances by Curtis, recorded nearly 15 years apart (Paris in 2006 and Los Angeles in 2020), drawing attention to the evolution of the piece and to its inherent mutability. The sound and spirit of Naldjorlak are centered around the re-tuning of the entire cello to the wolf tone, a uniquely unstable frequency, creating a haunting, almost feedback-like resonance within the instrument itself.

From Gascia Ouzounian’s liner notes: “Even as it expands conceptions of what sound is, and thus what music can be, to understand Naldjorlak only as music would be to limit its scope. It is music, but it is also physics and philosophy. Naldjorlak is a detailed investigation of the physical properties of resonating bodies and dynamic systems; it is a meditation on the condition of instability; it is a metaphysics of chaos and uncertainty.”

"In bringing these recordings together, the album presents the composition as a living, breathing document, illustrating how Radigue’s music embraces time’s unpredictability in both structure and performance." —Vanessa Ague, Pitchfork

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released May 5, 2023

Produced by Tashi Wada
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu

Naldjorlak (Paris, 2006)
Recorded on September 18, 2006, at Église de Notre-Dame de Bon Secours, Paris
Recorded by Daniel Deshays

Naldjorlak (Los Angeles, 2020)
Recorded live on February 16, 2020, at LAXART, Los Angeles, California
Recorded by Tashi Wada

The Paris 2006 recording was originally released in 2008 as shiiin 3 and is reissued here in collaboration with shiiin.

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