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Release Date: 2022-07-29Label: Beacon Sound
Edition of 200.Composed by Rishin Singh. Performed on the Liszt Organ, Denstedt (bei Weimar) DE; October 2020.
Organ assistants: Jakob Dietz and Bogdan Reincke.
Recorded and mixed by Adam Asnan.
Mastered by Jason Powers.
Design and artwork by Studio Bernhardt.
"Through an open-ended compositional method that allows for ample interpretation from the organist, Singh and Sturm have co-created a work...that makes full use of the unique properties of this instrument, coaxing forth scintillating, fluid drones and stacking colourful cluster chords that fill the room with dense sonic shapes. Sometimes these forceful blasts come to an abrupt end, revealing not silence but the perfumed hiss of wind still whipping through the massive metal pipes - ghosts in a very grand machine."
– Emily Pothast, The Wire Magazine
"An endless and captivating exploration of one organ's timbres and tones. Both whispered and shouted, large and small, close and far, Singh's work is both unsettling and a balm, and has invited me to reconsider pitch, consonance, dissonance, tension and release." – Clarice Jensen, artistic director of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME)
"At the invitation of composer Martin Sturm, Singh composed four pieces for the Liszt organ at Denstedt, which, inspired by the composer's 'rural organ experiments' with cantor and organist Alexander Wilhelm Gottschalg, explore the sound spectrum of this unique instrument. The approach is far less strict than that recently adopted by Éliane Radigue or members of the loose association of Stockholm composers and organ nerds such as Kali Malone or the Berlin-based Ellen Arkbro. Singh's composition and Sturm's playing respectively concede the instrument its own peculiarities and thus a ghostly life of its own. 'mewl infans' offers yet another of the numerous contemporary and forward-looking perspectives; one of the most innovative ones at that."
– Field Notes Berlin (Releases of the Month)