Music for Isolation Volume II, by Music For Isolation

Music for Isolation Volume II

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1.	Above The Midnight Sky 03:42	info	buy track
2.	Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu 02:25	info	buy track
3.	My Bonny Boy 04:22	info	buy track
4.	2nd Theme, 4th Mvt. Concerto for Orchestra 03:58	info	buy track
5.	Vecchie Letrose 01:26	info	buy track
6.	Red Sky At Night / Coda 04:10	info	buy track
7.	Nagasaki Bura Bura Bushi 08:14	info	buy track
8.	Les Écureuils 01:04	info	buy track
9.	Bryn Calfaria 02:23	info	buy track

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1. Above the Midnight Sky (Gideon Juckes)

...when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.
(Ptolemy)

星々が巡る無数の軌跡を心おきなく辿っているとき
私の足はもはや大地に触れていない
クラウディオス・プトレマイオス

2. Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu (Traditional Icelandic, Jon Ásgeirsson, arr. Gideon Juckes)

Based on “Verses by Rosa of Vatnsendi”, written by the Icelandic poet Rósa Guðmundsdóttir in the 1800s.

"I miss you more than anyone
tired of the flood of tears
oh, if only we had never met
my dear beloved friend"

1800年代、アイスランド出身の詩人Rósa Guðmundsdóttirの作品 “Verses by Rósa of Vatnsendi” に基づく。

“あなたに会いたくて寂しい。
涙の洪水にうんざりしている。
ああ、もしも出会わなかったとしたら。
私の最愛の友人。”

3. My Bonny Boy (Traditional English, arr. Gideon Juckes)

This British folk song was first collected in the South of England almost 300 years ago, but is certainly far older.

"I once loved a boy, a bonny, bonny boy
And I loved him, I will vow and protest.
I loved him so well, so very, very well,
That I built him a bower on my breast."

このイギリスの民謡はおよそ300年前にイギリス南部で収集されたが、おそらくさらに昔から存在する作品である。

“私はかつて、美しい男の子を愛していました。
私は彼を愛しました。私は誓い、断言します。
私は彼をとても愛していました。
だから私は私の胸に、彼のための木陰を作りました。”

4. 2nd Theme, 4th Movement, Concerto For Orchestra (Béla Bartók, arr. Gideon Juckes)

During to the 1918 influenza pandemic which infected 500 million people globally, the great Hungarian composer Béla Bartók was bedridden for 23 days. He suffered an acute inflammation of the ear, which had to be operated on. Bartók was intrigued, as for a while afterwards, anything he heard played on the piano sounded three notes higher than normal.

1918年、世界中で5億人が感染したインフルエンザの流行により、ハンガリーの偉大な作曲家Béla Bartókは23日間に及ぶ寝たきりの生活を送った。
耳の急性炎症に苦しんだ彼は手術を受けなければならなかったが、その後しばらくの間ピアノで弾いた音が通常より3音高く聞こえ、とても興味をそそられたという。

5. Vecchie Letrose (Adrian Willaert, arr. Gideon Juckes)

Written in 1545 by the Maestro di cappella at St Mark's in Venice,
“Vecchie Letrose” is a musical hate letter to the old ladies of Naples.

1545年、ヴェネツィアのサンマルコ寺院でMaestro di cappellaによって書かれた“Vecchie Letrose”。歌詞にはナポリの老婦人への悪口が並んでおり、いわば音楽的な憎悪の手紙である。

6. Red Sky at Night / Coda (Gideon Juckes / Aaron Copland arr. Gideon Juckes)

Red sky at night,
sailor’s delight.
Red sky at morning,
sailor’s warning.

(Old British proverb)

The coda from the ballet Appalachian Spring was composed by the American composer Aaron Copland in 1945.

"The Bride takes her place among her neighbors. The couple are left quiet and strong in their new house."

夜の赤い空、
船乗りの喜び。
朝の赤い空、
船乗りへの警告。

（イギリスの諺より）

1945年にアメリカの作曲家 Aaron Coplandによって作曲されたバレエ作品”アパラチアの春”のコーダ部分を、楽曲の後半に引用した。

”隣人に囲まれる花嫁。夫婦は新しい家で、力強く静かな気持ちを抱く"

7. Nagasaki Bura Bura Bushi (Japanese Traditional, arr. Gideon Juckes)

A traditional tatami room Min'yo folksong from Edo period Nagasaki. Over 40 verses, the lyrics mention many things;
the celebration of a good harvest, but also the arrival of foreign ships.
Walking around and hanging out is also mentioned a lot as a form of satire, criticising the social restrictions on the general
public at that time.

長崎県に伝わる民謡。お座敷歌として江戸時代から明治時代にかけて歌われ、賑やかな長崎の街の様子や名物、情景のみならず、そこに暮らす人々の喜怒哀楽をも歌った歌詞は40節を超えるという。
長崎出身の朗らかなミュージシャン達からインスピレーションを受け、Music for Isolationの視点からアプローチを行った一曲。

8. Les Écureuils (Pierre-Max Dubois, arr. Rie Takeuchi)

Pierre-Max Dubois (1930-1995) was a French composer and student of Darius Milhaud. "By nature I am impulsive, but there is a hidden part of me which is certainly more serious."

フランスの作曲家 Pierre-Max Dubois(1930-1995)がアルトサクソフォンとピアノのために作曲した。
"りす"と名付けられたこの曲は、Dubois本人が語った "元来、私は直情的である。しかしそんな私の中に、隠されたシリアスな部分が存在する” という言葉の通り、可愛らしいフレーズの中に隠されたシリアスな要素が光る一曲。

9. Bryn Calfaria (William Owen, arr. Rie Takeuchi)

Bryn Calfaria (On Calvary Hill) is a Welsh hymn tune written by William Owen in the mid 1800s.
It is reputed to have been originally written by Owen on a piece of slate whilst on his way to work at the Dorothea Quarry in Gwynedd, North Wales.

Bryn Calfaria（カルバリーの丘）は、1800年代半ばにWilliamOwenによって書かれたウェールズの賛美歌である。
もともとは、彼がドロテア採石場（北ウェールズ、グウィネズ）で働きながら、採石された細い石の一片に書いたといわれている。

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released May 7, 2021

Rie Takeuchi - baritone saxophone
Gideon Juckes - tuba
Produced by Gideon Juckes & Rie Takeuchi
Mixed & Mastered by Gideon Juckes
Cover Design by Gideon Juckes
Poetry Translation by Nao Suzuki
Cover Image "Unidentified man (ambrotype)" (ca.1875) John Thomas, National Library of Wales
Jasrac R-2130240
©2021 GURURIYOZA RECORDS

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Music For Isolation Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo-based duo of Rie Takeuchi (baritone saxophone) & Gideon Juckes (tuba)

★★★★ “a thoroughly absorbing experience…gently resolute in its dark tonality even as it releases you ever further from a tethered sense of time and place. The tracks echo with haunting thoughts of loss and faded memories…superbly realised”
(Iwan Fox, 4barsrest)
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