No. 5, by christina vantzou

No. 5

by christina vantzou

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1.	Enter 03:40		buy track
2.	Greeting 02:02		buy track
3.	Distance 00:49		buy track
4.	Reclining Figures 02:45		buy track
5.	Red Eel Dream 04:03		buy track
6.	Dance Rehearsal 01:35		buy track
7.	Kimona I 03:59	lyrics	buy track
Kimona Aleidy Genesis Laetitia Edwin
8.	Tongue Shaped Rock 03:22 video		buy track
9.	Memory of Future Melody 05:08		buy track
10.	Kimona II 06:22	lyrics	buy track
Kimona Aleidy Genesis Laetitia Edwin
11.	Surreal Presence (for SH and FM) 02:57 video		buy track

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While on the island of Syros in the Aegean Sea for a film festival performance, Christina Vantzou experienced what she characterized as “a moment of focus” – a specific vision for the sprawl of raw recordings she’d been amassing for her fifth album. Upon relocating to the Cycladic island of Ano Koufonisi she situated herself outside at a patio table with a laptop and headphones, taking brief breaks to swim, and began the “reductive process” of shaving and shaping the source material into uneasy but lyrical movements, alternately austere and adorned with strange inflections: glottal groaning, cavernous water, glittering eddies of modular synth, languorous silences. Mixing the pieces herself without outsourcing to an engineer compounded the intimacy and autobiographical dimension of the music; she refers to No. 5 as “almost like a first album.”

Drawing on sessions staged in February 2020, Vantzou’s editing instincts emphasize process and isolation, spotlighting resonance and restraint, liquidity and long tails. Fleeting configurations of piano, wind, strings, synthetics, and field recordings, these are spaces as much as compositions, surreal grottos of shifting light, suffused with a sense of invisible divinity. Although 17 musicians appear on the record, the proceedings feel minimalist and malleable, sculpted from interstitial moments and oblique synchronicities. The definition of a composer as “one who joins things” is here both plumbed and proven; Vantzou describes No. 5 as “a letting go,” a place of “soft borders,” unfixed and undefinable.

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released November 11, 2022

composed edited & mixed by Christina Vantzou

voice: Lieselot De Wilde
piano / harp / violin: Margaret Hermant
voice / clarinet: Holland Andrews
electronics: Heinrich Mueller
synthesizers: John Also Bennett
bass clarinet: Ben Bertrand
cello: Vincent Werbrouck
keyboards / electronics: Ruben Benabou 
viola: Neil Leiter
theremin: Beatrijs De Klerck
seaboard / electronics: Francesco Donadello
cave drips field recording: Ben Rivers
synthesis / electronics / field recordings: Christina Vantzou

No. 5 was recorded by Christine Verschorren at Jet Studio, Brussels assisted by Thibault Dupont

Mastered by Heba Kadry

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christina vantzou is a composer who deals with time expansion,
atmospheres, harmonies, and the affects that arise from them, with electronics, acoustic instruments, field recordings and voice.

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