Chris Jarrett
New Journeys
2014
CD, atrius records
"I have only very seldom had the opportunity to play the organ. Outside of two solo pieces which I performed once, and an organ part in my oratorio "Salvations 3?" I have - until now - had little contact with the instrument at all. On the 11th of July, 2014 I began a new journey, experimenting with the improvisational possibilities of the Beckerath organ in Herxheim, Germany. There was no music written on the papers in front of me - just the numbers of some of the stops I had chosen to use during the several rehearsals I had had before the concert. At least 80 percent of the music was never played before - a small part of it I had tried out on the organ during my "test-rehearsals" and decided to reuse it during the performance. Bon voyage."
Chris Jarrett (3.09.14)
"Es währt aber nicht lange, und schon entsteht eine Tour de Force, apokalyptische Klangballungen, musikalische Gewaltakte - aber auch höchste Sensibilität. Absolut freie Improvisationen sind das, aus dem Moment heraus, oft zur Vielstimmigkeit ausgebaut, mit zahllosen Zitaten und Anspielungen angereichert - und doch buchstäblich dem Augenblick entsprungen. Ein logischer musikalischer Fluss zieht sich durch die 'neue Reise' mit endloser schöpferischer Fantasie."
Die Rheinpfalz, Ludwigshafen
