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Liederkreis II

by Judith Berkson

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Monotonfin 02:49
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Castle 03:38
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Harpers 03:03
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NeuDeux 02:52
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Suns 02:26
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Bundt 02:25
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Der Kreuzzug 04:32

about

Cassettes of this album can be purchased through Judith here:
liederkreis.bandcamp.com/album/liederkreis-ii-2

Judith Berkson, a composer, singer, and pianist based in NYC, has been honing her Liederkreis project since 2016, which features electronically-augmented vocal interpretations of lieder by such composers as Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann, as well as purely electronic pieces engaging noise and feedback-oriented vignettes. This new release finds Judith continuing a more song-oriented approach, as previously explored on her 2010 ECM release Oylam. The pieces contained on Liederkreis II are deeply haunting, timbrally sensuous, and a notably divergent aesthetic for Notice Recordings. Judith is taking her electronically-processed vocals and conforming them to the slowly dripping, contorted melodies of Schubert and Schumann’s lieder, firmly within the lineage of such artists as Klaus Nomi and Kraftwerk. Liederkreis II exists as a commentary of a hypermodern relationship with classical music: both an admiration and a recontextualisation. This is music that is at once both personal and emotional, and formal and mechanical. It is both beautiful and anxious. It is within this contrast that the album retains such an alluring presence, and we are honored to facilitate its existence.


Reviews:

Vanessa Ague/The Wire
ibb.co/TbY2T3Q

Graham Rickson/The Arts Desk
theartsdesk.com/classical-music/classical-cds-two-bass-drums-three-oranges-and-seven-symphonies

Seth Colter Walls/New York Times
nytimes.com/2021/08/26/arts/things-to-do-this-weekend.html

Anna Heflin/Which Sinfonia
whichsinfonia.com/on-not-killing-the-music-with-judith-berkson/

Frans de Waard/Vital Weekly
vitalweekly.net/1311.html

credits

released May 31, 2021

Liederkreis - voice, electronics, synthesizer

Recorded and mastered at Menegroth the Thousand Caves by Colin Marston. Woodhaven, Queens, New York

Castle is an interpretation of Liederkreis op. 39 No. 7 Auf einer Burg by Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Doppelgänger, Harpers, Suns, Der Kreuzzug are interpretations of lieder by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Thank you to Franz, Franke, Sigmund, Saul, Robert and Clara and Joseph Gabriel Esther Maneri

Artwork by E. Lindorff-Ellery
"Relaxing in the Desert Under an Overcast Sky in the Sunset", 2020
evanlindorffellery.com

Letterpress printed by Small Fires Press, New Orleans
smallfirespress.com

Video for Der Doppelgänger directed by Alec Coiro
aleccoiro.com

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Notice Recordings Kingston, New York

Notice Recordings started in Chicago in 2009. We are now based in Kingston, NY, and Columbia, MO. We release experimental and contemporary sound works. Notice Recordings is run by Evan Lindorff-Ellery (NY) and Travis Bird (MO).

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