SELVA DE MAR – DISTRAILS

Distrails

Artist : Selva de Mar
Release Date : March 13, 2013
Label: Whatabout Music
Format : CD

Recorded and produced by Dave Bianchi at Emergency Room, Barcelona

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Distrails is the fourth album by Selva de MarThis time, the percussion, hang and cello duo interweaves itself in symphonies swathed in the voices of  Stephanie Pan and Dave Bianchi, the drums of Oriol Roca, and the deepness of Eyal Street’s bassoon. Pablo Wayne and Sasha Agranov design their classic yet more mature wakes of aquatic music on an almost imperceptible canvas of electronic arrangements from Attica that raises them, as the album title suggests, towards a sky with no other limit than the imagination of those who listen.

 

  • Sasha Agranov: cello
  • Pablo Wayne: hang, percussion
  • Mû: vocals
  • Stephanie Pan: vocals
  • Dave Bianchi: vocals
  • Eyal Street: bassoon
  • Oriol Roca: drums

 

www.selvademar.com

Press

 

Selva de Mar. Imagínenla. Cierren los ojos y caminen o naveguen por ella. ¿Cómo es una selva de mar? No lo sé pero, ¿a que suena bien? El mar inspira, la selva respira. Todos llevamos una y por ella suspiramos. ¿Cómo encontrarla? Indispensable la paz interior o, al menos, la voluntad de pacificar el alma. Respirar la selva e inspirar(se en) el mar, imponerse con gesto sereno a la hostilidad del mundo exterior y salir a caminar guiados por los sentidos. Con paso firme, pero pausado, hacia una selva de mar.

Selva de Mar. ¡Gran nombre! Pronúncienlo. ¿A que es puro deleite? Detrás de tan evocadora puesta en escena hay un compromiso indudable con la belleza que se desparrama en música, que riega el cerebro con el filtro del alma. Belleza que parece estática y que, sin embargo, se mueve, viaja, muta en sus texturas y formas como lo hace el cielo cada vez que un avión lo atraviesa, rompiendo nubes, dibujando curvas en el tapiz azul celeste. Música que celebra y se celebra con los oídos abiertos como poros tras un baño de vapor. Música que inunda el espacio, que lo llena de suaves reverberaciones para redibujarlo, para alisar las aristas y hacer respirable lo irrespirable. Una selva que grita a pleno pulmón y, sin embargo, parece susurrada por olas que no rompen rotundas sino que se deshacen en mil pequeñas caricias. Una selva a la que el mar entra templando una fría noche de invierno. Shhhhhh, la espuma de las olas. Ábrete de orejas y escucha.

Selva de Mar. Dos que son un coro de texturas y timbres, melodías y sinfonías con percusión, hang y chelo. Dos que son sinfónica con la ayuda amiga de voces, fagot, batería y electrónicas. Dos que son 133, un orfeón de individuos con el buen gusto de invertir como pequeños mecenas en una gran idea y en sí mismos, conscientes de que su dinero siembra un terreno musical de ensueño: la Selva de Mar. Carlos Pérez Cruz (October 2013)

 

Por fin nuevo disco de Selva de Mar. Desde Club Eden (Whatabout Music 2009) no sabíamos nada de este dúo mágico e inclasificable, Sasha Agramov al cello y Pablo Wayne al hang y a las percusiones.

Selva de Mar no es un grupo musical sino un acontecimiento en sí mismo, una especie de viaje por distintos paisajes de un mundo que crean sus protagonistas de manera única e irrepetible. Por este motivo, sus discos suelen ser grabaciones en directo en donde al buen hacer de Sasha y Pablo, siempre inspirados, se añade el talento de gente como Eyal Street, de la European Brandenburg Ensemble, al fagot, Oriol Roca en la batería, Mû Oli Silva y Stephanie Pan, increíbles a las voces, y Stelios Manousakis i Pandelis Diamantides en las programaciones electrónicas. Dave Bianchi, productor y cabeza visible de Whataboutmusic, canta en “Void of choices”.

Las capas de sonido se suceden, se cruzan, se entremezclan, se empujan las unas a las otras para construir cuarenta y cinco minutos de viaje por una tela de araña, trama y urdimbre hecha de música, sólo música, ni más ni menos.

El primer disco en crowdfunding y cuarto del dúo, Distrails (Whatabout Music 2013) no es un trabajo más en la carrera de Selva de Mar sino un punto de inflexión, un nuevo experimento de esta reunión de músicos excelentes en estado de gracia. Lo demostraron sobradamente en el concierto de presentación en el Centre d’Arts Santa Mónica, a quienes aprovechamos para felicitar por ceder tan magnífico espacio a la creación en directo. No hay que perdérselos. Jordi Torrent, Atiza (November 2013)

 

El cuarto álbum del dúo integrado por el chelista israelí Sasha Agranov y el intérprete de hang y percusionista Pablo Wayne da continuidad a sus creaciones artísticas, en constante movimiento, vivas y en desarrollo continuo. Composiciones contemporáneas, es aquí y ahora cuando las están llevando al disco, que escapan a las etiquetas, las formas musicales delimitadas por los estilos y que podrían solo ser encasilladas en su propio estilo. Han contado con cinco músicos invitados: el polifacético artista de Guinea Bisau Mû (voz), la estadounidense-holandesa Stephanie Pan, la israelí Eyal Street (fagot), el baterista catalán Oriol Roca, y el vocalista y letrista Dave Bianchi. Todos juntos trabajan, desarrollan e improvisan melodías, cadencias y ritmos. Por capas, sustratos, suman brillos, destellos, sonidos,… Y el nombre de Selva de Mar se adapta a la perfección, una selva exuberante de texturas en un mar oscilante que nunca será el mismo de ahora, ni el que fue ni el que será. Música en continua creación sobre la base del cello como instrumento clásico, y el hang como novedoso instrumento de percusión, al que se añaden por estratos el resto de los músicos. Los Sonidos del Planeta Azul (August 2014)

 

Distrails és el quart disc de Selva de Mar, que veu la llum gràcies a un centenar de mecenes que li han donat suport a través d’una campanya de micromecenatge. El duet de percussió, hang i violoncel format per Pablo Wayne i Sasha Agranov fila melodies rimades per les veus de Mû, Stephanie Pan i Dave Bianchi, amb la incorporació de la bateria d’Oriol Roca i el fagot d’Eyal Streett. Una ració de música aquàtica. Enderrock Magazine (November 2013)

SHAANAN STREETT – TOVA (A GOOD PROJECT)

Tova (A Good Project)

Artist : Shaanán Streett
Release Date : March 2, 2014
Label : The Eighth Note
Format : CD

Recorded and produced by Dave Bianchi at Emergency Room Studios, Barcelona

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Album notes from Shaannan Strett:

 

“I first started writing this project in august of 2005, three short months after my sister’s death. I remember clearly how terrible I was feeling, how drained of optimism and hope I was. I also remember, that upon sharing my feelings of emptiness and despair with those closest to me, the common reply would usually be that the only thing that can really help me with my pain – is time. It was for this reason that I started writing “the good project”. I started writing so i could see if everyone around me was right. if time can really assist in easing ones’ pain. In order to make my “experiment” a “scientific” one, I set myself rules- one poem per month. no more, no less. I managed to obey my rules throughout (almost) an entire year. I wrote, and the time passed. The time passed, and I wrote. Month after month the poems appeared august, september, october… and “the good project” started unfolding before my eyes…
A short while after completing the poetry part of the project, it dawned on me that i should try and get these poems composed. and so I did. I worked alongside three of my favorite living Israeli musicians (Shlomi Shaban, Berry Saharoff and Chava Alberstein) for approximately 2 more years until i finally had sketches of all twelve songs. to be honest, by this time I was rather satisfied. I was happy with the poems and I was happy with the songs they had become. I felt no need to go ahead and record them properly, “the songs are doing just fine in my computer” I thought to myself. “I like them just the way they are”, but fate decided to intervene.
In late 2011 the young sister of my friend and colleague was found dead in her apartment. While trying to condole him, and searching for words, I heard myself say that the only thing that can really help, is time. It was at that moment I realized that “the good project” must be recorded.
The recording of “the good project” took place in The Emergency Room studio in Barcelona during march of 2013 under the supervision of the incredible Dave Bianchi. Musicians from various nations took part in the recordings.

It is my belief that the outcome, though being a testimony of my personal tragedy, may prove to assist many others who have lost a loved one.”

 

  • Shaannan Strett: vocals
  • Arecio Smith: keyboards
  • Oriol Roca: drums
  • Miguel Serna: double bass, electric bass
  • Lisa Bause: violin
  • Tal Ben Ari: vocals
  • Nick Talvola: trumpet
  • Marc Mena: trumpet
  • Sasha Agranov: violoncello
  • Mathieu Aupitre: saxophone
  • Pablo Wayne: percussion
  • Marteen Swaan: vocals, guitar
  • Dudush Klemes: keyboards
  • Shlomi Alon: flute

 

shaananstreett.com

Press

 

Tova – A Good Project is a lot more than just a rap album, it is a living testimony of the journey that Shaanan Streett (the author) went through in the year after his young sister died from cancer.

Shaanan Streett is an israeli singer and song writer. He is the lead singer of the israeli successful band – ‘Hadag Nahash‘. ‘Tova – A Good Project’ his is second solo album, and the first one to be in english.

I heard about ‘Tovaa – A Good Project’ from a friend, I knew that it is about his personal struggle after his sister death. But I had to hear the powerful emotional texts to really understand what the album is about.

Shaanan described the album as an experiment to see if time can indeed ease the pain like he was told after her death. In the third month since her death he decided to write one song every month for a year. After he was finished writing all the songs he composed them along with some other famous and respectable israeli artists, such as Shlomi Shaban, Berry Saharoff and Chava Alberstein. It took another two years until he had the sketches for all the songs. But only after he found him self comforting his friend, by saying that ‘the time will ease the pain’. he decided to record it in a studio and export it as an album. the album released on february 2014, almost nine years after his sister death.

The album contain 12 songs, that were written each month for a year except april, instead there are early may and late may. And it’s cover representing his sister were gone from his family but her memories still remain. (they were three brothers and a sister)

You can truly feel Shaanan’s pain with emotional lyrics such as – ‘i realize that memories with missing details are like memories that are destined to be doomed’ (August) and ‘optimism seems to slip between my fingers like soap’ (July).

Shaanan truly evolving during the album, at the beginning of the album he is melancholy and having hard time dealing with his sister death ‘i bury myself with work pile it on stretch myself to the limit 18,19 hour days’ (september), ‘paranoid scared frightened terrified’ (october) and by the end of the album he is may not be happy, but he feels in control – ‘At least I know I can cope’ (July).

During the making of the album, two music video were released for the two singles – July and February.

I highly recommends this album. It is an unique combination between deep, emotional and painful lyrics to interesting composition decisions.You should defiantly hear this album. Yeerful (December 2014)

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