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FORESTS

by John Eckhardt

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  • Eight pieces / 113 minutes of music for four double basses, recorded as played by John Eckhardt

    Wooden USB flash drive with 24bit/96khZ audio, 200 digital forest photographies with a slide show app, texts

    Polystyrol box with other organic material from the forest of Staksund, Sweden; wall mounting

    Limited, signed and numbered edition of 250

    Listen to excerpts and find more information on www.johneckhardt.de/forests

    Includes unlimited streaming of FORESTS via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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      €75 EUR

     

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Plus 200 digital forest photographies by John Eckhardt with a slide show app, texts on music & making. Listen to excerpts and find more information on www.johneckhardt.de/forests
    Purchasable with gift card

      €15 EUR

     

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01 cedri 12:42
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02 xylotope 10:45
3.
03 nemora 13:31
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04 fungi 16:21
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06 geophyte 09:07
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07 noominous 24:44
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08 aeål 15:45

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In special unity of form and content, „Forests“ presents John Eckhardt’s latest ventures into a secret realm of bass, space & time. After his pioneering, widely acclaimed solo-bass CD „Xylobiont“ on Evan Parker’s PSI imprint, on „Forests“ John Eckhardt perpetuates his passionate contemplation of the manifold physical and musical nature of his 120 year old sound device.

In nearly two hours of music for four double basses, developed by means of overdubbing, he takes the listener to unknown sounding forests and woodlands. In extended, organically branching and often dramatic pieces, he keeps seeking out places where smallest fluctuations in perception and in the connection of body and instrument are crucial. As in other projects of Eckhardt’s, polarities of observation and action, intuition and planning, atmosphere and detail are combined so continuously and intensely until something else emerges, and starts a life of its own…

Together with two hundred of John Eckhardt’s forest photographies and texts about music and making, the music is provided on a wooden USB memory stick. It is lying in a transparent box with moss, lichens, bark and other forest material. As the photography, it comes from Staksund, the Swedish forest land of the Eckhardt family, which John frequently visits.

Listen to excerpts and find more information on www.johneckhardt.de/forests

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released January 1, 2015

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Depth of Field - The music of John Eckhardt Hamburg, Germany

BASS, SPACE & TIME

“if we don’t start to cherish and practice variety, and see how deeply everything connects, we’re gonna fry in hell all together soon!”

John Eckhardt is testing the limits of being a bassist on planet earth in the 21st century, working towards a broader vision of what bass always was and can become in the future. A hunter-gatherer navigating a wondrous, branching sonic forest.
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