Ways Of My Hands, by Elisabeth Harnik

Ways Of My Hands

by Elisabeth Harnik

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1.	Every time he punched a hole [to Conlon Nancarrow] 08:26	buy track
2.	Ragged 03:41	buy track
3.	From jaw to ear 05:39	buy track
4.	As the crow flies north [to Jeanne Lee] 05:34	buy track
5.	Flow and construction [to Anthony Braxton] Part 1 03:36	buy track
6.	Flow and construction [to Anthony Braxton] Part 2 07:48	buy track
7.	Flow and construction [to Anthony Braxton] Part 3 08:12	buy track
8.	Flow and construction [to Anthony Braxton] Part 4 05:06	buy track

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"Ways Of My Hand suggests another side of Harnik. Her improvisations transform instantly into compositions that reflect her intimate and deep knowledge of the many histories of jazz, avant-garde, art rock and improvised music of the last century and distill her strong, idiosyncratic voice. The five compositions were recorded in September and December 2015.
The opening “Every Time He Punched A Hole [To Conlon Nancarrow]” refers to scholar Robert Wiley’s saying about the American composer (1912-1997). Every time that Nancarrow punched the notes for his player piano études “the world got more interesting”. Harnik plays her prepared piano and not the mechanical player piano but manages to create a similar, dramatic and quite enigmatic sense of hyper-kinetic energy. The short pieces “Ragged” and “From jaw to ear” suggest the bold and methodical manner in which Harnik reconstructs and re-invents the tonal range of the piano, exploring his wooden body timbral qualities as extending the percussive sounds of its strings.
“As The Crow Flies North [To Jeanne Lee]”, Harnik emotional homage to the American vocalist-poet-composer (1939-2000), is an almost silent meditation on fragile, transparent sounds and overtones. The four-parts suite “Flow And Construction [To Anthony Braxton]” is, naturally, the most complex composition here. The fractured, rhythmical and melodic elements of this suite may flow in an erratic, eccentric ways but do gravitate into delicate, arresting structures with their own, inner logic and fascinating architecture, expressing a myriad of sounds, feelings and textures, from soft and gentle to the rough and dense ones. A true, masterful work of art."

Review by Eyal Hareuveni (The Free Jazz Collective)
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released January 1, 2018

Track 1/2/3/4 recorded at Reiterkaserne, Graz, Austria in September 2015
“Flow and construction” recorded in concert at CUBUS, Graz, Austria in December 2015

Artwork– Nicola Guazzaloca
Mastered – Iztok Zupan
Mixed – Heimo Puschnigg
Music – Elisabeth Harnik
Producer – Elisabeth Harnik
Recorded – Alexander Stankovski (tracks: 5 to 8), Heimo Puschnigg (tracks: 1 to 4)

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