Tania Giannouli

For those of you who ask me where they can get my new album "Transcendence" (with Tania Giannouli Ensemble, released by Rattle records, New Zealand) and who might think that NZ is very far away: :: You can order it from the music portal www.el-culto.com. European customers will have their order delivered very fast. By ordering the CD you will additionally get the full album as a download in the format of your choice in highest quality (mp3 or FLAC) :: You can pay via several ways: Bank transfer (free of charge if based in Europe), credit card, pay pal. More info here: http://www.el-culto.com/artists/tania-giannouli/transcendence

New release from Rattle records: Greek pianist/composer Tania Giannouli follows her 2012 Rattle debut (Forest Stories, with Paulo Chagas) with a recording featuring the newly formed Tania Giannouli Ensemble. With influences as diverse as contemporary classical, Greek folk music, modern jazz, world music and European avant-garde, Transcendence is an intoxicating, musically literate tour-de-force. These richly textured, beautifully balanced compositions are performed with great rigour, lyricism and passion, but above all they are strikingly honest and direct. Tania Giannouli (piano) Alexandros Botinis (cello) Guido de Flaviis (saxophones) Solis Barki (percussion, idiophones) and guest musician Giannis Notaras (drums) Transcendence 01 The Weeping Willow (4:15) 02 The Sea (7:27) 03 Sun Dance (5:29) 04 The Time Will Come (3:10) 05 Faster That Wear (3:40) 06 From Foreign Lands (6:32) 07 Obsession (5:34) 08 Mad World (8:05) 09 Untold (4:57) All compositions © Tania Giannouli, 2014 TRANSCENDENCE Tania Giannouli Ensemble Produced by Tania Giannouli Recorded by Philip Marinelis Mixed by Costas Bokos Photography by Ilias Bourgiotis Design by UnkleFranc Printing by Studio Q http://www.rattlerecords.net/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=305&category_id=1&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=999 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96XYeUjVel4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS4Jb42nIaM

For those of you who never heard about it, this is a very interesting label from New Zealand: http://rattlerecords.net Not limited to classical, world or jazz, Rattle presents artists from a variety of generic disciplines. From the densely textured guitars of Gitbox, through the evocative and primordial ambience of te taonga puoro on the albums of Hirini Melbourne, Richard Nunns, Gillian whitehead and Judy Bailey, the hand-made percussion of From Scratch, Dan Poynton’s 'gently' prepared piano, the ethnographic transcriptions of Jack Body, the Jewish/Tango influences in the work of Besser and Bravura, the 'widescreen' vistas of the Chris Mason-Battley Group, the Greek folk tonalities and dynamic emotional sweep of John Psathas, the virtuosity and grace of Michael Houstoun, the concentrated intensity of NZTrio, the poetic gospel-blues overtones of Norman Meehan and Bill Mahire, and the contemporary jazz stylings of FSH Trio, Roger Manins, Reuben Bradley, SNH Trio, Dave Lisik and Amy Rempel, the Rattle catalogue transcends boundaries of time and place. This is new music for open ears.

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From the press release: FOREST STORIES is a collection of improvised jewels performed by Greek-born pianist Tania Giannouli and Portuguese wind-player Paulo Chagas. These finely balanced pieces conjure sensual images with a vivid and painterly grace. Impressionistic, atmospheric, at times pastoral then dark and mysterious, FOREST STORIES is consistently harmonious to the ear. Tania and Paulo intuatively understand that great music is created in harmony with silence.

For those who don't know about it: http://rattlerecords.net/ Rattle records, a label from New Zealand for contemporary and jazz music.