Apart from being job-hunting, I was immersed in discovering classical music (songs and performances I didn't know), and then I found out that my dog was sick and had to take care of him...
I haven't listened to this album at all, so I'm behind on blogging.
A lifetime is short and our mission is to make sense of it by filling the space provided to us with meaning. As I reflect on the different theads that create the fabric of our new recording Song of Fate, I realise - to my own surprise - that in many ways, this project revolves around the notion of "Jewishness".
It might be inspired by my recent , renowned reflections onthe fate of my father Markus Kremer , who lost 35 family members in the ghetto of Riga - his first wife and their 1.5-year-old daughter among them - during the terror of the Nazi regime. I've started to look at it from a different perspective now, also recalling my father's emotional outbursts in my childhood and his constant feeling of guilt. He must have carried it with him all his life, for he survived, but was not able to convince his wife and daughter to flee from the ghetto like him - leaving them there to their tragic fate.
But there are also factors beyond this notion,in which I undeniably feel my roots. I am marked by the fact that my mother and her family were of German-Swedish desent, in addition to the "Baltics" being yet another significant branch of my family tree.
Having been born in Latvia, and considering Baltic music as a core component of Kremerata Baltica - the ensemble I founded 26 years ago - and having cooperated with so many wonderful artists and composers from this region : how could it be otherwise?
This programme is meant to speak to everybody, reminding us of tragic fates along the way and that we each have a "voice" that deserves to be heard and listened to. In collaboration with my colleagues, friends and the recording team, and thanks to my longstanding relationship with ECM and Manfred Eicher, we have created this sequence of music in hope that it carries a meaning listeners may "recognise" and even identify with. Gidon Kremer
For the past few years, I've been fascinated by the tones of stringed instruments (guitars, violins, cellos, harps, pianos, etc.), but even though I'm not really interested in new rock releases anymore, I was drawn in by this kind of music.
I've been listening to his voice for over 10 years, but I've never been able to fall in love with it over and over again.
As usual, I can't hear the lyrics or understand the meaning.
It's been two years since my last film music album, and even though my interest in movies and TV dramas has taken a backseat, I'm once again intrigued by the question of whether the image comes first or the sound comes first.
Yeah, I don't know if I'm going to bother signing up for Netflix and watching "TOP BOY".
It all depends on whether I can listen to this album and become absorbed in it.