Hub Hildenbrand, guitarist and composer from Berlin, calls his new CD, "Heimat," an "audio film." It could hardly be described better. The associative music and sensual soundscapes heard here go far beyond the usual concept of a trio ensemble. Hildenbrand deserves unreserved praise for the courage to create this acoustic kaleidoscope, for the sheer boundless imagination that makes this cycle of artful instrumental short stories possible.
Hildenbrand is a jazz guitarist, but on this recording he avoids the typical clichés of the genre, instead indulging his penchant for oriental sounds. The result is a musical concept unprecedented: jazzy openness, spirited outbursts, collective improvisations, sound collages, and long melodic arches intoned jointly by guitar, bass, and oud, harmoniously combining with pictorial motifs, alienated instrumental sounds, shimmering sound sculptures, mystical ostinati, and oriental microtonality. 'Heimat' tells a story, a dream, a life journey. This recording is a Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art) that uses structural means of modern film—flashbacks, overlaps, montages, dream sequences—to imbue the music with such tangible multidimensionality that one surrenders to the listening pleasure with fascination and emerges from the experience strengthened and inspired.
01 input
02 departure
03 Sleep, my little prince
04 Interlude (Part 1)
05 Don't turn around
06 Space
07 On the Day of Homecoming
08 Interlude (Part 2)
09 Bayushki, bayu
10 Song of a German Mother
11 He returns.../Sleep, little child sleep
12 The silk-merchant's daughter
13 What was
14 In a circle
15 Over
16 War
17 The last one turns off the light
18 Early departure
19 What a wonderful world
20 String Sextet No. 1
