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ESCUTCHEON for organ

by Blake Hargreaves

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  • A 34 page, 8.5 x 11 full colour glossy scrapbook, featuring photos, artwork and ephemera from my travels in Hungary and Serbia recording pipe organs for this album. A perfect companion to the CD or download.

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1.
Fantasy at Mattyas Church at Buda Castle 04:09
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2.
Fanfare at Fasori Református Templom, Budapest 04:00
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3.
Cakewalk at Páduai Szent Antal Templom, Budapest 02:16
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4.
Scherzo at Szabadkai Szent Teréz Székesegyház, Szbadka 04:40
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5.
Rhapsody at Fogadalmi Templom, Szeged 11:23
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6.
Rhapsody at Esztergomi bazilika, Esztergom 16:19
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about

"Rhapsody at Fogadalmi Templom, Szeged" has been featured in the new short film "Cold Merirdian" by Peter Strickland. The film is currently featured on Mubi.

This piece of music, and the whole album, is the result of weeks of intensive practicing and training in the art of improvisation on the pipe organ in Budapest. After my training I recorded hours of improvising on pipe organs I encountered travelling across Hungary and Serbia, hoping to catch a moment when an unrehearsed, totally original piece of music came out fully formed with a beginning, middle, and end, theme development, and drama.

It finally happened in my last days in Hungary, when I traveled with my professor and his students to the southern city of Szeged. The Votive Church in the University square has a multi-division organ, complete with an echo division in the cupola, which can be heard to beautiful effect at 1:50, and in the final phrase.

Inspired by rhythmic figures in Paul Hindemith's first Piano Sonata, and by the structure of Jean Langlais' "Poem of Life". An earlier experiment with this form can be heard on the great organ at the basilica of Esztergom, the third largest pipe organ in Europe, with an incredible reverberation time of nine seconds.

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released June 6, 2016

Cover Photo: Dora Nedeczky

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Releases include:

Ultra Eczema (be)

Olde English Spelling Bee (usa)

Not Not Fun (usa)

American Tapes (usa)

AA Records (usa)

Ecstatic Peace! (usa)

Electronic Music Foundation (usa)

Inyrdisk (can)

Galerie Pache (fra)

Bum Tapes (uk)

Spanish Magic (aus)

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