released June 26, 2018
Musicians:
Jordan Young, alto sax
Sean Moran, guitar
Hyuna Park, piano
Harry Miller, piano & keyboards
Luca Rosenfeld, upright & electric bass
Evan Lawrence, electric bass
Gary Fogel, drums
Misia Vessio, drums
Rosdeli Marte, voice
Anja-Christin Nielsen, spoken word narration on “Flokken og skuggen”
Peter Karl, engineer
Douglass Recording
Brooklyn, NY
Music for Dance in Three Movements – recorded March 3, 2017
1. Eternal
2. Love Dance
3. Two as One
Featuring:
Bill Stevens, flugelhorn
Hyuna Park, piano
Luca Rosenfeld, upright bass
Gary Fogel, drums
Luba Ash, choreographer
Dancers
Samantha Bajor
Alex Haskins
Producer – Dexter Buell
Camera 1: Chris Jost
Camera 2: Justin A. Rodriguez
Camera 3: Ansel Combs
Production Manager & Lighting Designer – Andre Vasquez
Frank Sinatra School of the Arts
Tony Bennett Concert Hall
Gideon Frankel, Principal
Assistant Lighting Designer – Thomas Jenkeleit
Assistant Projection Designer – Sarah Leal
Laura Salzberg, visual art
Written for Laura Salzberg for our 25th wedding anniversary (June 9, 1993 – June 9, 2018)
AK Dolven – Please Return – recorded April 21, 2018
4. how to reach every corner
2012
Oil on aluminum
125 x 250 cm
5. don’t worry I’ll lift the sky
2012
Oil on aluminum
125 x 250 cm
6. teenagers lifting the sky
2014
Oil on aluminum
125 x 500 cm
AK Dolven (b. 1953, Oslo) Lives and works in London and Lofoten, Norway. Dolven’s practice involves a variety of media; painting, photography, performance, installation, film and sound. Recurring themes in her extensive production are the representation of natural forces and their deep resonance with human sensibilities. Her work alternates between the monumental and the minimal, the universal and the intimate, resonating with concepts and structures beyond the confines of any particular piece. Interpersonal relations and interactions are central to her practice, and many of her performance-based works involve collaborations with other artists.
Featuring:
Bill Stevens, trumpet & flugelhorn
Jordan Young, alto sax
Harry Miller, piano & keyboards
Luca Rosenfeld, upright & electric bass
Misia Vessio, drums
Eldrid Lunden – Flokken og skuggen (The Flock and the Shadow), 2003 – recorded February 3 & 24, 2018
7. Shadow and Light
8. Between Earth and Sky
9. Out of Silence
10. Continuity and Change
11. Through Dreams, Through Time
The poetic work of Eldrid Lunden is some of the most important, not only in Norway, but also in a Nordic context. Her status as a writer has been strengthened by her position as director of Creative Studies at Bo in Telemark. Norway’s first academic writing academy, established on her initiative in the 1980’s. Her influence on the younger generation of writers is enormous, not only as a poet, but also as a mentor and experienced reader.
Translations - Flokken og skuggen:
1.
The danger suddenly disappeared. My
Shadow came back into my body
2.
Bin Laden, Bin Laden, Bin Laden … buzzing in the silent September woods
The small sound icing through is not a new mobile phone.
It’s a bird, I think, and notice my head turning slowly following its thought
Bin laden, bin Laden, bin Laden … summer det I
den stille septemberskogen
den vesle lyden som isar
igjennom er lkkje ein ny type mobiltelefon. Det er
ein fugl, tenker ego g merkar hovudet snu seg
langsamt etter sin tanke
3.
The picture of a gray unmoving man with two unusually low slung and long dogs appears in the autumn field
This is out of place, I think and instinctively look for something lush and green to fix my gaze on.
My eyes glide over the golden treetops on the hill, while I beg Van Gogh’s birds to stay away and not turn up live above the field to demolest the text entirely … entirely?
Bildet a vein gra, urorleg mann med
to uvanleg og lange kjem til syne
i haustakeren
Dette er malplassert, tenker eg og leitar uvilkarleg
etter noe frogig gront a feste blikket pa. Blikket glir
over dei gylne trekronene pa bakkekammen, mens
eg ber van Goghs fuglar om a halde seg borte
og ikkje dukke opp over akeren live og
demolesterere teksten fullstendig … fullstendig?
4.
November
Damp glare the bare trees. And the small animal suddenly scrambling to the top among the branches
November
Fuktig moylys
Det nakne treet. Og det vesle dyret
som plutseleg fer til topps
mellom greinene
5.
Something is shining inexplicably. Between unblossomed shadows rustling along the paths. In the cool eye that moves the eye. We have long suspected this. That we at some time will reach a point where we cannot quite distinguish the contemporary from everything that is contemporary. Winter may set it.
Noe skin uforklarleg. Mellom avblmostea skuggar
som raslar langs stiane. I det kjolege auget som
rorer auget. Og vi har lenge ant det. At vi ein gong
skal na eit punkt der vi ikkje riktig maktar a skilje
det samtidige fra alt some r samtidig. Vintern kan
komme
6.
Nature is anonymous.
Birth and death are names unsecured in the last life
Naturen er ein anonym
Fodsel og dod er namnlause i vare liv
7.
The universe watching us in great movement in their anonymity.
Spring light through the branches, suddenly and completely, without meaning we hear not anything than this.
Det universelle ser pa oss med stor bevegelse
i sin anonymitet
Varlyset igjennom greinene, plutseleg og heilt
utan betydning
Vi har ikkje noe anna enn dette
8.
Emptiness
is something we can only talk about
from somewhere outside the emptiness
emptiness does not exist
in its natural
condition
In the atmosphere emptiness will
immediately
be invaded by what surrounds it
If we think this sounds abstract
we can set up an emptiness
on the lawn and see
what happens
Tomheit
er noe vi berre kan snake om
fra ein stad utanfor tomheita
Tomheit finst ikkje
i naturleg
tilstand
I atmosfaeren vil tomrommet
oyeblikkeleg
invaderast av det som ligg omkring
Syns vi dette hoyrest abstract ut
kan vi opprette eit tomrom
pa plenen og sja
kva som skjer
Featuring:
Bill Stevens – trumpet, flugelhorn & electric trumpet
Jordan Young, alto sax
Sean Moran, guitar
Harry Miller, piano & keyboards
Evan Lawrence, electric bass
Misia Vessio, drums
Rosdeli Marte, voice
Anja-Christin Nielsen, spoken word narration
Engineer: Peter Karl – Douglass Recording, Brooklyn, NY
All compositions by Bill Stevens, Selim Music Publishing (BMI)
Produced by Bill Stevens
Design Concept, Bill Stevens
Manufactured and Printed by Discmakers, Pennsauken, NJ, USA
Cover Artwork – Into Silence
Laura Salzberg
Acrylic and Graphite on Board
20” x 16”
July/2017
www.laurasalzberg.com
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