QOPE - Reverie
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Label: Trptk
Cat No: TTK0074
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 20th May 2021
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About
For the adventurous TRPTK, he and his eponymous band made the album Paper Motion (TTK0006) in 2016, a production that makes ample use of electronics. He then sought musical intimacy in Nocturnal (TTK0024), a solo exercise with the musician behind the grand piano in Schiedam’s Westvest Church: a place praised for its atmosphere and acoustics. In its artistic narrative, QOPE is closely linked to the neo-classical movement with composers such as Max Richter, Jóhann Jóhannson and Nik Bärtsch. Music that seems to arise in the moment and has a kind of healing effect on the listener.
The new album Reverie (TTK0074) was recorded in the same place and follows the track of Nocturnal: meditative and often cyclical musical expressions, with a spontaneous character. QOPE is extremely critical of the adjustment of the grand piano and makes ample use of sustain, using space as a second instrument. Rarely have you heard the piano sound fade away so beautifully, for which of course the high-end recording by TRPTK engineer Brendon Heinst also guarantees. A symbiosis that leads to an irresistible musical result.
Titles like Lament, Reverie, Liminal Spaces and Running Still speak for themselves. In QOPE’s music, which is largely improvised, time literally seems to stand still: the listener is forced to clear his head and create space for new thoughts and creativity. QOPE gives, as it were, a prompt and whispers encouragement to his listeners. Something that, especially in this world that is so complicated and infested with the corona virus, is a particularly welcome artistic gesture.
Listen to the romantic You Were Not Really Here, the hopeful The Vastness of Light, the percussive Time Lapses or the exciting Underneath the Umbrella Pines. Music to let wash over you: a moment of relaxation in complicated times.
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